- van benefit charge increases to £3,000
- the new van fuel benefit charge is £500.
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Here is an extract of some of the payroll
related news recently published In our monthly newsletters during
the last 12 months. |
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July 07
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| July 2007 |
Smoking Ban Ref: http://smokefreeengland.co.uk You may wish to introduce a smoke free policy to ensure that your employees are aware of the new law. More information is in our Feb and July eNewsletters.
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| July 2007 |
The law is changing for holiday pay. More information is on the Holiday support page on our website.
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June 2007 |
Gift Vouchers Gift vouchers provides a benefit that can be turned into cash, therefore these have to be declared on forms P9, P11D or PAYE settlement agreement.
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| June 07 |
Fake Payslips Ref: http://itn.co.uk/news/ There are many unscrupulous companies around who will for a fee prepare copy payslips for employees who claim to have lost the original. We are not one of them.
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| May 07 |
Van benefit and van fuel charges Ref: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk |
April 2007 |
Spring Budget 2007
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| April 2007 |
New guidance to help manage conflict at work http://www.acas.org.uk Acas has published a new booklet, which is designed to help employers and employees better understand and manage conflict at work. Copies of the Acas booklet can be downloaded free of charge from the Acas website. |
March 2007 |
The Spring 2007 newsletter is out now for registered clients only. |
| March 2007 |
Contractors Industry
Scheme Ref: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk Nine factsheets offering further guidance on the New Construction Industry Scheme are available here.
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Feb 2007 |
Maternity
Statutory Payments – rates 2007/08 Ref: www.businesslink.gov.uk & www.directgov.gov.uk
From
April 2007, the 1st 6 weeks of payment is 90% of the employees average weekly
earnings. The remaining 33 weeks will be paid at £112.75. If the
employee average pay is less than £112.75, then they will get the lesser rate
for the remaining 33 weeks.
http://www.compupaye.com/support
for registered clients only. |
Feb 2007 |
Year End Tax Review The Year End Review 2007 edition is now available free online for registered clients only. |
| Jan 2007 |
Increased Holiday
Entitlement Ref: http://www.dti.gov.uk |
| Jan 2007 |
New Statutory Sick Rates http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ From 6 April 2007, employees with average weekly earnings of £87.00 or more qualifies for SSP @ £72.55 per week. More information is in the SSP support page.
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Dec 2006
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Christmas dinner Ref: http://uk.accaglobal.com/news/ http://www.bizhelp24.com Q) Will our staff have to pay additional taxes if we provide them with a Christmas dinner? A) This is a tax allowable treat for your employees provided the total expenditure for the event including travel does not exceed £150 per person for the tax year. |
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Dec 2006 |
Christmas Party Free Advice
For Employers
Acas has produced a list of FAQ relating to
Christmas party issues. Business help offers free advice. |
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Nov 2006
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Nov 2006
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Statutory Maternity/Adoption Pay Ref: www.dwp.gov.uk Ref: www.businesslink.gov.uk & www.directgov.gov.uk Paid leave has been extended from 26 to 39 weeks. If the baby is due on or after 1 April 2007, then the woman qualifies for 39 weeks SMP. More information is in the Maternity support page.
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| Oct 2006 |
Statutory Sick Pay Employees aged under 16 will be eligible for SSP. Employees over 65 who were previously sick can now be paid SSP through your company from 1st October onwards as SSP would have been disallowed for the previous periods. However, 3 Waiting Days will need to be served first. Therefore for employees over 65 working Mon-Fri, the first payable day of SSP is 5/10/2006. More information is also on our new Age Restrictions support page and page 4 and 6 of the Employers Bulletin which you can download.
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Sept 2006
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National Minimum Wage
Ref: www.compupaye.com/support If your organisation pays the
minimum wage, you will need to budget
from 1 October 2006
because £5.05 increases to £5.35 for adults. £4.25 increases to £4.45 for 18-21
yr olds and for 16-17 year old, the rate will increase from £3.00 to £3.30
phr. Visit the DTI website for full details.
http://www.dti.gov.uk |
Sept 2006 |
PAYE Compliance Inspections Ref: http://www.compupaye.com/support HMRC aims to reduce the burden of inspection on the vast majority of business that comply with their tax obligations. If you have received notification of a PAYE Inspection we can supply
the payroll data on CD which the Revenue will now accept.
As standard the data is
encrypted so that it cannot be read by anyone except by the HMRC. |
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Aug 2006 |
Age
Discrimination Ref: http://www.agepositive.gov.uk
The current age limits of 16 and 65 on entitlement to Statutory
Payments will be removed from 1 October 2006. |
| Aug 2006 |
Rolled Up Holiday Pay The practice of making payments for statutory holiday entitlement through a system of ‘rolled-up holiday pay’ has been ruled unlawful by the European Court of Justice as it contravenes the EU Working Time Directive. More information is in the Holiday support page.
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Free Payroll Brochure For more information on our payroll services, you can contact us giving an overview of your requirements or you can complete the quotation request form. You can also download the brochure here. |
