Employer’s tax tips: Van or car?
Ray Chidell of Mazars Neville Russell provides AccountingWEB readers with the latest in his series of bulletins on employer-related tax issues. Ray is author of the P11D Handbook and offers employers a free, regular e-mailed tax advice bulletin, Employer Tax Update (ETU). To get on the mailing list for his free bulletins, simply send an […]
Employers’ tax tips: Company Car Fuel
Ray Chidell of Mazars Neville Russell provides TaxZone readers with the latest in his series of bulletins on employer-related tax issues. Ray is author of the P11D Handbook and offers employers a free, regular e-mailed tax advice bulletin, Employer Tax Update (ETU). To get on the mailing list for his free bulletins, simply send an […]
Employers’ tax planning: employee’s late night travel
Ray Chidell of Mazars Neville Russell provides AccountingWEB/TaxZone readers with the latest in his series of bulletins on employer-related tax issues. Ray is author of the P11D Handbook (available from ABG, tel 020 7920 8991) and offers employers a free, regular e-mailed tax advice bulletin, Employer Tax Update (ETU). To get on the mailing list […]
Company cars: Insider tips from First Vehicle Leasing
An experienced player in the leasing market, Andy Bell, was on hand to explain how the fleet vehicle market works and how you can set deals up to your best advantage. The workshop covered alternatives to the company car, such as employees opting for a personal purchase contract.{John Stokdyk} Welcome Andy, Obviously everyone here is […]
Company car policy: get it into gear
Fleet managers need to provide company car users with clear rules about the allocation and use of a vehicle owned by the employer. This could also include light commercial vans and larger vehicles.Compact Law is offering AccountingWEB readers a formal policy document, drawn up by lawyers to help employers manage their vehicles and ensure that […]
The new company car regime: factsheets for employees
Ray Chidell of Mazars Neville Russell provides TaxZone readers with the latest in his series of bulletins on employer-related tax issues. Ray is author of the P11D Handbook and the abg book on company cars. He offers employers a free, regular e-mailed tax advice bulletin, Employer Tax Update (ETU). To get on the mailing list […]
Tax guide to using employee’s car on employer’s business
Ray Chidell of Mazars Neville Russell provides TaxZone readers with the latest in his series of bulletins on employer-related tax issues. Ray is author of the P11D Handbook and the abg book on company cars. He offers employers a free, regular e-mailed tax advice bulletin, Employer Tax Update (ETU). To get on the mailing list […]
Company car tax under the new regime
a href=”http://www.taxzone.co.uk”>Ray Chidell of Mazars Neville Russell has written a book on the new emissions-based car tax scheme with his co-author Alison Sampson. In the workshop he explains many of its nuances and deals with some frequently asked questions.Introduction(Gary Mackley-Smith) Welcome to the first tax workshop for August 2001. This week Ray Chidell, author of […]
Most workers are dissatisfied
More than half of Britons are dissatisfied with their job and salary is their greatest gripe according to research by Alliance and Lecester.Just over half (51 per cent) of private sector employees who are unhappy with their job cite low pay as their biggest grumble, and more than a quarter of dissatisfied staff (28 per […]
Workers on holiday find it difficult to forget the office
According to a new study by Office Angels, going on the annual summer holiday is giving rise to Summer Office Withdrawal (S.O.W) syndrome among office workers. , , the UK’s leading secretarial and office support recruitment consultancy. 86% of employees claim that in the first few days of a holiday, they find it difficult to […]
Employers warn that further rights for temp workers will damage job market
A CBI survey claims that a draft EU directive on temporary agency work would cause 57 per cent of firms to offer fewer temp assignments. The EU directive proposes giving agency workers rights to the same pay and conditions as full-time staff in the organisation where they temp. Most significantly, it forces host firms to […]
Many employees are dissatisfied with working hours
According to research done by National Statistics, about 5.4 million workers in the UK (nearly one in five) would prefer to change their working hours, with most wanting to work shorter hours for less pay. The full results are published in Labout Market Trends.The autumn 2001 Labour Force Survey found there were 2.979 million workers […]
School’s out – but dad’s in!
The Government has launched a new initiative to encourage fathers to spend more time with their sons. The Dads & Sons ‘Give an Hour’ scheme to be launched by Minster for Young People and Learning Stephen Twigg today, aims to encourage companies to support fathers in helping their sons with their education. Electronics retailler Comet […]
HR Zone Any Answers Digest #13 – Best and worst managers… benchmarking rewards… Data Protection… diversity
================================================================= HR ZONE Any Answers Digest – Issue 13 Tuesday 6 August 2002 http://www.hrzone.co.uk/anyanswers/ ================================================================= ********** THIS WEEK’S TOPICS ***** THIS WEEK’S TOPICS ********** Leadership and diversity… Benchmarking reward packages… Data Protection Training… Best and worst managers… Running inductions… ********** THIS WEEK’S TOPICS ***** THIS WEEK’S TOPICS ********** Motiva Corporate Development —————————————————————- Leadership development experts […]
DTI offers help on understanding and implementation of employment law
New Government measures to help firms understand and implement employment regulations are to be introduced by– Piloting free or subsidised employment law advice visits to employers of less than 50 employees– Running a number of pilot schemes giving a shared HR resource to small firms– Consulting on how harmonising start dates for domestic regulations could […]
Know your board members by their cars
Watson Wyatt’s 2002 UK Compensation Report gives an insight into the lives of the UK’s senior executives. It indicates that the E-Class Mercedes is the most popular car among UK Group Chief Executives, followed by the BMW 5-Series and the Jaguar XJ6. Perhaps living up to popular stereotypes, BMW 5-Series are most favoured by both […]
DTI guide to Fixed Term Working Regulations
The DTI has provided a Guide to the Fixed Term Working (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations, which will come into force in October 2002.
TUC slates executive pay awards
Responding to a recent survey on executive pay, TUC General Secretary John Monks said: “With such excessive pay packages for company directors it is becoming clear to staff that ‘there’s one rule for us and one rule for them’. Indeed, the obscene pay offs for directors leaving failing companies is more like throwing ‘good money […]
Company car resource centre
Our sister site AccountingWeb has assembled a number of useful resources to help you through the company car tax regime. Latest update: Get the lowdown on the tax implications of London's congestion charging scheme here. Contents Car tax table and guideSee this popular brief guide to the new regime written by experts Deloitte & […]
Spam invasion eats up time and space
Unsolicited email, or “spam”, is becoming a major drain for UK business by using up employee time, bandwidth and storage space, according to resarch by MessageLabs.The UK survey reveals that on average 15% of emails received per day contain spam – about one in seven. It also shows the problem of spam is here to […]
