Company And Commercial Law Under The Spotlight

The Red Tape Challenge has over the past months has made a great impact on doing away or improving current legislation and regulation and is proving to be a great way for the public and firms to have their say over nuisances and matters that get in the way of doing business effectively. Running since it’s launch during April 2011, it has already looked at numerous areas of  business and now it’s the turn of Company and Commercial Law building on the Companies Act 2006, looking at areas such as the audit regime to assist small and medium sized companies as well as the approach to filing documents at Companies House.

Some of the main considerations are

-Internal workings of companies and partnerships: Rules on shares and share capital, requirement to hold information at business premises and rules on meetings and resolutions.

-Accounts and returns: The content, form and auditing requirements of financial accounts and other reports.

-Business names: The rules covering company names.

-Disclosure of company information: The regulations covering the information companies must supply to the official register.

The company law theme will run from 26th January to 16th February 2012; have your say on a wide range of issues. Read More > Red Tape Challenge

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