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....
As a new survey shows most rail commuters are using train Wi-Fi to send work related emails, should employers and their payroll departments be worried or grateful? If you’ve been a rail commuter this week, you almost certainly sent or replied to an email or two on...
Why do fewer workers in the UK do it for the love of the job? How many people on your payroll come into work every day because they love what they do? According to a new survey reported by the CIPP, it’s not as many as our European counterparts. 62% of payroll workers...
We don’t mean you specifically of course, but with GDPR now in force and security and encryption improving constantly, the common denominator in payroll data security breaches is likely to remain human error. In 2014, a former employee of Morrisons leaked the payroll...
According to a new report by CIPP, if more companies offered payroll loans, UK workers could save more than £250 million. For many workers across the UK, every month is just that little too long. When the previous month’s wage packet is exhausted, more and more people...