Young people (who are new to the rituals and requirements of employment) and students in particular, who may have several jobs in one year, or several jobs at the same time are regularly being overtaxed because they are not being issued with a P46 whenever they start a job.  Instead they are taxed at basic rate.

There needs to be some basic education given to these kids in the 6th form.  When they are being taught how to construct a CV for example, wouldn’t it be a good idea to instruct them also in the workings of our PAYE system?

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An electronic ‘fit note’ is to replace paper sick notes from 2010 in a bid to get more people back to work and cut the estimated £100 billion annual cost of sick leave.

Health secretary Alan Johnson announced this week that GPs will stop issuing paper-based sick notes and start providing electronic fit notes following the first ever review of the health of the health of Britain’s working age population.

The government said it wants to switch from a paper-based system to an electronic one to make it less onerous for GPs and easier for practices to audit their clinical practice on medical certification.

So far we have been unable to find out exactly how these electronic ‘fit notes’ will actually work – and whether it will make much difference to those of us running small businesses.

If anybody out there has any more information on these ‘fit notes’ then please do get in contact with us as we would love to hear from you!

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