The Payroll Blog

Have you ever wondered what happens to your pension if you die? There are various ways that your pension fund can be paid out to your family such as a lump sum or a dependant’s…

2020 is a leap year which means an extra days work for some and it is important to consider the effects of this for your business and your employees. In 2020 the 29th of February…

Happy New Year! I thought I would start the New Year with a bang in the latest in my series of blogs; essentially Dataplan’s version of ‘IR35 for dummies.’ Don’t forget that the…

This is the third blog in my IR35/Off Payroll Intermediaries series. Of course much can happen before the 6 April 2020, when it is the turn of the private sector to join the IR35…

There has been much news floating around the payroll world lately about holiday pay. From high profile Tribunal cases to a change in legislation behind the calculation of holiday…

With a well-established Education Payroll and Pension Team, this new resource, led by our Head of Corporate Pensions Lucy Brewitt and her team assistants Sam Wingfield and Jake…

In my October blog on IR35 options I covered various alternatives for handling IR35 from sticking your head in the sand (sadly all too common) to operating IR35 correctly for…

Suzanne joined our busy Pensions Team in 2015 after several years working in HR and Payroll for a local college. How has Dataplan changed since you joined? The business and the…

It is nice to be part of a gathering of like-minded people, unfortunately there is inevitably a cost associated with getting the benefits of such associations. Professional…

On 4 October 2019, HMRC issued a snappily entitled document, ‘Ultra Low Emission Vehicles (ULEV) and Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP).ht The ULEV and WLTP…