Keeping abreast of new legislation affecting our sector of activity is important for any business owner, but it is also important to be aware of the latest developments in the field. absolutely vital for the self-employed and SMEs which often depend on these developments to survive and remain alive and active in their market.
How can we stay timely informed without having to rely on an external advisor? This is the important question we solve in today's article - read on!
As you can imagine, nowadays finding new legislation that affects your SME is impossible without the Internet. The network of networks is the most important information repository in the world, but it can also be (and is) a bottomless pit. full of fake news or fake news and news.
So, before you start searching the internet for the latest news for your small business or for your freelance activity, we suggest you take note of some such sensible and simple advice as the following two: Narrow your search and limit your sources.
Every day, countless new articles are published thousands of different legislative developments, thousands of news items with some interest for you, but reading them all would consume half of your effective working time. Avoid that excess restricting your search to three or four keywords such as, for example: Self-employed diets, Agriculture aid, hairdressing grants Madrid, changes, self-employed contributions, petrol price changes, etc..
Millions upon millions of web environments publish legislative news daily, but you cannot consult them all for the same reason as before: the weather. So, as well as narrowing down your search by limiting the number of keywords, also limits the sources of information and the automatic alert notices that arrive in your digital inbox. Don't know which web sources to choose? Don't worry. We'll discuss that in the following paragraphs.
The first web source where you can find legislative changes for your SME is the BOE, the Official State Gazette in digital format.
The llama service“Legislative Alerts”it's completely free and very easy to use. You just need to register as an authorised user on“BOE à la carte”and choose the subjects you wish to receive news about, published in both the BOE and the Official Journal of the European Union: agriculture, energy, taxation system, etc.
As well as being one of the most widely used search engines in the world, Google is also a useful tool for receive automatic alerts on legislative updates. This service is very simple to use: you just have to access the service called “Google Alerts”, choose the topic you want to receive news about, how often you want to receive these updates, etc.
Click here To see in full detail what this useful service of alerts offered for free by Google consists of.
Usually the Legislative updates that most affect SMEs These are those that happen in their locality, city, town or autonomous community. All these news items are usually covered in the Chambers of Commerce websites, public bodies we should all make more use of.
Our advice? Look up the web address of the Chamber of Commerce from your locality and enable its automatic legislative updates search service.
If you don't know where to start looking, Press here to visit the public body's general website Chamber of Commerce of Spain. There you will find not only interesting legislative developments for SMEs, Find the digital address of the Chamber of Commerce closest to your business.
