It’s Christmas time again and some employers may be providing their staff with a Christmas bonus, a seasonal gift or a Christmas party. If a gift is given, you need to consider whether the item can be resold or exchanged for cash by the employee or if it is considered as trivial and therefore tax […] Read more »
2015 National Minimum Wage Rates
From 1st October 2015 National Minimum Wage rates have increased, so please ensure you are paying your employees correctly. Research suggests nearly a third of small business owners do not know what the National Minimum Wage rate is or forget that it increases every October. Adults aged 21 and over increases from £6.50 to £6.70 […] Read more »
Auto Enrolment: What if no staff are eligible?
Many small employers may have employees that are not eligible for automatic enrolment and therefore assume that they do not need to set up a pension. Whilst there is no need to set up a pension if you have staff that are not eligible because they are too young or do not earn enough, those […] Read more »
New E-Payslip website
The e-payslips site has been revamped with a new look and feel. The new URL is my.ePayslips.com When logging into the new site you can continue to use your current login ID and PIN. LOGO As part of the new look it is possible to add a logo to every page and change the colour […] Read more »
Summer Budget Summary
The Chancellor’s summer budget means several changes that will affect employers from April 2016. 1. Introduction of a new compulsory National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and above. Currently, the National Minimum Wage for employees that are 21 years old and over is £6.50 an hour, increasing to £6.70 in October 2015. For those […] Read more »
Auto enrolment: It’s the Law!
I recently read a scary statistic from an auto-enrolment survey which said 1 in 10 SMEs plan to ignore auto-enrolment completely whilst 11% of small business owners are still unaware of what auto-enrolment even is. Please do not let this be you. If you have somehow managed to miss all the national TV and radio […] Read more »
Auto enrolment for Directors?
Since Automatic enrolment will affect many more small employers in the next couple of years, there is some confusion regarding those companies with only one or two directors. We recently spoke to The Pensions Regulator who gave us their clarification on this. The Pensions Regulator will write to ALL employers informing them of their staging […] Read more »
Under 21’s National Insurance
From 6th April 2015, a new NI band called the Upper Secondary Threshold (UST) has been created to facilitate the abolition of employer National Insurance contributions for employees under the age of 21. The Upper Secondary Threshold is £815 per week. Earnings above this threshold will remain subject to secondary Class 1 National Insurance Contributions. […] Read more »
No more P35 Questions
HMRC has said that from 6th March 2015, the end of tax year P35 checklist will no longer be required. Employers will still however be required to report the Final Submission for the Year indicator with either their RTI Full Payment Submission (FPS) or EPS. The end of year checklist consists of seven declaration questions […] Read more »