What’s included in your outsourced payroll service?
When you outsource your payroll, what exactly do you outsource? If you’ve landed on these pages in the past, you’ll no doubt have read why outsourcing your payroll is a good idea. We’ve spoken (rather...
View ArticleWhy Are D&I Initiatives Not Working?
UK businesses spend more than £6 billion on diversity and inclusion initiatives each year. In the wake of #MeToo, George Floyd and BLM, you might imagine there’d be something to show for them. Yet...
View ArticleShould Remote Workers Be Paid Less?
In May, law firm Stephenson Harwood set the cat amongst the pigeons by announcing its staff could work from home permanently, but only if they accepted a 20% pay cut. Staff could, however, retain their...
View ArticleWill The Cost-of-Living Crisis End ‘The Great Resignation’?
“The rising cost of living is likely to put more people off changing jobs this year, leading to slower wage growth.” That was the view of Gabriella Dickens at Pantheon Macroeconomics at the start of...
View ArticleHMRC Announces New Fraud Squad
In late April, the Chancellor announced a new “elite fraud squad” to “crack down on criminal gangs who rip off the taxpayer.” Members of the existing fraud squad who, in late 2021 were lauded for...
View ArticleHow To Fix Broken Registry Items On Windows 11 5 Quick Ways
Since an improper registry can lead to programs malfunctioning during their run, they can also indirectly cause data loss. We recommend you Restoro, a program that uses a patented technology that can...
View ArticleCan Workers Refuse to Return to the Office?
Do you have a legal right to demand your people return to the office? And even if the answer is ‘yes’, should you exercise that right? In April, when Conservative minister Jacob Rees-Mogg launched his...
View ArticleReal Living Wage Increase Brought Forward
The Living Wage Foundation has announced the next increase in the real Living Wage will be brought forward to September 2022 in a response to the cost-of-living crisis. But how will this affect you?...
View ArticleWill The NI Rate Rise Happen?
The ink is barely dry on our latest Just Payroll newsletter which reports, among much else, that National Insurance will increase by 1.25% in April for employers and employees. But will it actually...
View ArticleSocial Levy Payslip Rider Sparks Controversy
A request by HMRC to add a message to payslips has gone down badly in some quarters. But even if you don’t add the rider, what information should you include on your payslips? It’s fair to say that the...
View ArticleAn IR35 update
HMRC has won two IR35 appeals based on mutuality of consent issues. But if the courts “do not feel confident enough about the correct conclusion” to make a final decision on an individual’s IR35...
View ArticleWhat’s included in your outsourced payroll service?
When you outsource your payroll, what exactly do you outsource? If you’ve landed on these pages in the past, you’ll no doubt have read why outsourcing your payroll is a good idea. We’ve spoken (rather...
View ArticleWhy Are D&I Initiatives Not Working?
UK businesses spend more than £6 billion on diversity and inclusion initiatives each year. In the wake of #MeToo, George Floyd and BLM, you might imagine there’d be something to show for them. Yet...
View ArticleShould Remote Workers Be Paid Less?
In May, law firm Stephenson Harwood set the cat amongst the pigeons by announcing its staff could work from home permanently, but only if they accepted a 20% pay cut. Staff could, however, retain their...
View ArticleWill The Cost-of-Living Crisis End ‘The Great Resignation’?
“The rising cost of living is likely to put more people off changing jobs this year, leading to slower wage growth.” That was the view of Gabriella Dickens at Pantheon Macroeconomics at the start of...
View ArticleHMRC Announces New Fraud Squad
In late April, the Chancellor announced a new “elite fraud squad” to “crack down on criminal gangs who rip off the taxpayer.” Members of the existing fraud squad who, in late 2021 were lauded for...
View ArticleCan Workers Refuse to Return to the Office?
Do you have a legal right to demand your people return to the office? And even if the answer is ‘yes’, should you exercise that right? In April, when Conservative minister Jacob Rees-Mogg launched his...
View ArticleReal Living Wage Increase Brought Forward
The Living Wage Foundation has announced the next increase in the real Living Wage will be brought forward to September 2022 in a response to the cost-of-living crisis. But how will this affect you?...
View ArticleIn-house or outsourced? What payroll professionals think!
We spend a lot of time extolling the virtues of outsourcing payroll. Then again, we’re a payroll company, so you probably wouldn’t expect anything else. But what about a more balanced view? The...
View ArticleHMRC Tax Scams – An Update
As a new scam starts doing the rounds, it’s worth reminding yourself to stay alert when you receive any call, text or email purporting to be from HMRC. The (not very) funny thing about scams is that,...
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