News archive
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COVID-19 guidance update from HMRC
The HMRC has issued the following update to its COVID-19 guidance: Dear customer, The government is committed to doing whatever…
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Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Furlough Guidance
25 March 2020: the following is our understanding of this policy and how this will work based on the information…
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Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
Our Quick guide – recommended steps If you need to furlough a worker: Notify them in writing of the cessation…
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Pay Academy and COVID-19
We are keen to assure all our clients that during this difficult time we are doing everything we can to…
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Healing SSP
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) has long been one of the most complicated bits of legislation we have to tackle. What…
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Pensions 2022 – a vision of the future
NOW:Pensions has commissioned a very interesting report on the future of pensions. There is far too much for me to…
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Questions we have answered
Q I have an ex-employee who is now claiming Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) from us. We didn’t even know she…
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Statutory Bereavement Pay (SBP)
Parents and primary carers who suffer the loss of a child will be entitled to at least two weeks’ paid…
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Add employees to my payroll 2021
Please find here an excel sheet for collecting details for all new employees. THIS IS FOR EXISTING CLIENTS ONLY. As you…
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The future is Bright
Many of you now will be up and running on our new software; Bright Pay. Reports, payslips etc all look…
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Pensions – stop yawning
All sorts now happening in the wonderful world of pensions. Firstly TPR have stepped up their spot-checks but I am…
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Payslip – what does it say?
The crackdown on NMW goes on and now HMRC want us to increase the information passed to employees in order…
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Dynamic coding update
It just gets worse and worse. I picked this up in the last newsletter and the situation is now rapidly…
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Welcome to the Team
We have a new appointment to the Team to tell you about. Petra joined us at the beginning of the…
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Student loans – the chaos continues
Over-collection of student loans hit the press with some ferocity last month adding salt to the very sore wound that…
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Re-enrol time
Three years from your staging date you will be required to go through the re-enrolment process. This means that anyone…
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Employees and PTAs
Everyone can now access their individual ‘Personal Tax Account’ (PTA) via the HMRC Government Gateway. To do this they/you will…
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Dynamic Coding
Well, who would have ever thought that the words ‘dynamic’ and ‘tax’ would sit together but these are crazy times.…
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What can we do?
Technology is changing all the time and we are trying very hard not to be dinosaurs so do think about…
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Up, up and away…
From last year we had the introduction of a national living wage on top of the national minimum wage. Instead…
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Pensions – what will it cost?
We all know that pension contribution rates will be going up. Well, it is still a while away but just…
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The Apprenticeship Levy – what you cannot ignore
As an employer, you may have to pay the new apprenticeship levy (AKA tax) from 6 April 2017 if: Your…
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New rates and thresholds for tax year 2017-18
New thresholds detailed below but if you want edited highlights; personal allowance has been increased by £500 to £11,500 so…
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Student tax
Here are the new thresholds for Plan 1 for 2017. Despite pressure from many quarters the government is continuing to…
