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• HMRC In Line for £160 Million Windfall After Salary Sacrifice Scheme Rejected

  • Posted20 April 2012

  When a member of staff is on a temporary assignment, they are allowed to receive travel and subsistence payments (within certain limits) free of Income Tax (IT) and National Insurance...

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• Increase in Unpaid Parental Leave Postponed

  • Posted17 April 2012

  Currently, any employee who has completed one year of continuous employment and who ‘has, or expects to have responsibility, for a child’ is entitled to take up to four weeks’...

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• Companies Take Note – Dividends Can Be Proceeds of Crime

  • Posted12 April 2012

  Problems with doing ‘clean’ business in some jurisdictions are almost insurmountable, yet the Bribery Act 2010 is clear that offering inducements can easily amount to unlawful activity. It may...

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• Housing Law Changes

  • Posted11 April 2012

  The Localism Act 2011 is expected to come fully into force in April 2012 and will usher in some significant changes to social housing law. The Act will give...

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• Immigration and Work – Policy Changes Bite

  • Posted10 April 2012

  For businesspeople from outside the EU who do not have a commercial sponsor, coming to work in the UK is becoming more difficult as the Government’s policy to cut net...

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• Beware What You Say on the Web!

  • Posted5 April 2012

  The laws relating to defamation apply equally to material posted on the Internet as they do to articles in newspapers and magazines. It is therefore risky to post comments that...

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