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Statutory and Other Payments and Deductions
Statutory Payments 2013/14
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013Following the Autumn Statement on 05 December 2012 and our subsequent reporting, HMRC have confirmed this information on their Website. For SSP, the new rate of £86.70 per week is effective 06 April 2013. For SMP, SAP, OSPP and ASPP, the new rate of £136.78 will apply from the first payment week staring on or [...]
Statutory Payments for 2013/14
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012Following the Autumn Statement and the provision of most of the new payment rates and thresholds for the next tax year, the final pieces of the puzzle are announced below: SSP The weekly rate of SSP is increased by £0.85 from £85.85 per week to £86.70 per week from 06 April 2013. This is an [...]
Statutory Payment Rates 2013/14
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012SSP The weekly rate of SSP is increased by £0.85 from £85.85 per week to £86.70 per week from 06 April 2013. This is an increase of 1%, as announced by the Chancellor in his Autumn Statement 2012. The daily rates are unpublished at the time of publication SMP, SAP, OSPP and ASPP The 2013/14 [...]
Statutory Payments
Thursday, December 6th, 2012Point 2.60 of the Autumn Statement said that most working-age benefits, including SSP, SMP, OSPP / ASPP and SAP would only be uprated by 1% from April 2013. These Statutory payment rates for 2013/14 have not been announced as at the time of publication. These will be published as soon as we are aware of [...]
Surrogacy – Private Member’s Bill
Monday, May 14th, 2012On 17 April 2012, under the Ten Minute Rule Bill, John Healey, MP for Wentworth and Dearne, introduced the Surrogate Parents (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements). The aim of this Bill is to widen existing maternity and adoption rights so that they apply to surrogate mothers as well as birth or adopting mothers. His Bill [...]
Statutory Payments 2012/13
Sunday, December 18th, 2011HMRC have announced the statutory payment amounts that will apply for 2012/13. As we have already advised, the LEL for next tax year is £107.00 per week: Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) The weekly rate of SSP has increased by 5.2% to £85.85 from 06 April 2012. This equates to an increase that is equivalent to [...]
Varying terms and conditions of employment
Friday, February 25th, 2011In a decision given on 14 January 2011 in the case Morgan v Network Europe Group Ltd, the London Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that, where an employee has been issued with new terms and conditions but no attention is drawn to a significant change, the employee is not deemed to have accepted the variation. [...]
Review of sickness absence system
Friday, February 25th, 2011On 17 February, the Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced a review of sickness absence provisions to explore what can be done to help more people stay in work and examine whether the balance of costs are shared appropriately between individuals, employers and the State. The review will look at short-term sickness absence, where costs are [...]
NICs and Statutory Payments Toolkit
Friday, February 25th, 2011In recent months, HMRC has begun to provide “toolkits” for tax agents and advisers to help them check that returns are completed correctly, focus on key areas of potential error, and meet the “reasonable care” requirement. A particularly useful toolkit, on Expenses and Benefits from Employment, was issued in October 2010. One of the latest [...]
Questions from our forum 21/01/11
Friday, January 21st, 2011Each 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 [...]
Phasing out the default retirement age
Thursday, January 13th, 2011As expected, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) confirmed on 13 January that default retirement age (DRA) will be abolished completely in three stages during 2011: from 6 April 2011, employers will not be able to issue any notifications for compulsory retirement using the “DRA procedures” (see below) between 6 April and 1 [...]
Questions from our forum 13/01/11
Thursday, January 13th, 2011Each 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: Backdating SMP If an employee has been on maternity leave, for around 6 months, but has continued to be paid her full salary as normal, for whatever reason, is [...]
HR problems page
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011Here we take our weekly look at answering some of the tricky HR questions we’ve been emailed. If you have a tricky HR question you needs answering email it to help@payroll-help.com and we’ll post the best here with an answer each week. Bullying boss I am secretary/PA to a man who is a bit of a [...]
Questions From Our Forum 30/12/10
Friday, December 31st, 2010The following questions have been posted over the past week. Can you contribute to any of the discussions?… How long can I delay my staff from taking holiday? We have recently had some employees leave the company, we have decided not to replace them. We have adequate staffing levels until a member of staff goes [...]
Dealing with long-term sickness
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010Inevitably at some stage every organisation will find that it has an employee who is likely to be or has been on sick leave for a long time. This may present a problem because managers have to balance efficiency with humanity, yet the situation is not difficult to handle if you understand clearly what you [...]
Consultation on draft legislation for Finance Bill 2011
Friday, December 17th, 2010The policy of the Coalition government is to confirm most of its new tax measures at least three months before the introduction of a Finance Bill. The draft text of the legislation that will appear in the Finance Bill 2011 was published on 9 December and is open for technical comment until 9 February 2011. [...]
Questions From Our Forum 17/12/10
Friday, December 17th, 2010Personal mileage costs in Company Car Some of our employees who have a Company Car have been provided with a company credit card to pay for their fuel. This means that they are using the fuel for business and private use. How do we make the employee pay for their private usage? I have suggested [...]
Statutory payment rates and thresholds for 2011/12
Friday, December 10th, 2010The new tax and NICs rates and thresholds for 2011/12 were announced by the Treasury on 2 December, followed by the new statutory payment rates from the Department for Work and Pensions. In general they reflect the 4.6% increase in retail prices in the year to September 2010. The legislation for the increases in the [...]
Questions From Our Forum 10/12/10
Friday, December 10th, 2010The following questions have been posted over the past week. Can you contribute to any of the discussions?… Holiday pay – Self employed I am from Romania and because of this I have the right to work in UK just being self employed. According to this statute I have very few right excluding holyday paid. [...]
Questions from our forum 07/12/10
Monday, December 6th, 2010Each 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: Holiday Pay Entitlement/Accrual for Rec Agencies Have noticed much input on Holiday Accrual and Holiday Pay Accrual and read with interest previous advice and posts that have been made. [...]
