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Fairfax County has proposed major changes to its sign approval process that will add another public hearing and impose new requirements for properties seeking additional signage.

The due date for filing the required information return for a tax-exempt organization is just around the corner. Returns for the 2010 calendar taxable year are due May 15, 2011 unless an organization files a request for extension.

The anticorruption world is an ever-changing place these days, with an increasing number of countries enacting new or revised anticorruption regimes designed to strengthen prohibitions against bribery and other corrupt activities.

The EC is currently investigating under the State aid rules tax ruling practices in Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium.

On Monday 17 March 2014 the Council of the European Union adopted sanctions against 21 Russian and Ukrainian individuals.

The European Parliament, by a large majority, passed the draft Network & Information Security directive.

The ongoing globalisation of business, and ever more accessible technology, allows personal data to be transferred anywhere in the world.

The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has published the results of a survey of UK companies identifying the competition law compliance measures that they adopt.

On 15 March 2012 the UK Government finally published its plans to amend the UK competition law regime.

On 19 March 2015, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that an association of estate and lettings agents, three of its members and a newspaper publisher had admitted breaching competition law.

It is always assumed that sentences in the US for any crime are significantly higher than they are in the UK, but nowhere is this more starkly exemplified than in white collar crime.

Following a period of consultation, a written ministerial statement was released yesterday, 6 December 2011, regarding the taxation of non-domiciled individuals and the proposed new statutory residence test, both of which were announced by the Treasury in Budget 2011.

On Oct. 6, 2010, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced proposed modifications to its "Green Guides," guidelines originally issued in 1992 to help marketers avoid making misleading environmental claims.

On Jan. 21, 2011, the Federal Trade Commission announced the revised thresholds for premerger filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR Act).

On Sept. 20, 2012, a court sentenced AU Optronics, a Taiwanese manufacturer of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, and its U.S. subsidiary to pay a $500 million criminal fine for its participation in a five-year conspiracy to fix the prices of TFT-LCD panels sold worldwide.

Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) formally published the revised thresholds for premerger filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act).

On Nov. 27, 2013, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean H. Lane, overseeing the bankruptcy of AMR Corporation, American Airlines’ parent company, approved a settlement that resolved regulatory objections and paved the way for the merger between AMR and U.S. Airways.

For the first time, a district court has ordered disgorgement as a remedy for a Sherman Act violation. On Feb. 2, 2011, a court entered a consent order approving a $12 million profit disgorgement settlement between the U.S.