• Non Tax Resident Employees

    We employee some short-term contract EEA citizens who come to the UK from their home country for up to 6 weeks to work for us in the UK. As they are in the UK for less than 183 days, they are not tax resident in the UK but tax resident in their home country…
  • Online portal for employees to access their payslips - issue with password generation?

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    Hi there, I have received notification from a number of employees who have had issues when logging into the online portal to access their payslips. One employee advised they copy and pasted the original password which was set up when I added them as…
  • Pension Employee Rate Report

    I would like to run a report which shows each employees pension contribution rate please. It isn't the contribution value that I want to see, but rather their rate stored within each employees record. Some of our employees have chosen to increase their…
  • National holiday entitlement

    A number of our part time employees work some Bank Holidays. If my settings has 'include Bank Holiday entitlement' ticked, will it affect their entitlement?
  • New Starters - 29th and after payroll is ran - payment date is 31st

    We have two new starters that are joining us on the 29th. Will sage payroll calculate the national insurance correctly if we don't run them on the month they started and instead gave them 1 month and 3 days in the next month? Thanks in advance.
  • Common payroll questions at Christmas

    It's that time of year again, when everyone starts to think of the holiday period and a bit of time to relax. But for those of you who do the company payroll, the period leading up to Christmas can be a bit stressful, with queries about advancing pay…
  • How do I enter wages for a previous year for a new payroll client?

    I have a new payroll client who has one employee who commenced employment in August 2014 but the employer was unaware of the RTI rules. His employee was paid above the LEL but under the NI threshold so there are no deductions to report but he should have…
  • tax code increases

    Are there standard global increases for tax code suffixes/prefixes for the start of the 2016/7 tax year?
  • How to inform HMRC of leaver at end of tax year who was originally on hold

    I have a client who is a director of a company and was being paid wages up to 30th September 2015 when he reached retirement age. He requested that his wages be put on hold until further notice so I have been submitting a monthly EPS to HMRC to advise…
  • AE pension contributions being deducted before tax calculation on non salary sacrifice pension scheme

    I have a client whose AE pension contributions started on 1st April 2016 and I have noticed that the tax on the wages is being calculated after the pension contributions have been deducted. I am not sure that this is correct as it is not a salary sacrifice…
  • Apprentices

    I am currently setting up a new payroll for a client who has two apprentices. I notice that there is now an "apprentices" box on the new employee wizard to tick. What effect does this have as I have some existing clients who employ apprentices but this…
  • FPS "Have you conducted a Right to Work check?"

    I am just about to start sending my FPS for this week and note that the following is included in the Important Notice page of the FPS: "You have selected to submit the FPS details for ...... to the Government Gateway and, on an anonymous basis, send…
  • Reports - Display first name only

    Can anyone help me with the reporting module. I want to pull out an employee's first name only, but the only standard field is for all their forenames. I had a play with trying to write an expression to drop in the middle names, which worked until it…
  • Introducing our Live Sage 50 Payroll Surgery

    Throughout September we’re running Sage 50 Payroll surgeries twice a day. In these online events, one of our Sage 50 Payroll experts will be giving quick demos of processes and routines, answering common queries and you’ll get the chance to ask your questions…
  • Mass Deleting Staff

    Hi All, We have recently been non-live parallel run's on Sage 50 Payroll ahead of our first live run on 5th May (Very nervous). We had loaded our entire staff list from our outsourced payroll provider on to Sage in order to ensure our parallel run…
  • Holiday Funds

    Can you pay an employee more than the amount in their current holiday fund? I have entered an amount higher than that currently shown in the employees fund and the payslip shows a negative amount being carried forward. Is it okay to proceed with this…
  • Needed - historical report of number of employees in each pay period including those on hold as well as those paid.

    Our auditors have said there is a new requirement to report the average number of employees on the payroll for the year, and they need this info for 2015 and 2016. The trouble is that we have many casual employees who are on hold each week/month and they…
  • Sage 50 - Salary Report.

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    Hi, I'm after a salary report for our employee's. I have seen there are plenty of reports to show what we paid in a specific date range, but cannot find a report that will bring back there salary. Can anyone please offer any advice?
  • How to report a replacement car?

    An employee has replaced his company car. Previously I would have reported this on the form P46. According to your help article this form is no longer for reporting replacement cars. How do I go about this as I am not payrolling this benefit?
  • Employee has now started full time but TAX code is still BR

    We have an employee who was working for us part-time but also had another job giving us a tax code for him of BR. Making us his secondary job. About a month ago he left the other company to come on full time for us. He gave me his P45 from the other…