HMRC have told us for several years now that we must file our payroll returns on or before the date the employee is paid. Most employers have a regular payment date and as a payroll bureau we ensure that we file the return on or before that payment date. But what happens if you forget to or are unable to file a return on the payment date? …
We are often asked this question by business owners taking on their first employee particularly if they are not going to be working many hours. Employers believe that because they aren't paying their employee very much they don't need to put them on the payroll but that is not necessarily the case. Or perhaps because they are just taking them on for a trial period of a week or month they think it is a waste of time adding them to the payroll. Neither of these reasons will be considered by HMRC as an acceptable excuse for not putting your employee on the payroll if it is found later that they should have been. …
As a business we are not very good at sharing the feedback we get from our clients. In fact we don't share it at all unless you happen to be looking at our website because you need a bookkeeper or someone to take on your payroll. We have received some fantastic feedback from our clients this year, which we really appreciate so to finish our year off I thought I would share a couple of the testimonials we have received. …
Payroll is easy isn't it? There is plenty of software out there that you can use to run your payroll which will tell you how much to pay your employees. So why do employers still get their employees' pay wrong and don't notice that it is wrong? Because, as with everything, the information you get out …
The last couple of years have got busier and busier for us. Lots of new enquiries, lots of new clients and lots of one-off Xero training but with MTD looming I decided at the beginning of this year we would not take on any new clients for a few months. As lovely as it is …
