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Issue No 12 - 12 December 2002

Pre-Budget Report 2002: Changes to Tax and NICs.

Employee Benefit Trusts: Confirmation of Tax and NICs liabilities.

New forms and booklets: Many updated booklets.

Deductions from wages: 2 cases highlight important principles.

Issue No 11 - 28 November 2002

Future of pensions: Conflicting views about the future.

National Minimum Wage: Conflicting views about the 2003 and 2004 changes.

New NICs rates and table letters: New test data provides insight on employment costs.

Double Taxation Conventions: Draft agreements with South Africa and Taiwan.

Working Time Regulations: Extension of rights to excluded sectors.

SMP Calculator: Still gives erroneous results.

Issue No 10 - 7 November 2002

Advisory mileage rates for company cars : When mileage payments create a fuel scale charge...

New publications: Pensions, construction industry and employment law.

Employment Regulation - striking a balance : Proposals for easing the burden.

Issue No 9 - 24 October 2002

Temporary NI Numbers: Apologies - and a glimpse of the future?

Tracing NI Numbers: Changes to tracing procedure.

Construction Industry : Revised Construction Industry guidance.

P11D Working Sheets : New and revised for 2002/03.

Car or Van? : Double cab pick-ups.

Issue No 8 - 10 October 2002

National Minimum Wage : Revenue recovers £5 million for underpaid employees.

Statutory Sick Pay : 13 week qualification for temporary staff removed.

Tax Credit information : Information pack released by Revenue.

Issue No 7 - 26 September 2002

NI table letters and deferment : Important changes to NI table letters have been announced.

Compliance and human rights: Human rights issues in the course of enquiries & compliance reviews.

Payroll records and data protection : Compliance with the new code of practice.

Temporary registration cards : in the Construction Industry.

Issue No 6 - 12 September 2002

Updated Revenue leaflets and booklets : Several pieces of Revenue literature have been reissued.

National Minimum Wage : New rates from 1 October 2002.

New tax credits : Existing tax credits will be replaced...

Union Learning Representatives : Guidance on the role of Union Learning Representatives.

Statutory holiday leave : The TUC claims a loophole in the Working Time Regulations.

IR35 and composite service companies : Clarification on the application of the IR35 legislation.

Payroll Standard : The Revenue's rigorous accreditation process.

Issue No 5 - 28 August 2002

Employment Act 2002 : Several new payroll-related employment rights to plan for.

Payslips: Updated DTI booklet now available.

Average earnings for SMP: Potential impact of a case referred to the European Court of Justice.

Consultation on agency workers: Draft EU directive and its impact on temporary agency workers.

Review of employment status: Opportunity to influence the correction of inconsistencies.

Data Protection Code of Practice: Draft code on monitoring of empoyees in the workplace.

General Commissioners: Guidance on appeals against Revenue decisions.

Fuel benefit charge 2003/04: The new calculation and withdrawing from the benefit.

Issue No 4 - 18 July 2002

Payroll accreditation : 14 systems now meet the Revenue's payroll standards.

Pension scheme manuals : CA14A Termination of Contracted-out Employment has been updated.

Share scheme manual : New manual covering the taxation of share and share-related benefits.

Tax equalisation : The Revenue's approach to the taxation of the benefit of tax equalisation.

Payroll Giving : The Revenue reaches its target a year early.

Rewriting tax law: The Government is consulting on a new Income Tax Bill.

Issue No 3 - 4 July 2002

Termination holiday pay : Existing rules confirmed for recovering "overtaken" holiday.

Young Workers Directive : Consultation on new proposals and regulations.

Benefits for disabled employees : Special tax exemptions introduced.

Issue No 2 - 20 June 2002

Fixed-term work : Fixed-Term Employees Regulations will come into force in October.

Agency workers : The Government intends to introduce new rules.

Working Time Regulations - excluded sectors : EC and Member States extend the provisions.

P11Ds for directors : Revenue will now allow dispensations for directors.

Self assessment records : Revised booklet for employees .

Reduced-rate contributions : New information for married women under this arrangement.

Issue 225 of Payroll Briefing has been published by Croner.CCH as issue 1.

Issue No 1 - 11 June 2002

National Insurance numbers : Revenue guidance on completing forms when there is no NI number.

Employer's Budget Pack: All employers should now have received this pack with full contents.

Class 1A NICs: Clarification on calculating fuel scale charges, following misleading press release.

Applying the P7X: Complications in applying the Budget tax changes in the middle of a tax week.

Maternity, paternity and adoption: The Government seeks feedback on draft regulations.

Termination payments: Updated Revenue guidance on termination payments.

Test data: Test data updated to reflect the tax and NICs rates for 2002/03.

Issue No 224 - 23 May 2002

Paid holiday leave : Two significant Appeal Tribunal decisions.

Budget clarification : FAQs and the Revenue's answers.

Increases in NICs: What the 2003/04 increases will really cost.

Pensions update: Latest electronic version of Booklet IR76 available.

"Look after the pounds..." continued again!: The ongoing "penny-rounding" saga.

Juror allowances: New financial loss allowances.

Booklet revisions: Booklets IR69 and IR122 have been revised.

Tax credits: Extended news item detailing the nature of the new credits.

Issue No 223

The Budget for Payrollers: Implications of the announcements for payroll departments.

Summary of the 2002 Budget Statement: full details above.

Issue No 222 - 24 April 2002

Flexible working : New statutory right to seek change in hours, times and place of work to care for a child.

Using your own vehicle for work : New booklet for employees and reminders about lump sum payments.

Data Protection code of practice: First instalment of employment code of practice published.

Issue No 221 - 12 April 2002

Parental Leave : Employees with children born between December 1994 and December 1999 now qualify.

Parental Leave : Extract from an article in Payroll Briefing in February 2000, giving a summary of the original rules for Parental Leave.

Company vans: Working Sheet instructions corrected.

Fuel scale charges: New rates for 2002/03 tax year.

Budget changes - in advance!: Tax bands, Children's tax credits etc., but they may be increased further.

Personal services through intermediaries: New measures to remove expenses and benefits from calculation of "deemed payment".

SMP software specification: Technical specification for developers casts light on changes in SMP rules from April 2003.

Issue No 220 - 28 March 2002

Part-time Workers Regulations : The government has proposed making two amendments.

Pension changes: Extended news item covering changes affecting company and state pensions.

Issue No 219 - 6 March 2002

Buses and bikes : Regulations to come into force on 6 April 2002.

Justices of the Peace: New guidance notes on claiming Justice's allowances available.

Revised Revenue booklets : An updated version of booklet IR125 is available and a new booklet is due.

Paternity Pay: Special provisions for fathers receiving income support.

Issue No 218 - 14 February 2002

New Revenue help books : Six new E-series booklets have been published by the Revenue.

Small Employer's Relief scheme (2): First description of the way the threshold increase will be handled.

Coding notice problems : Formula for taxing company cars changes from April 2002.

Budget date 2002 : Announcements and implications of a late budget.

State Second Pension : Replacement for the SERPS will take effect on 6 April 2002.

Statutory payments and awards : Increases effective from 1 February 2002.

Issue No 217 - 4 February 2002

Paying the Collector in euros : Euro payments to the Revenue are accepted, but...

Small Employer's Relief scheme (1): Employers will benefit from new threshold from 6 April 2002.

Young workers: New Regulations still not introduced.

Statutory limits: Limits applied to a range of employment provisions increased from 1 February 2002.

Fixed term work (2): New draft Regulations have now been issued.

Issue No 216 - 17 January 2002

Scottish arrestment orders : New deduction rates came into effect on 3 December 2001.

PAYE internet service : The number of Revenue approved computerised payroll schemes has increased.

The Carter Review of payroll services : A close analytical look of Patrick Carters's review.

Issue No 215 - 3 January 2002

Mileage allowances : The Revenue's new Approved Mileage Allowance Payments.

Fuel scale charge : Three options linking fuel scale charges with carbon dioxide emission levels.

Revenue official interest rates : Revenue's official interest rate changes mid-year.

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