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Risk Assessments, Reluctant Witnesses, Keyboard Skills, Dress-Down days and Monthly Brain Teaser
16/05/2013
Risk Assessments
16/05/2013
In some areas of life we make risk assessments instinctively. Can we cross the road before that lorry gets here? Can I slip into the...
The Reluctant Witness
16/05/2013
Have you ever had someone come to you to report that they have witnessed a misdemeanour such as a theft only to say “but I...
HR Questions & Answers
16/05/2013
Acquiring keyboard skills I have to use a computer regularly but am slow because I type with only two fingers and just cannot remember where...
Monthly Brain Teaster and April’s Answer
16/05/2013
Last month’s problem was: can you place all the numbers from 1 to 9 into a 3 x 3 grid such that each line –...
19 May Approaches, RTI Countdown, RTI and Annual Schemes, RTI and BPT, Government Responds to OTS Review of Pensioner Taxation, Queen’s Speech 2013 and Statutory Residence Test Guidance
14/05/2013
It was interesting to see that my work colleagues were betting on the number of times I would fall into the canal! I would love...
RTI Countdown
14/05/2013
As you will be aware, from 06 April 2013, most employers started to report payroll information in real time. Alignments have been done and many...
19 May Approaches
14/05/2013
Don’t forget – non-RTI Pilot employers have to submit their 2012/13 annual returns (P35 and P14s) by 19 May 2013 to avoid late filing penalties...
RTI and Annual PAYE Schemes
14/05/2013
HMRC have clarified the criteria for registering a PAYE scheme as an annual scheme. An annual scheme must meet all of the following requirements: all the...
RTI and HMRC’s Basic Payroll Tools (BPT)
14/05/2013
It would appear that there are technical problems with HMRC’s own payroll software BPT when trying to send RTI information via the Government Gateway. BPT...
Government Responds to Review of Pensioner Taxation
14/05/2013
In 2011, HM Treasury asked the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) to look at simplifying the system for the estimated 5.6 million people of pensionable...
Queen’s Speech 2013
14/05/2013
At the start of the Parliamentary session, Her Majesty the Queen performs the State Opening, recalling both the House of Lords and the House of...
Statutory Residence Test Guidance
14/05/2013
From 06 April 2013, an individual’s tax residence status in the UK is determined by using the Statutory Residence Test (SRT). HMRC have issued more guidance...
RTI and Out of synch payrolls, RTI and Unpaid Absence reporting, Are pension contributions wages for the purpose of unlawful deductions from pay?
08/05/2013
So, our newsletter writer has taken himself off for a week’s holiday cruising up and down the canals of England. Bets are currently being taken...
RTI – The continuing saga – Part 1 – Unpaid Absence
08/05/2013
Yet again HMRC have made a decision to make changes to the FPS reporting procedures which should have...
RTI – The continuing saga – Part 2 – Out of Synch Payrolls
08/05/2013
Employers are required to report PAYE in real time under RTI. As such the Full Payment Submission must report the correct payment date, in other...
Do pension contributions count as wages for the purpose of unlawful deductions
08/05/2013
Our thanks go to Daniel Barnett’s Employment Law Bulletin for drawing our attention to this case Mr Chambers worked as a full time employee for Somerset...
RTI Countdown, HMRC’s Basic Tools, P11D(b) and RTI Pilot Employers, RTI and Annual Schemes, Universal Credit Starts Small, Gov.UK, EP Appendix 4, ET and EAT Fees, Employee Shareholder Contracts, HMRC Helpline and ACAS Issues Collective Redundancy Guidance
30/04/2013
My brain and my body work at different paces, it seems. The older I get, the slower I seem to walk, even though my brain...
