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ArticleTusker gives free use of electric car to Salford City Council
This article is written by our channel sponsor, Tusker.Leading salary sacrifice car scheme provider Tusker has given Salford City Council free use of a Nissan Leaf for a year, to help promote green travel among employees.Tusker has supplied 10 Nissan Leafs to key customers around the country to dispel the ...
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100th car on StopGap scheme
This article is written by our channel sponsor, Tusker.Following the hugely successful launch of Tusker’s StopGap car scheme in 2012, providing drivers with the use of a car while they wait for their new salary sacrifice car to be delivered, the company has had to increase the size of the ...
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Closing teacher car scheme exclusion could save teachers four times as much as a 1% rise and cost government nothing
This article is written by our channel sponsor, Tusker.The government could save state-maintained school teachers £1,300 a year – over four times more than the benefits of a one per cent pay rise – and at no cost to the taxpayer.State-maintained school teachers are currently excluded from accessing salary sacrifice ...
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Tusker inspires Herts
This article is written by our channel sponsor, Tusker.Tusker struck big at the prestigious Inspiring Hertfordshire Awards on 14 May and took away the award of the night, winning Overall Business of the Year. Not satisfied with one, it also scooped up the award for Innovation through Technology. The coveted ...
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Tusker wins Best Car Scheme UK at the Business Excellence Awards
This article is written by our channel sponsor, Tusker.Tusker has won the ‘Best Car Scheme UK’ against stiff competition from some of its largest and most well-established competitors in the UK at the prestigious Business Excellence Awards, supported by Acquisition International.The Business Excellence Awards highlight and celebrate outstanding performance and ...
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ArticleEmployee Benefits 2015 Fleet research closes today
The Employee Benefits/Alphabet Fleet research 2015 closes today, so it is the last chance to have your say.What is new in staff travel policies? And how does your organisation offer car benefits for employees? Why not tell us in this research, which is designed to help you benchmark your organisation’s ...
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ArticleFleet research deadline extended
The Employee Benefits/Alphabet Fleet research 2015 deadline has been extended until Friday 29 May, so there is plenty of time to have your say.What is new in staff travel policies? And how does your organisation offer car benefits for employees? Why not tell us in this research, which is designed ...
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ArticleArup boosts benefits take up among generation Y staff
EXCLUSIVE: Arup has seen increased take up of the benefits it offers to cater for generation Y employees.The organisation takes on around 200 to 300 graduates a year, which has changed what employees want from the firm.As a result, the professional services firm has seen take up of new benefits, ...
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ArticleA guide to tax-efficient benefits
If you read nothing else, read this. .. There are a number of individual tax rules for all tax-efficient benefits. Changes to pensions and childcare vouchers affect their tax position and how employees take the benefits. New tax rules apply to employee share schemes.There is a growing list of tax- ...
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ArticleCompany car tax rates to rise more slowly
Budget 2015: Company car tax rates for ultra-low emission cars will increase more slowly from 2019/20 than previously announced. Chancellor George Osborne also announced in his 2015 Budget that rates for other cars will increase by three percentage points.The appropriate percentage of list price subject to tax will increase by ...
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ArticleSantander drives take up of salary sacrifice car scheme
Santander plans to use its benefits communications to increase take up of its salary sacrifice car scheme.Speaking in a session titled ’The evolving world of salary sacrifice cars - now and in the future’, at Employee Benefits Connect on 4 March, Elliot Rees-Davies, reward director at Santander, said that, since ...
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ArticleCarlsberg UK revamps employee benefits package
EXCLUSIVE: Carlsberg UK has undertaken a full strategic review of its employee benefits, resulting in it relaunching its flexible and voluntary benefits schemes, and consolidating its company car provision.The brewery organisation, which employs more than 40,000 people globally, launched the review in order to simplify its benefits administration and to ...
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ArticleCoventry City Council introduces salary sacrifice cars
Coventry City Council has launched a salary sacrifice car scheme for more than 7,700 eligible employees. More than 30 orders were made within the first 10 days of launch.Roadshows around the council’s premises and a website were used to help communicate and promote the scheme, which aims to help reduce ...
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ArticleRamsay Health Care launches salary sacrifice car scheme
Ramsay Health Care UK has launched a salary sacrifice car scheme for 3,000 eligible employees. The provider of independent hospital services in England will offer the scheme to staff working in 36 of its private facilities.It added the scheme to its existing benefits package to assist with attracting new employees, ...
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ArticleFuel duty to remain frozen
Autumn Statement 2014: The government has confirmed that fuel duty will continue to remain frozen. Chancellor George Osbourne cancelled the fuel duty increase planned for September in his 2014 Budget.Overall, action on fuel duty since 2011 will save a company car driver around £675 by the end of 2015/16.
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ArticleWest Middlesex Hospital saves £38,000 with pool car scheme
EXCLUSIVE: West Middlesex University Hospital has saved more than £38,000 by launching a pool car scheme.The employer introduced a Nissan Leaf electric car, provided by Alphabet, for 40 of its therapists to use to help cut the cost of taxi fares and to lower the hospital’s carbon footprint.Therapists’ taxi fares ...
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ArticleTwo-thirds of employers recognise importance of company cars
Two-thirds of employer respondents say the company car is an important employee benefit, according to research by Lex Autolease..Its Report on company motoring, which is compiled from independent surveys of more than 1,400 businesses, company car drivers and employees who use their own car for work purposes, also found that ...
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ArticleEsri UK launches car salary sacrifice scheme
Esri UK has launched a car salary sacrifice scheme for its 300 employees. The geographical mapping and analytics company’s ‘simplydriveit’ scheme, which is provided by Pendragon Contracts, enables staff to select from a list of cars with emissions capped at 130g/km to meet the organisation’s environmental targetsPendragon Contracts has also ...
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Article?TRL launches car salary sacrifice scheme
The UK’s Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) has launched a salary sacrifice car scheme for its employees. Through the scheme, which is provided by Leasedrive, employees at the transport innovation, research and advice company will be able to sacrifice some of their salary in exchange for a new car, which is ...
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ArticleCO2-emissions limit top driver of car choice
Nearly two-thirds (62%) of respondents cited a carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions limit as the top criteria for employee’s company car choice, according to research by GE Capital’s fleet services division.Its Company car trends research, which surveyed 200 fleet decision makers, found that other criteria included the car’s fitness for purpose ...