Six Tips For Keeping Your Business Safe Online

Technology has transformed the modern workplace. From remote working to cloud-based apps and systems, more businesses than ever, including small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), are harnessing the power of the Internet and digital technologies to improve productivity, boost efficiency and maintain business continuity. While innovation has made universal access to the workplace possible from anywhere […]

Regulatory Agenda for February 2020

To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a short regulatory update. Since our last update in January, the UK left the EU, with certain legislation coming into effect. This includes the GDPR we have become familiar with disappearing from the statute book and the Data Protection, Privacy […]

Why should businesses take action on mental health? Download the guide

Around one in four adults in the UK experience mental health issues. These problems can often be exacerbated by work. The problem is that the vast majority of mental health training solutions require onsite, day-long, classroom-based external sessions that require a significant time and cost investment. Only the largest or most progressive companies can afford […]

Britain’s Favourite Office Snacks – The ULTIMATE Ranking

It’s a conversation that sparks disagreement in the office time and time again, but the debate can finally be put to rest. Here at DeltaNet International, we’ve pulled data from more than 60 ‘top UK snack’ rankings to devise the list to end all lists. The ULTIMATE snack ranking, if you will. The Results The full […]

Omnitrack version 2.5.0

Automated Reminders A big question in DAC6 is how to make sure matters are not falling through the cracks. At matter intake the partner won’t have all the details of the transaction and there needs to be a way to trigger the DAC6 review at a later time. As a solution to this we have […]

DAC6 Legislation – A Guide to UK Implementation

Register for our DAC6 email updates Following engagement with relevant parties for over a year, together with a written consultation document and review period, HMRC laid their DAC6 Regulations before Parliament on 13 January 2020 under the International Tax Enforcement (Disclosable Arrangements) Regulations 2020, Statutory Instrument 2020 No. 25. However, trawling the Directive, the consultation […]

HMRC answers questions from leading firms on DAC6 implementation and reporting

Register for our DAC6 email updates On Wednesday 29 January, over 50 leading international firms joined us for our third DAC6 core group meeting. During the meeting, our panel, which included HMRC’s Policy Lead for DAC6, took questions from our 100-strong audience to try to make sense of the Directive and fill in some missing […]

Upcoming changes to trusts under the Fifth Directive

Details of the extension of the trust registration service under the Fifth Directive On 24 January 2020, HMRC launched their promised technical consultation on changes to the Trust Registration Service (TRS) to be made under the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive. The changes will focus on the registration requirements of all UK and many non-EU resident […]

How to improve wellbeing at work

With new research showing that poor mental health costs UK employers £45 billion a year, now more than ever is the time to take action on wellbeing. Mental health-related problems for businesses, including presenteeism, absences, and staff turnover, have increased 16% since Deloitte’s last survey in 2016. Changes in work practices, particularly the ‘always on’ […]

DAC6 – The biggest compliance challenge since the Bribery Act

Register for our DAC6 email updates 29 January 2020, London Over 100 people from 50 top law firms, accounting firms and banks gathered at the offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in a meeting organised by VinciWorks to fire questions at HMRC regarding the latest EU tax transparency law, DAC6. HMRC have just published legislation implementing […]