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Risk Assessments, Reluctant Witnesses, Keyboard Skills, Dress-Down days and Monthly Brain Teaser
Thursday, May 16th, 2013Are all your employees happy? What a lovely thought! Unfortunately even the best managers cannot keep all their people happy all the time. From time to time we all have a gripe about something at work. We may feel unfairly treated, overworked, underpaid. Anything really. And some of these grievances may be real or just [...]
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
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013It was interesting to see that my work colleagues were betting on the number of times I would fall into the canal! I would love to be able to disappoint them and say that all went smoothly and I remained above water at all times. Unfortunately, there was a rogue incident in between a flight [...]
RTI and Out of synch payrolls, RTI and Unpaid Absence reporting, Are pension contributions wages for the purpose of unlawful deductions from pay?
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013So, 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 on how many times he manages to fall in, though I do think some people are being a lot less than charitable. Normal service will be resumed next week when [...]
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
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013My brain and my body work at different paces, it seems. The older I get, the slower I seem to walk, even though my brain is still that of a 20 year-old (!). However, later this week I am so looking forward to the opportunity of getting my body and brain into synch again, whilst [...]
RTI Countdown, DWP on Gov.UK, ADR Trial Evaluation, Welsh Income Tax, Direct Earnings Attachments and Employee-Shareholder Contracts
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013When the rain stops (at last) and the sun comes out, everything is immediately better with the world. The nerves are calmer and there is a general sense of well-being. Long may it continue – well, at least for the next two weeks anyway, so that I can navigate my way along England’s waterways without [...]
RTI Countdown, RTI and the NVR, RTI and P45s and P46s for 2012/13, The EPS and ‘Split’ Payrolls (2), Form P85 Updated, National Minimum Wage 2013/14, NEST Restrictions 2013/14, HMRC Bulletin 44, HMRC Bank Details Change Reminder
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013The sun is out and things are warming up. Personally, this is a big event for me. Professionally, however, RTI still remains the largest issue, understandably so. I hope that everything is going well with your submissions and the transition to reporting in real time. We have some ‘must-read’ articles to help you this week.
Growing an Attendance Culture, Problem Solving, Proof of drunkenness and Re-engagement vs Re-instatement
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013How often have we watched our football or cricket team playing badly, and inevitably then lose, perhaps against a lower rated team? And have we not at times seen our children going about their homework in a half-hearted way, and discovered later that it brought them a poor mark? We recognise these poor performances readily, [...]
RTI Countdown, HMRC Bank Details Change, RTI and Starters Update April 2013, Online Expenses and Benefits, P9D and P11D Forms 2012/13, Class 2 NICs Underpayments ‘Coded Out from 2014, Scottish Rate of Income Tax
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013Clearly, the biggest payroll ‘news’ this week is that we have entered the start of the 2013/14 tax year and the introduction of reporting payroll information in real time has begun – Real Time Information. Reassuringly, I have mainly heard only good reports from employers, agents and payroll bureaus, so it appears that everything is [...]
RTI Countdown, RTI New Starter Guidance (3), 2013/14 Essential Payroll Information, Employment Law Changes 2013/14 and Tax Facts
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013In our Newsletter of 12 March 2013, we highlighted how HMRC had issued revised guidance which changed the procedure for advising new starters on the Full Payment Submission (FPS). At the time, we commented that it was late to be changing things at the 11th hour. After protestations that this guidance was unworkable and impractical, [...]
RTI Countdown, TaxFacts 2013/14 from The Learn Centre, RTI Easement for Small Employers, the Single-Tier Pension 2016 and Consultation on Auto-Enrolment Improvements
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013Anyone that is familiar with me will know that I have a ‘thing’ about wearing socks with the day of the week on them. I simply cannot attend a business meeting or a training session if I am not wearing a pair of socks that corresponds with the actual day of the week. My partner [...]
Holiday Problems, Protecting Personal Data, Contracts of Employment, Parking Fines, and Monthly Brain Teaser
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013Have you ever carried out an audit of the forms you use? If not, you may be surprised at the result if you do. We tend to follow forms slavishly, and indeed some forms from officialdom do have to be followed in that way, but what about the ones used only within your own organisation? [...]
Budget 2013
Thursday, March 21st, 2013Love, loathe or just completely indifferent towards him, regardless of your political persuasion, you have to feel a bit of sympathy for the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I know it is a career choice, however, there cannot be many jobs where the media is camped outside your door from the early hours and your [...]
RTI Countdown, RTI Pilot Employers and Year-End, Budget 2013, HMRC to Close its Enquiry Centres, HMRC and Customer Service Criticism, Employment Law Review 2013, Single-Tier Pension and Childcare Vouchers and the Basic Earnings Assessment
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013First it was the news about Bonnie Tyler and now, after one lucky win over the England rugby team, my Welsh partner has developed a new lease of life. We had leeks for dinner on Sunday and Bara Brith was taken into work on the Monday. I am reserving judgement, however, and have said that [...]
RTI Countdown, RTI and the Starter Declaration UPDATE 2, The Learn Centre Annual Conference 2013, Jersey Minimum Wage April 2013 and Guernsey Minimum Wage 2013 Consultation
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013The broad definition of change is the act of making something different. In payroll and HR, we are used to change, as we know that, in the workplace, change is necessary in many instances to ‘keep up with the times’, changing practices and legislation. As employers, generally, we take this in our professional stride, recognising [...]
RTI Countdown, RTI and the Payment Date, Unpaid Parental Leave from 08 March 2013, Advisory Fuel Rates March 2013, HMRC Agent Update 34 and ACAS Draft Code of Practice on Flexible Working
Monday, March 4th, 2013As I write, our house is still blooming yellow in honour of St David’s Day, the patron saint of Wales, my partner’s country. The land of the fiery dragon (Y Ddraig Goch), daffodils and leeks, I send thanks that we no longer have the dragons but are left with the other two! Don’t forget the [...]
RTI Countdown, Using Correct Payment Reference Numbers, HMRC’s Basic PAYE Tools Upgrade, Share Scheme Returns 2012/13, Unpaid Parental Leave to 18 Weeks, HMRC E-Mail Address Change Template
Tuesday, February 26th, 2013The number of people that work from home increased from 9.2% in 2001 to 10.7% in 2011, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Sometimes I am lucky enough to be able to work from home. It does not work for every employment or every individual but, from a personal perspective, [...]
The Learn Centre 19th Annual Conference, RTI Countdown, RTI and Payrolls around 06 April 2013, The Starter Declaration – Expats and Pensioners; The EPS and ‘Split’ Payrolls; The Children and Families Bill and The Percentage Threshold Scheme.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013As the RTI countdown to 06 April continues, this week’s Newsletter is filled with more essential information that employers will need to enable them to make the transition to real time reporting. When we have deadlines at the workplace, we focus on the more important and the essential ones, knowing that the others will wait [...]
Personal Career Development, Accident Prone Employees, Eastern European Workers, Employers Postal Address and Monthly Brain Teaser
Friday, February 15th, 2013Wow, HR people are likely to be in great demand this year because of all the changes in employment law that are in the government’s pipeline, and indeed because of the stuff that is already on the statute book but is giving employers headaches. The Employment Tribunals have a long waiting list of cases, most [...]
The Learn Centre 19th Annual Conference, RTI Countdown, RTI Pilot Update January 2013, RTI Penalties Responses and The RTI Starter Declaration
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013As we approach the start of the tax year with alarming speed, it is inevitable that there will be RTI announcements that we need to bring to the attention of the profession. This week’s Newsletter is, unashamedly, RTI-focused, for which we make no apologies. This is the hot topic of the moment for sure and [...]
The Learn Centre 19th Annual Conference, RTI Countdown, RTI Pilot Update January 2013, Married Couple’s Allowance, Alternative Dispute Resolution Service
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013I haven’t had the time to read about the skeletal remains of one of our Kings buried beneath a car park in Leicester. I do remember thinking, however, that I would prefer a more dignified end to my life. No, I have been busy preparing for our Conference, see below, and ensuring that our course [...]
