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Main rate Corporation tax will be reduced from 28% to 27% from 1 April 2011. There will be further 1% reductions each year, leading to a 24% rate by 1 April 2014....
The BVRLA has advised Chancellor George Osborne to abolish the tax disc and allow the purchase of multi-year Vehicle Excise Duty.....
The North report on drink and drug driving commissioned by the Department for Transport has today recommended that the UK drink drive limit be cut to 50mg alcohol per 100ml blood, the maximum limit recommended by the European Commission. The current limit is 80mg per 100ml blood.
Fleets can now prevent costly misfuelling of diesel vehicles with the launch of a device invented by an RAC patrolman, Phil Cartwright. FuelSure can be used on over 80% of diesel cars and light commercial vehicles on UK roads....
The London congestion charge is likely to be raised to £10 a day in the New Year...
A poll conducted by IAM Drive & Survive and the IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists) and covers both genders, found that 61 per cent of females drove to or for work, but only 22 per cent of these were offered driver training by their employer....
The first in a series of ‘how to’ best practice guides designed to influence public and private sector fleet policies and procedures has been launched by ACFO....
Fleet managers, especially those with outright purchase vehicles or those on non-maintenance contacts, have been warned about replacing run-flat with standard tyres to cut costs....
Budget 2010 announces that:
Zero benefit in kind charge for company provided cars and vans which cannot produce more than 0g/km CO2 engine emissions under any circumstances when driven, this was previously available only for electrically propelled cars or vans....
Drivers are continuing to flout the law by using hand-held mobile phones, according to a recent survey commissioned by the Department for Transport....
The Sentencing Guidelines Council has issued a guideline regarding the level of fines that should be imposed after a conviction for corporate manslaughter or a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974....
The AA has emphasised the need for firms to check the driving licences of all employees using vehicles on work business....
Toyota has confirmed the exact UK models involved in a recall that could stretch to 1.8m vehicles worldwide....
From September 2001 registration plates have been displayed as two letters and two numbers. Between Sept 2001 and Sept 2009 if the first number was a ‘0’ then the car was registered in the first half of the year, if the first number was a ‘5’ then the car was registered in the second half of the year. The second number indicated the year of registration, so CV56 would indicate that the car was registered during the later part of 2006....
With reports of many road traffic accidents already happening around the country, and one of the coldest winters in years now well and truly upon us, drivers in Wales are being advised by leading Welsh law firm John Collins and Partners LLP (JCP) to ensure they are clued up on what to do if they get involved in an accident.
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