You run a business operating in the care sector and payroll takes too much of your time. But before you choose your outsourced payroll partner, consider this… In summer 2018 the British Chambers of Commerce published the results of a survey of more than 1,100...
The CIPD’s Labour Market Outlook report for the final quarter of 2018 gives us a decidedly ‘bah, humbug’ feeling about the New Year. It’s that time of year. A time to look back at the year that’s passed (as we do in this review of 2018), and a time to look ahead at...
It was the year of GDPR, gig-economy wranglings, Making Tax Digital and auto-enrolment crackdowns. And that’s before we get to Brexit. If you work in payroll, 2018 has been a busy year… January We started the year by looking at the good, the bad and the ugly of what...
Like cheese and crackers, Slade and Christmas and Ant and Dec, some things are just meant to go together. Businesses have an uncanny knack of dividing their various functions into silos that never collaborate. That may ensure roles are kept nice and tightly defined,...
With Christmas around the corner (sorry) now’s the time for a reminder that when it comes to putting the cost of gifts through the company books, HMRC is a virtual Santa Claus – providing the gifts are “trivial”. Christmas can be a challenging time for payroll...
If you run your own payroll department, here are the parts of Philip Hammond’s latest Budget that will have your payroll people beavering away in preparation for April 2019. It was the ‘end of austerity’. Or, depending on which side of the House you sit, it wasn’t...
The HMRC’s application of off-payroll rules have led to a landmark settlement for one former freelancer. We’ve written about the gig economy on numerous occasions, and in particular about the ongoing tensions between what constitutes freelance working, and the point...
1-5 October is National Work Life Week, an initiative by Working Families to encourage more businesses to adopt policies that protect or boost the work-life balance. Businesses have been having conversations about work-life balance for the best part of two decades....