Microsoft faces tougher UK oversight under CMA proposal
The CMA has proposed Microsoft strategic market status, which could lead to curbs on its software bundling, with a final decision due in February.
Saturday 17 October 2026
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The CMA has proposed Microsoft strategic market status, which could lead to curbs on its software bundling, with a final decision due in February.
Intuit Sequence deal: the Nasdaq-listed group has agreed to buy the British revenue management start-up, co-founded by Riya Grover, for a reported $200m.
More than 200 employers have urged John Healey to deliver business rates reform, proposing a 2 per cent online sales levy to fund a 37 per…
The HMRC Salesforce contract, worth up to £2bn over 15 years, will move legacy tax systems onto one platform with AI tools to triage taxpayer queries.
ASML chip demand is outrunning the Dutch firm's expansion plans, with the sole EUV machine maker now looking beyond a 30 per cent capacity rise for…
Business lobby group says lifting the employer national insurance threshold from £5,000 to £6,000 would create 41,000 jobs, mostly for young workers.
Rejoining EU could add up to 6 per cent to UK output in the long run, Goldman Sachs says, as it sets out options for Andy…
Accounts for the ChatGPT owner's British subsidiary show £258m in costs for OpenAI UK staff in 2025, about £2.3m per employee including share awards.
IMF forecasts show the UK tax burden reaching a peacetime high of 41.9 per cent of GDP, the fastest rise in the West, ahead of John…
Retailers were due to use a pre-Budget retail summit with John Healey to warn that further taxes on shops would be passed on to shoppers and
Royal Mail resignations are running at almost 400 postmen a week, the CWU claims, warning of Christmas delivery delays as the postal service hires temps.
Jonathan Reynolds says decisions on Chinese EV tariffs rest on the UK interest, not EU pressure, and denies Britain is a back door to the single…
John Healey is reportedly preparing an online marketplace VAT crackdown that would make platforms such as Amazon and eBay collect tax owed by sellers.
