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Employment-Related Shares and Securities

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

HMRC have published their fourth Employment-Related Shares and Securities Bulletin, which provides information and updates relating to these securities and tax-advantaged employee share schemes.  In addition, this has implications for Real Time Information (RTI).  In this Bulletin, HMRC advise: New Telephone Number From 03 December 2012, the telephone number to be used to contact the [...]

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Tax Return ‘Amnesty’ from HMRC (2)

Thursday, July 19th, 2012

Last week, we reported on the new initiative from HMRC whereby taxpayers who have who have not completed Tax Returns for 2009/10, or earlier, are being offered an amnesty from penalties.  This is called the Tax Return Initiative, open until 02 October 2012. It is with thanks to our reader Hugo Fair that we are [...]

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HMRC changes to employer mailings and Orderline

Monday, February 14th, 2011

The following is an extract from the latest weekly informal update (dated 4 February) from HMRC to employer representatives. As you know, HMRC is committed to moving more of its business online and to significantly reduce the cost of the services it currently provides. As part of this commitment, we will no longer issue paper [...]

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Contracting-out Rebates

Monday, February 14th, 2011

The Government is required by law to review actuarially the National Insurance contracting-out rebates for defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes every five years.  The rates that will apply from April 2012, subject to confirmation, have been announced in a draft Statutory Instrument. The contracting-out rebates for defined benefit schemes apply to contracted-out salary [...]

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Questions from our forum 21/01/11

Friday, January 21st, 2011

Each week we receive a number of payroll questions on our forum, and here are this week’s batch. Can you help with any answers? Forum posts: Calculating Leavers Salary We are all part time employees and we are paid on the 15th of each month in 12 equal payments. On Tuesday 23rd November, after finishing [...]

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Employment Income Manual – New and updated guidance pages

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

HMRC has listed a number of changes and additions to the technical Employment Income Manual used by HMRC officers but made available for general use by advisers and employers.  The new and amended pages include the following guidance. Scale rate expenses: A useful Q&A page has been added to explain issues relating to the use [...]

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Employer Bulletin – Latest issue released online

Friday, May 7th, 2010

HMRC’s Employer Bulletin has traditionally been sent out to all employers by post.  The April 2010 issue has been released online in a format suited to viewing by computer and the next issue in September will no longer be sent by post.  Employers can register to receive an email alert when each issue becomes available. [...]

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Data Provisioning Service – Updated version of PAYE Desktop Viewer

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

HMRC’s PAYE Desktop Viewer (PDV) was a new facility introduced in October 2009 to provide improved access to coding notices, notifications and reminders.  An updated version of the application is now available to download from HMRC’s website and all users should install the new version in order to view the latest notices. Further information: Using [...]

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