As another end of financial year steams into view (already?) we look at the changes you’ll need to making to your payroll in preparation for 2016/17. National Living Wage From 6 April 2016, the National Living Wage (NLW) comes into effect. It’s mandatory and it...
Outsourcing your payroll takes a costly, time consuming process and eliminates it from your day to day operations. How much more time and money could you save if you changed your time and attendance system too? This week, around 1,300 health workers in Belfast found...
In April 2016, benefits in kind are changing. There has never been a clear threshold of value for benefits in kind. It has always been down to the discretion of HMRC to determine what is and isn’t a benefit, and therefore which should and should not be taxed. From 6...
The National Living Wage. Inflation. International pressures. The labour market. Mix them all together for the (possible) answer to one simple question: will your wages go up next year? National Living Wage For one group of people the answer is a resounding yes....
With more than a quarter of small businesses unaware or unclear about their responsibilities ahead of this week’s auto enrolment staging date, we ask what happens next? If your business employs 30-49 employees, your auto-enrolment staging date is this week. Payroll...
Crikey. According to new research, when your staff call you to tell you they’re ill, most of the time they’re not. Here’s what you can do about it. It’s just after 9.00am. In your payroll department, a phone rings. On the other end of the line is someone who sounds...
Though we’ve nearly reached the end of 2015, with annual budgets fast dwindling, a few lucky people will still receive a pay increase before the new tax year. What they receive, naturally, depends on their role, their skills, their employer and a whole bunch of...
Whisper it quietly, but from restaurants and hotels to care homes and the nooks and crannies of the NHS, payroll processing is still being done manually in-house. And it’s costing a fortune in productivity, fraud and fines. “We’d just always done it that way. You...