Employment law, self assessment penalties and motor vehicles penalties

Reviewing employment law

To make it easier for businesses to take on staff and grow, the government is reviewing employment laws and regulations and is seeking to cut as much red tape as possible.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is leading the review and is considering reforming:

• Compensation for discrimination – employers are concerned about the high levels of compensation sometimes awarded by Employment Tribunals in discrimination cases. This sometimes leads to cases being settled before they reach a Tribunal.
• Collective redundancy rules – employers are concerned the current requirement that collective redundancy consultations run for at least 90 days is hindering their ability to restructure efficiently. They also claim it’s not clear from the legislation at what point such consultations start or end.
• TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations) – Some employers see these rules as overly bureaucratic.

Source: http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1087900371&r.l1=1075193191&type=ONEOFFPAGE

New Self Assessment penalties for late filing and late payment

HMRC are changing the way they deal with people who don’t send their tax returns on time or who pay their tax late. 
The new rules mean that the more you delay the more you will pay.
The new rules will apply if, for example:

• you are late sending back your tax return for the year 2010-11 or any later tax year
• you pay the tax you owe for 2010-11 or a later year more than 30 days late

Source: http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1087547464&r.l1=1075193191&type=ONEOFFPAGE

Stay insured: new penalties for motor vehicles without insurance

The new vehicle insurance law means that the registered keeper of a vehicle must keep it insured unless they’ve made a Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN). If you’re not insured and haven’t made a SORN, you could face a penalty

From the end of June 2011 Insurance Advisory Letters (IAL) will be issued by the Motor Insurers’ Bureau to the registered keepers of uninsured vehicles. This will be following a check of the Motor Insurance Database (MID) – the UK’s central record of vehicle insurance. The IAL will advise the registered keeper that their vehicle appears to have no insurance and what actions to take to avoid receiving a fixed penalty from DVLA.

If a vehicle does not have insurance, the registered keeper could:

• receive a fixed penalty of £100
• have their vehicle wheel-clamped, impounded, or destroyed
• face a court prosecution, with a possible maximum fine of £1000

Payment of a penalty does not replace the need for motor insurance.

Source: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/Motorinsurance/DG_186696

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