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In Hok to HMRC over P35 penalties? - 12 Jan 12

If you have received penalties for late filing of P35's the following may be of interest. In the recent case of Hok Limited v HMRC a P35 penalty has been overturned on the basis that HMRC waited several months before issuing penalty notices.

Penalties for late PAYE payments beging - 20 Dec 11

HMRC have commenced notifying employers of the raising of Penalties for 2010/2011 when PAYE payments have been received late. The penalties are on a sliding scale form 1% to 4%. HMRC will not charge a penalty if there was only 1 payment late.

Employed or self employed, that is the question! - 01 Dec 11

Employment status - is someone employed or self-employed? This is one of the main areas of uncertainty in the UK tax system and for businesses one of the most expensive areas to get wrong in terms of higher labour costs, or more worryingly unexpected back tax liabilities.

Stringfellows, the lapdancer and your payroll - 01 Dec 11

What has a recent Employment Tribunal (ET) between Stringfellows and one of its lapdancers got to do with your business. Well it could be quite important if you use self-employed workers.

A judge has recently ruled that a lap dancer will be allowed to appeal a recent ET decision to establish whether she was an employee of Stringfellows rather than self-employed as she was treated for tax purposes.

Universal Tax Credits and RTI - 02 Nov 11

For employers that haven't heard of it yet the Universal Credit system is the new system that will deliver benefits from 2014 onwards. And for it to work the Government need upto date, accurate real time information about employees and their pay to calculate.

That Real Time Information (or RTI) will impact on your payroll processes and will increase the amount and frequency of imformation shared with HMRC. Real Time Information is required for the one million plus people who will be claiming Universal Credit by April 2014

A cautionary tale for employers over Facebook comments - 25 Oct 11

At a recent employment tribunal it was held that dismissing an employee for uploading relatively minor work based comments onto Facebook was unfair.

Law firm Pinsent Masons reported

"W was employed as a team leader for Skoda Customer Services, an important client of her employer.  Representatives of Skoda worked along side her.  She had been employed since 2007 and had been an exemplary employee with a clean disciplinary record.

When is a self employed contractor an employee - 20 Oct 11

A recent case in the long line of many regarding employment status has gone before the courts. However, this one addressed the issue of what a contract states versus what actually happens in reality. 

Specifically. this case addressed the issue of whether an individual, who is expressly described as a self-employed contractor in his contract, is really a 'worker'.

Daniel Barnett’s Employment Law Bulletin reports:

Payroll service outsourcing - a recession beater ? - 14 Oct 11

Faced with a recession many businesses and organisations maintain where possible the customer facing / delivery parts of their business while looking to cut costs elsewhere. Typically, this is in the back office and one of the favourite areas is finance.

While vital, finance and in particular payroll is an area that can be effectively outsourced. Indeed payroll outsourcing, because of its technical nature, has commonly been outsourced for many years. The market for outsourced payroll services is now quite mature.

Employment Tribunals - help for employers at last - 04 Oct 11

George Osbourne has announced two changes that will significantly help emloyers deal with the red tape and costs when facing employment tribunals.

Mr Osbourne claims that the changes will reduce the number of Employment Tribunals and boost the economy.

Pension reform - lack of awareness - 27 Sep 11

This one is a pet subject for me but I make no apologies in repeating the theme. A recent study has again highlighted that many businesses are still not aware of the new pension rules that come into force from next year.

The survey looked at businesses that do not already provide pensions found that the employers are unlikely to auto-enrol employees into either NEST or an employer's scheme when the reforms come in. This is in clear contrast to the requirements of the new regime and highlights a lack of awareness

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