What do you get from an Outsourced Payroll Services Provider?
Here at JLP Payroll Services we provide a quick, efficient and accurate outsourced payroll service for our clients, who are mainly small businesses that don?t have a dedicated or separate HR or finance department to run the payroll internally. Using us means they don?t have to employ anyone to run it for them, allowing them to concentrate on running their business. Apart from all the obvious things about running a payroll - PAYE, NI, holiday pay, maternity pay to name a few - the most...
Exemptions to Auto-Enrolment
Are There Exemptions to Auto-Enrolment for Workplace Pensions? Workplace Pensions have been enshrined in law for quite some time now, and the process involved for companies to set up these schemes is called Auto-enrolment. Auto enrolment has been rolling out steadily, starting with the largest companies, and is now becoming a reality for smaller companies, most of whom will be required to operate workplace pension schemes by early 2017. Indeed every business in the UK must have completed the...
Exceptions to The National Minimum Wage
The National Minimum and Living Wages - Who Gets Them? As an outsourced payroll services provider, we are often asked questions about the National Minimum and National Living Wages, not least regarding who gets what since the introduction of the National Living Wage earlier this year. This article summarises who gets what and also looks at the exceptions, because as with any complex piece of legislation, there are exceptions. Who Qualifies? Almost everyone who is at school leaving age (defined...
Auto-Enrolment. Don’t Pay Over the Odds
Auto-Enrolment Costs: Set-Up and On-Going Costs. Don't Pay Over the Odds With auto-enrolment continuing to press-on for SMEs, most companies will know what they need to do and by when to comply with Workplace Pensions. If this can be done in-house, so much the better, but quite often for SMEs there is neither the in-house experience nor time to do so, which often means going outside to get help and advice. Of course, this is a perfectly acceptable thing to do, if you know the right people to...
Payroll Services and the Marriage Tax Allowance
The Marriage Tax Allowance - Millions are Missing Out As Payroll Services specialists we're often asked if there are any easy - and legal - ways of increasing take home pay. The answer is yes: The Marriage Tax Allowance. If you're married, or in a civil partnership, then the government's Marriage Tax Allowance introduced in April 2015 could provide a tax break of up to ?220 (in the current 2016/17 tax year) for doing nothing other than applying for it. And yet it is estimated that over 3.5...
