Please find here an excel sheet for collecting details for all new employees. THIS IS FOR EXISTING CLIENTS ONLY. As you move through the sheet, dialogue boxes will provide guidance. Once … [Read more...]
The future is Bright
Many of you now will be up and running on our new software; Bright Pay. Reports, payslips etc all look a little bit different but in essence it is doing the same job as Access but in most cases – … [Read more...]
Pensions – stop yawning
All sorts now happening in the wonderful world of pensions. Firstly TPR have stepped up their spot-checks but I am unable to find out how many have actually occurred nor can I establish any hard facts … [Read more...]
Payslip – what does it say?
The crackdown on NMW goes on and now HMRC want us to increase the information passed to employees in order to arm them for battle. So we have new legislation from April 2019 that says payslips must … [Read more...]
Dynamic coding update
It just gets worse and worse. I picked this up in the last newsletter and the situation is now rapidly deteriorating but HMRC seem to have chosen a path and are doggedly pursuing it. So rather than … [Read more...]
Welcome to the Team
Petra, a new member of the Pay Academy team with her very vegan packed lunch We have a new appointment to the Team to tell you about. Petra joined us at the beginning of the summer coming from … [Read more...]
Student loans – the chaos continues
Over-collection of student loans hit the press with some ferocity last month adding salt to the very sore wound that many of our graduates now have. Latest figures out (for tax year 2015/16) show £51 … [Read more...]
Re-enrol time
Three years from your staging date you will be required to go through the re-enrolment process. This means that anyone who has ceased or opted out of the workplace pension more than 12 months from … [Read more...]
Employees and PTAs
Everyone can now access their individual 'Personal Tax Account' (PTA) via the HMRC Government Gateway. To do this they/you will need a Government Gateway login. Simply Google 'HMRC PTA' and the … [Read more...]
Dynamic Coding
Well, who would have ever thought that the words 'dynamic' and 'tax' would sit together but these are crazy times. Since the end of July; HMRC have moved to a 'dynamic coding' environment. This means … [Read more...]
