Pre-election purdah prevents civil servants from publishing material relating to the EU referendum. It runs from 27th May until 23rd June. However, it also seems to be an opportunity for… read more →
At the Autumn Statement last year George Osborne gave HMRC £1.3bn to make them ‘the most digitally advanced tax administration in the world by 2020′. Workshops followed post-Christmas and it… read more →
Last Thursday (10th March) HMRC announced on their PAYE service issues page, and to some software developers, that they had discovered an issue with Scottish income tax codes. This was… read more →
The amended New Starter Checklist was noticeable by its absence when all the other employer documentation was published for the next tax year in late February. So it was good… read more →
From 6th April 2016, the new exemption for employers to provide employees and pensioners with trivial benefits of up to £50 in value comes into force. HMRC have now published… read more →
The Employment Rights (increase of limits) order (Northern Ireland) 2016 is in force today to amend some of the employment law limits – there are marginal changes this year as… read more →
On 4th February the government published some further details about how the apprenticeship levy, to be introduced on 6th April 2017, will work in practice. It will be based on a… read more →
In my last posting for 2015, I find myself wondering if this is the end of 2015 or the beginning, as we have had a mixture of ‘nothing has changed’… read more →
The Work and Pensions Committee have begun an enquiry into the impact that auto-enrolment will have on the 1.8m micro employers (or more precisely PAYE schemes) who have to stage over the… read more →
As expected, it was announced yesterday that the weekly rates for SMP, SAP, ShPP, and SPP will remain at £139.58 for 2016/17, equally SSP will remain at £88.45. All NICs… read more →
