Pressure selling tactics ruled to be illegal
Emma Sleep taken to court for failing to address CMA concerns A High Court order has confirmed that Emma Sleep, a mattress seller, behaved illegally and broke consumer law by using misleading countdown timers, false ‘high demand’ messages and ‘discount claims’. Concerns were raised about Emma Sleep in 2022 over behaviour that misled shoppers and […]
The Close Company Crackdown: Navigating HMRC’s New “Anti-Evasion” Reporting Burdens
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has issued a matter-of-fact warning to owner-managed businesses regarding HMRC’s escalating drive toward blanket data collection. In its official response to the government’s latest consultation on “close companies” (businesses controlled by five or fewer participators, which includes the vast majority of family-run SMEs), the ICAEW […]