Author Archives: Isle of Man Government News

One-off housing payment available to some retired police officers

An administrative issue has been identified which resulted in the uplift to this allowance not being applied between 1 April 1992 and 1 September 1994.
The Department has agreed to make an ex-gratia payment of £250 to recognise this historical error t…

Minimum Wage Committee to undertake further assessment into impact of potential rate increase

The Minimum Wage Committee (‘the Committee’), an independent committee constituted of employer and worker representatives, commenced their review into the rates of minimum wage in the Isle of Man in October 2023. Following initial consideration of inpu…

Financial Sanctions: Russia

This news release is issued to publicise the correction of 1 entry under the Russian sanctions regime.
The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/855) were made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (the Sanctions Act…

Financial Sanctions: ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida

This news release is issued to publicise the correction of 2 entries under the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Regime.
The ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida (United Nations Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/466) were made under the Sanctio…

Financial Sanctions: Bosnia and Herzegovina

This news release is issued to publicise the addition of 1 entry to the Bosnia and Herzegovina sanctions regime.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/608) were made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering A…

Financial Sanctions: Belarus

This news release is issued to publicise the correction of 1 entry to the Belarus sanctions regime.
The Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/600) were made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (the San…

Customs and Immigration teams join forces at ports

The Customs and Excise division of the Treasury will formally take responsibility for Passports, Immigration and Nationality services (PIN) tomorrow (Tuesday 16 January).
The move will lead to the division being renamed Customs and Immigration and is d…

Class 2 NI payments to continue for 2024-25

People who pay Class 2 National Insurance contributions are reminded that they should continue to pay this way for the forthcoming tax year, 6 April 2024 to 5 April 2025.
While the United Kingdom Government announced plans late last year to abolish Cla…

New civil penalites for breaches in obligations relating to aerodromes and failure to provide further information on Customs declarations

The Treasury advises that there are new civil penalties for breaches of new reporting obligations relating to a specified conditions or where the person in control of an unregulated aerodrome does not take reasonable steps to prevent a breach which com…

Changes to Red Diesel marking requirements

What is changing
From 18 January 2024 a new fiscal marker, n-butyl phenyl ehther (‘n-BPE’), is being introduced for use in rebated ‘red’ diesel and other rebated fuels.  Minor issues with the red dyes used in the colouring substance to improve solubili…