Archive for September, 2008

The revisions to the upper earnings limits in 2007 and 2008 and the 1% increase in the employers’ contribution rate in 2008, with compensatory reductions in the States grants, has produced an annual saving to general revenue of at least £26m per year. Social Security are recommending that the upper earnings caps for contributions should [...]

14-15 October 2008 – London Olympia 2 Visit Softworld for the latest solutions and forward thinking for your business Register FREE today for your best opportunity to discover the powerful solutions that will help add value to your business. Softworld HR and Payroll Solutions takes place on 14-15 October 2008 at London Olympia 2. Here [...]

This week’s newsletter includes a major article on issues we have raised with the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) which, I suspect, is not going to please that government department.  Its unwillingness to engage with employers, despite its ownership of all of the UK’s employment law, is in marked contrast with HMRC [...]

People setting up a company to buy property abroad will no longer pay tax on the provision of living accommodation. Employers wishing to take advantage of the tax exemption must understand the qualifying conditions. The Finance Act 2008 included a new tax exemption intended to help individuals who purchase property abroad in the name of [...]

This is a technical article, explaining a number of issues that require clarification from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) if employers are going to apply correctly the new maternity and adoption leave rules from October 2008. Unfortunately, BERR appears reluctant to help employers apply its own employment law correctly. The issues [...]

Interested parties are asked to comment on three questions in preparation for the extension of flexible working to parents with children age 16 and under. In May 2008, Imelda Walsh, the HR Director of J Sainsbury plc, published the results of an independent review of the government’s intention to extend the existing flexible working provisions [...]

Most large companies will have to pay over taxes and file all of their various tax returns electronically by January 2010. New Regulations, the Tax Returns and Payments (Mandatory Electronic Filing and Payment of Tax) Regulations 2008, impose comprehensive electronic filing and payment obligations on many Government and State bodies, and on larger companies, in [...]

Last week’s newsletter provided an overview of the new form P46(Pen) Notification of pension starting and how it will be used from April 2009. HMRC’s intention has been for the form to be used in all cases to report the tax code used by a pension payer (former employer or otherwise) for a new pensioner. [...]

10th February 2009 Spotlight Day 11th & 12th February 2009 main event Held at the Sheraton Hotel in Brussels, Belgium HR Directors Summit Europe 2009 brings together top and leading senior executives from international organisations for knowledge sharing, learning, networking, benchmarking, business development and problem solving. With special guest speaker: LYNDA GRATTON from London Business [...]

30th-31st Oct 2008 “A two day workshop examining theoretical and global best practices in recruiting, developing, retaining and positioning the best technical and professional workers” Hong Kong – Salvo’s Technical Talent Management Workshop is organized to help organizations attract, develop, retain and transfer the knowledge of the best High Professional (HiPro) workers. HiPros’s are the [...]