Do you employ graduates? Here’s a handy guide to help your payroll department manage student loan repayments. What’s the plan? From tax year 2016/17 there are two types of student loan plan, with differing thresholds for paying back a loan: Plan 1: repayments are...
What do Scotland’s proposals for a lower 40% tax threshold mean for payroll teams across the UK? Towards the end of 2016, Scotland’s finance minister Derek Mackay published the Scottish government’s draft Budget. In it were proposals to reduce the rate of increase in...
Schools in and around Bradford are facing wage bills of up to £70,000 as the result of an in-house payroll blunder at Bradford Council. From reputation to risk, life would have been easier if they’d outsourced. Every now and again on these pages, we feature...
New research finds a lack of dedicated payroll and HR expertise is putting SMEs at greatest risk of regulatory and compliance failures. If you run an SME, chances are you won’t have dedicated HR or payroll support. As a result, you are exposing your business to more...
It was supposed to place the lowest paid on a more secure footing but 1 month in, is the National Living Wage already backfiring? As you’ll no doubt know from the raft of changes you’ve recently had to make to your payroll systems, the National Living Wage (NLW) is up...
You’ve a member of staff on maternity leave or shared parental leave. They can, by agreement, return to work for a number of days as a way of keeping in touch. But what are the details? Keeping in touch days can be a valuable tool for employers and employees. It can...
From 6 April, “trivial” benefits in kind will no longer be taxable. So just what counts as trivial? Across the country, payroll teams are gearing up for the new financial year. One of the most resource intensive parts of their work is likely to be a change to the way...
Self-assessment deadline date puts extra pressure on HMRC phone lines, and makes already lengthy waiting times longer still. So if that tricky payroll problem requires a call to someone at HMRC today, how long should you expect to wait? Wait a Moment, the site...