Selima

The following article "Duck! Handling your human capital in a crisis" was published on the HRzone web site on 17th June 2010

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When a crisis hits, organisations instinctively prioritise their physical assets such as data and premises as they rally to continue 'business as usual'. But when it comes to planning for the worst, making sure staff are looked after should be just as important, argues Graham Whitehouse, of HR and payroll provider Selima.

HMRC has announced that Extra Statutory Concession (ESC) B46 will come to an end on 31 March 2011 and that businesses submitting Company Tax returns and employers’ end-of-year returns after this date must make sure the returns are submitted by the required dates.

ESC B46 was a concession which meant people submitting end of year returns electronically had an extra 7 days to do it. This dates back to electronic returns being tapes or discs posted to HMRC, and the concession meant things like postal strikes did not mean employers got penalties.

Now that submissions are handled over the internet, HMRC has decied it a concession is no longer needed.

More details can be found at the HMRC web site.