All Company cars articles – Page 34
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Northgate Vehicle Hire takes gold in Rospa awards
Northgate Vehicle Hire has won a Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents’ (Rospa) 2009 Award for the first time for promoting health and safety to employees and customers.The Darlington-based firm will be presented with an Occupational Health and Safety Gold Award at a ceremony at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole ...
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Jaguar Land Rover staff agree pay freeze and four day week
Staff at Jaguar Land Rover have agreed to take a pay freeze and work a four-day week in order to avoid redundancies as the motoring industry continues to be hit by falling car sales.The news follows data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) released yesterday that revealed ...
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Buyer's guide to car manufacturers (March 2009)
Corporate car sales have not fallen as much as retail sales, but the entire motor industry has been hit hard by the recession, says Nicola SullivanA number of economic and fiscal factors are currently shaping the development of the UK's company car manufacturing industry. Overall, 2008 was particularly challenging for ...
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Developments in green fleet
The stumbling blocks to employers running a green fleet have been steadily removed thanks to manufacturers' improved technology and a wealth of tax incentives, says Tom WashingtonSince the government introduced a CO2 emissions-based benefit-in-kind (BIK) tax aimed at cutting pollution in 2002, the fleet market has been slowly evolving to ...
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ING Car Lease sees rise in rentals
Fleet leasing company ING Car Lease has seen a significant rise in the number of companies using rental vehicles as a key part of their fleet management strategy. In the last year alone the fleet specialist has seen the volume of rentals it handles for both public and private sector ...
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Medicash reviews car and travel policies as part of new carbon neutral status
Liverpool based health cash plan provider Medicash has announced that it has achieved carbon neutral status.In addition to carbon offsetting Medicash is aiming to reduce its carbon footprint by a further 10% over the coming year.†To help achieve this goal the company is limiting its company car policy to vehicles ...
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Government clarifies car tax relief
The government has published a technical note that explains in detail how changes to the capital allowance regime for business fleets will take effect as part of an HM Treasury consultation on business fleet tax reforms, which closes on 27 February.The document, Modernising tax relief for business expenditure on cars: ...
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Active Risk Management launches electronic driver permit
Active Risk Management (ARM) has launched an electronic driver permit, which allows fleet managers to check if their employees are eligible to drive on company business.The online permit creates an auditable record for each driver with details of risk assessments, driver training and licence checks, which can be updated over ...
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Buyer's guide to vehicle leasing (February 2009)
Vehicle leasing offers an attractive way of cutting costs and benefiting from tax breaks, says Amanda WilkinsonIn this economic climate, populating a fleet with leased vehicles will be a more attractive option than buying them outright for many organisations.For employers trying to control costs, leasing is relatively risk free because ...
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Managing fleet risk in the public sector
New health and safety legislation will have a significant impact on fleet managers, particularly in the public sector if an organisation’s employees use their own cars for work travel, says Nic PatonMuch has been said about the need for employers to manage risk more closely after the Corporate Manslaughter and ...
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Employers taking fleet damage limitation steps
Employers are taking steps to limit their exposure to the cost of accidental damage to leased vehicles in their fleet.Almost 95% of businesses regularly receive company vehicles back at the end of the lease period with unexplained dents and scrapes, and only 5.5% of employers said all damage was explained ...
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Calls for reduced working hours to save car industry
The government faced calls for creative action such as reduced working hours to help the UK's car industry, as unions branded its £2.3bn support package as too little too late.Tony Wolley, joint general secretary of Unite the Union, suggested a government subsidised short working week would help the industry, and ...
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Buyer's guide to carbon offsetting (January 2009)
Employers can enhance their green credentials by helping staff to offset their personal carbon footprints, says Nicola SullivanCarbon offsetting enables organisations and employees to counterbalance their carbon footprint, which is usually calculated by totting up the amount of greenhouse gases produced by factors such as car journeys, flights and the ...
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Lloyds TSB's proposed merger with HBOS could create fleet giant
Lloyds TSB's proposed merger with HBOS would create the country's biggest fleet management player and rationalisation is inevitable, but there should still be plenty of competition, says Nic PatonOne of the less remarked-upon aspects of the agreed £12bn merger of Lloyds TSB and Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS), has been ...
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Morris & Spottiswood offers hybrid cars to clean up fleet
Morris & Spottiswood has cleaned up its fleet by limiting its company car selection to just two models, both of which run on environmentally-friendly hybrid fuel.The building company, which specialises in fit-outs for large retailers, housing development and maintenance, previously offered a choice of 15 diesel cars that emitted an ...
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Lloyds TSB Autolease launches online fleet calculators
Lloyds TSB Autolease has launched three free online calculator tools to help employers manage fleet costs.The calculators each focus on one area of fleet management, covering fuel bills, cash allowance takers and whole life cover costs.Fleet managers input headline figures in each category to work out the estimated annual cost ...
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HMRC announces revised advisory business mileage rates
HM Revenue and Customs has published new advisory business mileage fuel rates for company vehicles to reflect a 5% fall in petrol prices since the rates were last reviewed in July 2008.The new values are operational from 1 January 2009 for tax, national insurance contribution(NIC) and VAT purposes and offer ...
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Buyer’s guide to driver training
Driver training can help to reduce fleet costs and keep employers on the right side of the legal road, says Tom WashingtonDriver training can counteract or reduce many of the risks and costs involved in having employees on the road. It is a way for employers to fulfil their corporate ...
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Pre-Budget Report: Fuel duty to increase and vehicle excise duty reforms scaled down
Chancellor Alistair Darling has minimised the impact of vehicle excise duty reforms, but maintained his decision to increase fuel duty offsetting the 2.5% temporary decrease in value added tax (VAT).In his pre-Budget Report, the Chancellor confirmed that the planned 2p rise in fuel duty, first announced in April, will be ...
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Minimise your corporate tax on company car fleets
Executive Summary New capital allowance rules come into effect next April and all cars will be taxed according to the level of carbon dioxide they emit per kilometre. Rental disallowance will be set at a flat rate of 15% for cars emitting 160g/km or less of carbon dioxide, regardless of ...