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2006/7 overpayments magically disappear
Of course with no clawback of tax credits for 2006/7 unless your income changes by more than £25,000 as opposed to the £2,500 it used to be ....one assumes the government will be claiming a major success next year...because the overpayments figure will have magically dropped.......BUT in reality the "overpayments" will still have been made but will no longer be called that...and possibly will not even be quantified!!
Scandalous!
and employers have to do far more...
it is indeed scandalous - presumably the checks were side-stepped because the whole scheme had been so badly introduced and was so far in arrears that there "wasn't time" for them to do the job properly
but there is no need to even consider whether the same reason/excuse could be used in mitigation by an employer who takes on someone and does not carry out ALL the relevant ID checks! Failure is not a slap on the wrist - but a criminal offence
An employer is not even entitled to assume anything about an individual from a current and valid CIS certificate or card, because the Inland Revenue, whoops, HM Customs & Excise, do not carry out the relevant checks either before issuing these.
The guidance issued to employers following the introduction on 1 May 2004 of new legislation aimed at preventing "illegal working" specifically states that a card or certificate issued under the Construction Industry scheme does not count as evidence.