ADP’s Global Payroll Solution Delivers Unique Scalability from a Single Expert Source
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Posted May 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
This week’s newsletter is unquestionably technical. The lightest of the subjects covered is the £96,000 fine imposed on the owners of a restaurant for employing a number of illegal immigrants. But I predict that few readers will cope with the whole of the “P35 Question 6” discussion and only a handful of die-hard pension payroll enthusiasts will delight in the intricacies of thirteen new types of authorised lump sum and pension payments. But perhaps you will treat those comments as a challenge and prove me wrong.
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Posted May 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
Question 6 in the Part 3 – Checklist section of the P35 Employer Annual Return is poorly worded and confusing. There are two parts to the question: Continue reading
Posted May 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
On 13 May 2009, the UK Border Agency announced that the owners of a Colchester restaurant had been fined £96,000 for employing illegal workers - the largest fine ever handed down by a court in the UK for such an offence. The directors were each found guilty on 12 May at Harwich Magistrates Court of six offences contrary to Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.
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Posted May 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
Among the changes made to the tax rules for pension schemes from 6 April 2006 were provisions that allow only specified lump sum payments to be paid from pension schemes without incurring unauthorised payment charges and surcharges of up to 55%. There are a number of such authorised payments, the most common being the pension commencement lump sums, up to 25% of the pension fund, and the trivial commutation lump sums. The rules governing authorised payments are set out in Schedule 29 of the Finance Act 2004 and are taxed under the PAYE rules explained on pages 20 to 22 of booklet CWG2 Employer Further Guide to PAYE and NICs.
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Posted May 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
Warning Comes Following Probe Into MPs’ Expense Claims
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Posted May 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
Nottingham, 21st May 2009 – Having put out a formal tender in May 2008, Oxford City Council has selected MidlandHR’s iTrent solution for a hosted HR and bureau payroll service. Designed to bring data to life and free up administration time, iTrent will help the council’s 1,500 strong employees in providing a wide range of services and balancing the needs of Oxford’s residents, local businesses and tourists.
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Posted May 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
(London, 19th May 2009) The current global recession has put reward strategies under the spotlight like never before, according to new research carried out by leading reward provider, Thomsons Online Benefits.
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Posted May 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust’s ‘Adaptive ESR Payroll Project’ has been shortlisted for the Healthcare People Management Association Awards in the category ‘Innovation and Best Practice Using ESR’.
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Posted May 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
Anyone involved in any way with the employment of temporary agency workers should look carefully at the Government’s proposals to implement the European Directive. The Directive requires equal treatment with the permanent employees of the hirer after not less than 12 weeks. The initial proposals have been published but we are probably less than year away from the introduction of the new rules.
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Posted May 18th, 2009 | No Comments »