27 March 2020
For many employees this will be their first time working from home on a full-time basis. Now the IT is up and running, and the novelty is starting to wear off, it would be advisable for employers to consider their obligations and how to practically interpret them during these unprecedented times.
26 March 2020
Through the challenging times of coronavirus, we thought we’d cover the frequency asked questions covering payroll and employment related tax information for businesses here.
26 March 2020
Find some of the frequently asked questions about statutory sick pay (SSP) in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Government has confirmed that it intends to reform the off-payroll working rules (commonly known as IR35) from 6 April 2021. This change will impact the estimated 20,000 recruitment agencies who provide off-payroll workers via intermediaries, such as personal service companies (PSCs), to medium and large businesses in the private sector and to the public sector.
23 March 2020
Following the introduction of the rules in the public sector in April 2017, some employers have tried to pass on National Insurance Contributions (NIC) (13.8%) and the Apprenticeship Levy (0.5%) costs to contractors. This is potentially unlawful.
Can you renegotiate contracts to include deductions for employer’s NIC?23 March 2020
For the purposes of the off-payroll working rules, one of the key questions is whether the engaged individual would (for tax or NICs purposes) have been an employee of the client if they had been working directly for it rather than engaged through an intermediary.
23 March 2020
On 22 March the Chancellor announced a new job retention scheme for all UK employers whatever their size. It operates instead of redundancy or lay off.
28 February 2020
Is it sex discriminatory to offer enhanced maternity pay to mothers on maternity leave, but only pay fathers on shared parental leave at the statutory rate for shared parental pay?
13 January 2020
HMRC guidance on determining an individual’s employment tax status includes key factors such as: personal service, mutuality of obligation and right of control. What impact will the Good Work Plan have on this?
13 January 2020
There is a key category of engaged individual via a PSC where terminating the arrangement with the intermediary as a part of changes to IR35 workforce structuring is a particular risk.
