Corporate Fines: Company Car Fines and Demerit Points [Video]

It is common practice for companies to have a fleet of company cars which they permit employees to use in the performance of their job. 

Providing company cars not only helps employers effectively perform their duties, particularly if their job requires a lot of travel, but it also builds a professional image for your company, enhances brand image, improves employee retention rates, and attracts the best and brightest towards the company due to the perks that are offered. 

However, when cars are registered to organisations but driven by individuals, some legal and bureaucratic issues may arise. In the past, when an individual committed a traffic offence or road-related crime in a company car, there was a loophole that allowed them to avoid receiving demerit points if the company opted to pay the fines rather than identify the registered operator. 

Company car demerit point dodgingbecame highly publicised in 2010, after a company failed to nominate a driver of a …