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Block management firm LRPM London is predicting this year to see a dramatic rise in leaseholders exercising their Right to Manage (RTM), where flat leaseholders to take over building management from the freeholder. This is thanks to growing awareness combined with regulatory reforms in March 2025, as well as the continued rollout of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act. Letitia Randell, chief executive of LRPM London, said: “We’re witnessing a fundamental shift in how leaseholders view their relationship with managing agents. “They’re realising they don’t have to accept poor service or inflated costs – they have the power to take…

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24 December, 2025 11 min read Share Copy Link Copied For your business, you are probably charged VAT on most of the goods and services you buy. That means charging your customers VAT, keeping VAT records and paying the VAT you’ve collected to HMRC. Read this article to learn more about VAT. Here’s what we cover: What is VAT? Value Added Tax, or VAT, is a tax applied to goods and services. Sometimes VAT is called a consumption tax, because it’s applied to end consumer purchases. It’s applied by the individual or business selling the goods or services as a…

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As its market dominance is being challenged by a host of competitors on a scale not seen before, Nvidia on Monday rolled out six new AI chips and new open models, which appear to show the AI giant is determined to stay ahead of the field.At the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, the AI hardware and software provider released the Nvidia Rubin platform, a system comprising the six new chips that collectively form an AI supercomputer. The new open generative AI models include more agent-building models in the Nemotron family and new World Foundation Models in the Cosmos…

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Key PointsDividend stocks have more than doubled the average annual return of non-payers spanning more than half a century.Though ultra-high-yield stocks — those with yields four or more times greater than the yield of the S&P 500 — are plentiful, only a select few pay a truly safe dividend. Five inexpensive, ultra-high-yield dividend stocks possess the competitive edges and catalysts necessary to deliver for income seekers in 2026.10 stocks we like better than Sirius XM ›For more than a century, stocks have stood at the top of the pedestal, in terms of annualized returns when compared to bonds, commodities, and…

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Foxconn just posted a 22% revenue spike, raking in NT$2.6 trillion ($82.6 billion) last quarter, blowing past analyst expectations of NT$2.4 trillion. The company, locally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, reported the numbers on Monday, proving that its ramped up its AI data center spending, and Foxconn, which builds servers for Nvidia, cashed in. The Taiwanese manufacturer is adding AI server capacity in Texas and Wisconsin, where it already has campuses. Nvidia’s demand is pushing suppliers like Foxconn to stay ahead of schedule, with more shipments coming every quarter. Big Tech pours billions into AI as investors debate bubble…

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Councils can now enter a property and seize documents about rental activity as part of the Renters’ Rights Act. Residential properties can be entered to investigate illegal evictions, check the condition of a property, and/or to check an investor’s landlord database registration status. Business premises meanwhile can be entered without a warrant if council officers want to gather relevant documents. William Reeve, chief executive of Goodlord, said: “May 1, 2026 may be the key date in everyone’s minds as we head into the New Year. “But in recent days we’ve seen the unofficial start of Renters’ Rights Act implementation. With…

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2 January, 2026 13 min read Share Copy Link Copied You might think holiday entitlement would be straightforward. An employee gets a certain amount of days and they take those days, but what about when an employee works irregular hours?  Or, an employee is leaving the company partway through a holiday? Holiday entitlement calculation has a lot of nuance and complexity. It’s possibly one of the more complicated parts of payroll or human resources. Believe it or not, a lot of companies unintentionally get holiday entitlement calculations wrong. In this article, we include a holiday entitlement calculator, so you can…

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Brain Chip Helps Blind People See Elon Musk says his company Neuralink is aiming to restore partial sight to fully blind patients in 2026. The company plans to test its newest and most powerful implant, Blindsight, in humans early this year. The chip will be wirelessly connected to an external video camera and implanted into the brain’s visual cortex. Bypassing the eyes, it is designed to generate the perception of vision based on what the camera captures, even for people born blind. The resulting vision will be low resolution in early tests but will hopefully get better over time, Musk…

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