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HMRC–New company car fuel rates
In case you’ve missed it your friendly tax man issued new advisory fuel rates from 1 December 2011. You can get to the new rates by clicking here.
Rates are due for review again in March.
Steve Clark
New guidance on workplace pension reform
The Pensions Regulator has today published an updated version of its detailed guidance on automatic enrolment and the new employer duties under pensions reform, for large employers and their advisers.
The detailed guidance, which forms part of the regulator’s suite of educational materials for all UK employers, has been updated to reflect recent legislative changes including the Pensions Act 2011 receiving official approval via Royal Assent.
Click this link to go to the Regulator’s website for more information.
Pensions in 2012–A Summary
Well 2012 has got off to a great start here at 44 Financial. We’re working with a number of individual clients on their retirement options as well as three different new corporate tenders. What a fantastic start to the Olympic year!
Conscious as ever that there is so much going on in the pensions world we always try to look out for great articles and documents that will help our clients and blog subscribers to keep up to date. Sometimes its just enough to know what’s going on at a general level so you can decide how much you need to delve into the detail.
To that end we are grateful to those legal types at SNR Denton for their Pensions 2012 article. You can click through to the article here.
As a list to know what you should be keeping an eye on it’s great. There’s brief sections on Auto-enrolment, the abolition of contracting out, gender pricing of annuities.
We hope that you find this useful. As ever if you would like to look at the implications of any of this for your own arrangements please contact us. You can click here to complete our enquiry form.
We’d love to hear from you.
Steve Clark
Back to School–Your Pensions Homework
It’s very difficult to keep up to speed with all of the issues that will arise on planet pensions in 2012.
To help your revision Eversheds have produced a really helpful Speedbrief that covers all of the main issues that lie ahead for us in 2012. You can click through to it here.
There’s no exam at the end of this homework. However, we hope you’ll find this summary useful.
Steve Clark
TUPE & Administrations
Just before we all went off for our break there were two important Employment Tribunal cases involving companies in administration.
TUPE is a minefield as it is when there is a company transaction involved. It’s easy for an employer to come a cropper. Throw into this heady mix one side that is, or has been, in administration and it’s ever more complicated.
We are, therefore, grateful to Dechert LLP for their employment law update that sets out a good summary of the cases and where we stand now in this area. You can click through to the summary here.
As always with these cases the cost of a good legal adviser is a sound investment.
Steve Clark