• Happy birthday to us… Dataplan looking good at 50!

    Written on 02 Jul 2019 by Stewart Waddell

    The bunting is up, the cake has been cut and we are delighted to celebrate 50 years in payroll this year. We’ve got some great events to celebrate, but how did it all start... At…

  • 5 Minutes with... Anthony Brewitt

    Written on 01 Jul 2019 by Tony Brewitt

    Anthony (Tony) joined Dataplan in 2015 on Star Wars day, May the 4th. Having previously run a Design Studio for over a decade, Tony brings a vast amount of knowledge in user…

  • 5 Minutes with… Kay

    Written on 03 Jun 2019 by Kay Graves

    Kay joined Dataplan back in September 2015 as a project co-ordinator. Previous to this she enjoyed a 35 year career within the Banking profession and stepped into payroll excited…

  • Off Payroll Working in the Private Sector (IR35)

    Written on 25 Apr 2019 by Paul Chappell

    Are you ready for the move to employer responsibility from April 2020. IR35 is becoming an increasingly hot topic as we approach the date of April 2020 when legislative change…

  • The Mystery of the K0 Tax Code??!!!

    Written on 18 Apr 2019 by Paul Chappell

    This is nothing to do with boxing, although the issue of a code KO has floored me. K codes were introduced by HMRC to recover tax from income that was not being taxed in another…

  • Hiccup in our payroll software affecting production of some P60s

    Written on 16 Apr 2019 by Stewart Waddell

    As part of our ongoing software development, this year we made changes to ensure that P60s with a zero gross are not printed. In the past all P60s were printed regardless of the…

  • PAYE Real Time Information (RTI) and the affect that payment dates can have on Universal Credit payments

    Written on 04 Apr 2019 by Paul Chappell

    Most employees are paid on the same date each month, or the last working day of each month. However some employees are paid weekly, every 2 weeks or every 4 weeks. But what has…

  • 5 Minutes with… Ed Bergdahl

    Written on 01 Apr 2019 by Ed Bergdahl

    Ed has been with Dataplan for just 18 months but in that time has made a big impression and contribution. Ed is a Payroll Professional in our busy Education Team. How has Dataplan…

  • Additional tax free benefits announced to appeal to the millennial workforce

    Written on 01 Apr 2019 by Paul Chappell

    Millennials are a growing and influential section in today’s workforce. Defined as people born between 1981 and 1996, this group of high-earning 20 to 30 somethings are tech-savvy…

  • The HMRC personal tax app – take control of your tax

    Written on 20 Mar 2019 by Jack SImpson

    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…