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We have been advised that we need to make a payment to HMRC through PAYE for some non cash benefit to an employee for shares they purchased.
It is for shares classified as RCA and the government website suggests it should be possible to add the value…
Last week, the Employment Appeal Tribunal made a significant ruling about overtime and how it affects holiday pay.
In other news, banking is under review. And there’s news that stress is the main cause of absence at work - we look at how your business…
The Chancellor gave his Autumn Statement yesterday. We've summarised the most important changes for small businesses below, some of which were previously announced in the Budget earlier this year.
PAYE
The Personal Allowance is to increase to…
I've received a letter from DWP re DEA and although calculation seems straightforward, mechanisms of payment seem separate to payroll return process. Is this right does anyone know? cheers
I know that you are not supposed to issue P60s for leavers and that Sage 50 Payroll omits these employees when printing these forms. However, what happens when an employee has left in Month 12 with a leaving date of 31st March 2015? They will not be receiving…
I am in the process of filing the FPS for one of my clients for Week 18 and noticed that it is including a leaver who left in May 2015 (just the leaving date, no liability). Any ideas why? I have checked back in my records and the leaver details were…
Hi, I might need to pay an employee unexpectedly after I've issued his P45. I've found advice on GOV.UK, but cant find the 'payment after leaving indicator' and am a bit wary of adding payment to 'year to date'. is there any help anywhere? thanks, ap…
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…
If an employee leaves towards the beginning of a month and normal paydate is towards the end of the month can I pay the leaver and give them a P45 when they leave or do I need to wait until normal payday when everyone else is paid?
I hope I'm posting this in the right place. I've just had an email about the payroll year end update being mandatory from Monday. Does this mean I won't be able to get in my program without installing it? Why do they keep making them mandatory?
We have a leaver who's last working day was in M12, but isn't due to be paid his final wage until M1. To process my year end I believe I have to process him as a leaver beforehand, so how do I go about it? The final payrun and FPS submissions have all…
I have just realised that I have submitted the final FPS for a client but forgot to submit an EPS for Month 12 to notify HMRC of SMP to be offset against the Month 12 PAYE payment. Do I need to wait until after 19th April 2016 and submit an EYU?
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…
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…
From April Employers with an annual Pay bill of £3,000,000 will be required to pay an apprenticeship levy of 0.5% on the pay bill. Could you advise what reporting are Sage doing to assist in the monthly calculation and payment of the levy?
Why oh why do i keep receiving late payment notices regarding my FPS not being submitted on time? I have checked and they were done on the wednesday prior to the friday they were due. Anyone else experiencing this?
