The Payroll Blog

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…