As the rate of employer’s National Insurance has increased, salary sacrifice may be a more tax-efficient way to make pension contributions.
It’s vital that you can pay your workers the new minimum wage, without disrupting other aspects of your business.
Charities did not feature significantly in the Autumn Budget 2024, but here’s a summary of some of the changes that will affect the sector…
Read our summary of some of the changes contained in the Autumn Budget 2024 and how they might affect you or your organisation…
From April 2026, reporting and paying Income Tax and Class 1A NICs on benefits-in-kind will be mandatory through payroll software.
Conducting year-end work can be difficult to prioritise. Read through our ten strategies that can make your year-end process a more seamless.
Offering benefits to your employees has a number of advantages. If you’re deciding whether you could be providing them, consider these potential positives…
After April 5 2025, you’ll only be able to fill National Insurance gaps going back 6 tax years, so if you have many years missing on your record, you should start considering what you can do about this.
Your tax code is used by your employer or pension provider to work out how much Income Tax to take from your pay or pension.
When total deductions due for company benefits, state pension, or tax owed from previous years exceed an employee’s personal allowance.
Under the Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme, small-and medium-sized businesses and employers will be able to reclaim Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) paid for sickness absence due to COVID-19. The online service to reclaim SSP is not available
New workplace rights to paid leave for bereaved parents came into effect on 6 April 2020. The new law has been welcomed by charities helping bereaved parents to cope with losing a child.
The new allowance gives employed parents the right to claim
The P9X form is used to notify employers of tax codes to use for employees. The form confirms expectations that the basic personal allowance for the tax year starting 6 April 2020 will remain at £12,500. The emergency tax code will remain at
This article is a reminder to payroll staff about the electronic PAYE payment dates. The due date for electronic PAYE payments falls on the 22nd of the month and when a payment is made electronically, a payment on the day usually suffices.
However,
The definition of a connected person for tax purposes includes certain relatives, trustees, partners and companies.
A person is connected with an individual if that person is
the individual’s spouse or civil partner
a relative of the
In December 2018, HMRC wrote to employers to advise of a temporary easement on reporting PAYE information in real time over the Christmas period. This was put in place because many employers pay their employees earlier than usual over the Christmas
There are late filing penalties in place for employers that don’t report payroll information on time. The size of the late filing penalties depends on the number of employees within the PAYE scheme.
Number of employees
Monthly
The P9X form is used to notify employers of the tax code to use for employees. The form shows the tax codes to use from 6 April 2019. The basic Personal Allowance for the tax year starting 6 April 2019 will be £12,500 and the tax code for emergency
The Living Wage Foundation (an initiative of Citizens UK) recently announced Living Wage rates for London and the UK at £10.55 an hour and £9 an hour respectively. These Living Wage rates are not statutorily binding but represent an increase of 25p
Advisory fuel rates are intended to reflect actual average fuel costs and are updated quarterly. The rates can be used by employers who reimburse employees for business travel in their company cars or where employees are required to repay the cost of
There are late filing penalties in place for employers that don’t report payroll information on time. The size of the late filing penalties depends on the number of employees within the PAYE scheme.
Number of employees
Monthly filing
One of the most time-consuming admin tasks associated with the running a small business can be dealing with the payroll.
Generally speaking, you can:
Run your own in-house payroll, or
Hire your accountant to do the work for you.
If you operate
The employment allowance of £3,000 per year is available to most businesses and charities and can be used to be offset against their employers Class 1 NIC bill. The allowance can be claimed as part of the normal payroll process.
An employer can
If you have been in the same job for two years or more and are made redundant you will usually be entitled to a redundancy payment. The legal minimum that you are entitled to receive is known as ‘statutory redundancy pay’. There are exceptions where
