The Payroll Blog

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…

When you ask your employees if they would like to sacrifice some salary, there initial reaction will be ‘no don’t take my money!’ However, with auto enrolment pensions now being…

Employment Allowance from 2020/21 – fundamental changes ahead Since its inception at the start of 2014/15, the rules surrounding Employment Allowance (EA) have remained fairly…

We are now less than 6 months away from the IR35 (Off Payroll Working) reforms hitting the private sector. Those of you in the public sector have had the privilege of having to…

The dark nights pulling in only mean one thing in the world of payroll - it won’t be long before it is Christmas payroll time! Payroll in December can be pretty challenging, with…

Lucy started working at Dataplan in 2017 as a member of the Customer Services Team after a career change from teaching. In 2018, she joined the Projects Team as Project Co-…