News archive
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Tax & Facts: All you need to know for 2025-2026
Welcome to the 2025-26 tax year! Please see below for all the key info you will need in respect of…
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A Christmas message from Pay Academy
From all of us at Pay Academy (plus the office hedgehog). We look forward to working with you in 2025
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Tax & Facts: All you need to know for 2024-2025
So 2024-25 facts and figures can be found below. Significant change on national minimum wage, (see percentage changes over 20%)…
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National Minimum Wage – the truth hurts
We have witnessed a number of investigations in this area recently and thought it might be a good idea to…
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Tax & Facts 2023-2024: Rates and thresholds for the new tax year (provisional subject to change)
All the figures given below are subject to change in the budget announcement on the 15th March. Indciations so far…
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Christmas Give Away: The not so trivial, trivial benefit
Trying not to bore you as we approach the business end of the year so here is a quick Christmas…
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We need to talk about holiday pay
We have had a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court in relation to the calculation of holiday pay for part-year…
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Tax & Facts: All you need to know for 2022-2023
Here it is – the much-anticipated Tax & Facts: everything you need to know in 2022-23 relating to tax, national…
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It never rains but it reigns
In 2022, to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the Government has announced an additional bank holiday on Friday, June 3.…
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What else can we do for you?
Necessity is the mother of invention – so some wise person once said and we have seen some impressive technological…
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A tax by any other name
The tax increase that isn’t tax (except that it is). So, what do we know about the new Health and…
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It’s the Final Furlough
Furlough grants extended to employers were never intended as a support for business. It was and remains funding for workers…
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Tax Update Card 2021-2022
All your essential tax details for payroll management are here in Pay Academy’s annual Tax Update Card. Download and print…
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Updating our previous update: CJRS 3
Apologies for posting once again but we are fighting an uphill battle to keep abreast of updates to the Job…
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Flip-flop furlough
The Job Support Scheme V2 that was due for launch yesterday, has now been shelved, as many of you already…
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The next Big Thing: Job Support Scheme
All bets are off. Stand by your beds while HMRC rearranges the deck chairs and we’ll get back to you…
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Furlough grants – what next?
So time to get you up to speed with the ever changing world of payroll. In September, furlough pay will…
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Employer Allowance (EA)
In all the chaos of COVID-19 the changes to the EA from April 2020 got somewhat lost. By way of…
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Cut out and keep the CJRS2 Calendar
Under CJRS2 what you can claim is changing month on month. Below is a “Cut-out and keep calendar” that shows…
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Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme 2 – what is it?
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme 2 (CJRS2) commences 1st July and will end 31st October. It builds on CJRS1 with notable…
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Job Retention Bonus Scheme
The Job Retention Bonus Scheme is a one-off payment of £1,000 to employers that have used the Coronavirus Job Retention…
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Blast from the past – Government funded sick pay
Some of you may have overlooked (in all this chaos) that way back in February the Government announced that the…
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Furlough Pay: Q&A video guides
For your attention payroll professionals: Pay Academy takes you through some of the most frequently asked questions regarding furlough pay…
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Latest on how to make your furlough claim
The online portal for claiming your job retention grant in respect of furloughed workers is expected to be available from…
