The Payroll Blog

HMRC is frequently considered to be one of the more old-fashioned public organisations, with highly bureaucratic (and heavily paper-based) processes in place. Nonetheless, HMRC…

The PAYE system for collecting tax from employees’ earnings was introduced in 1944 and has ensured that deductions from employees are paid over to HMRC. Employees have no option…

Dataplan are a fast-growing company (doubling in size in the last 3 years). To support this rapid growth, we need payroll professionals and realised a number of years ago the…

We believe in the benefit of ‘growing your own’ and many of our staff started out in our Apprenticeship programme. Pruedence is an Apprentice Education Payroll Administrator. How…

Whilst we were all preparing for Christmas and all the associated festivities, a snappily titled document was released by HM Treasury entitled ‘Review of WLTP and Vehicle Taxes’,…

HMRC have recently announced a raft of measured aimed at employers to ensure they comply with the requirements to pay the National Minimum and National Living Wages. Specific…

It’s that time of year again where the media shifts its focus towards scrutinising companies reporting their gender pay gaps. With the reporting deadlines for both public sector…

Employers provide a remuneration package that can include benefits in kind, in addition to weekly or monthly salaries. Salary (money) is taxed through the PAYE Real Time…

HMRC’s Employer Compliance officers undertake many thousands of PAYE inspections in any 12 month period. Although HMRC will state that the main purpose of the review is to police…

The introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy at the beginning of the 2017/18 tax year has certainly had a big impact on the payroll landscape. The question of whether a company, or…