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That's nothing
The Pension Regulator's own data shows
http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/docs/automatic-enrolment-employer...
In 2014/15 32,000 medium sized employers (who ought to have the time and resources to do this stuff) staged.
In 2015/16 152,900 small and micro employers (some of whom have no idea what AE means) will stage.
In 2016/17 an army of 617,000 small and micro employers will stage.
I expect the number of fixed-penalty notices will increase by at least 100 fold by 2016/17.
Yes, I wouldn't be surprised
That's intense.
617,000 is 19.3 times higher than 32,000. However, there is a much, much greater degree of AE ignorance (or indeed what to do about it) within small and micro companies than there is within the medium sized company sector.
I suspect there will be several thousands of micro employers (particularly unrepresented ones) which arrive at their staging dates in complete ignorance of AE. They binned the correspondence from The Pension Regulator as they didn't understand that "auto enrolment" meant "compulsory workplace pensions" or that "staging date" meant "the date at which the compulsory workplace pension starts". They assumed it was all something complicated that only applied to larger companies.
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192 is not many.
In addition I wonder how many of the fines are actually valid, and how many are going out to closed businesses.
"despite this there are “gaps
"despite this there are “gaps in knowledge”, in particular among accountants and bookkeepers who “continue to have the lowest level of understanding of all intermediaries about automatic enrolment.”"
I hope the term accountant there is largely made up of 'unqualified/unregulated accountants', as any accountant under a governing body worth their salt should be well informed about auto-enrolment.