As an employer, you need to attract, retain and motivate employees, control the overheads they represent, enhance their value to the business and satisfy the demands of complex legislation. Our services will help you to bring all these issues into balance.

How do you recruit, attract, motivate and retain your staff?

Are you aware of the legislative changes to the off-payroll working rules (IR35)

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How can we help you?

We can:

  • carry out a PAYE health check to ensure your systems are compliant and mitigate your risk of HMRC visits;
  • advise on the status of individual’s not employed via the payroll, including consideration of the intermediary, agency and off-payroll working rules;
  • advise on the tax position for UK employees working overseas or non-resident individuals coming to work in the UK;
  • assist with remuneration planning and advise on employee share incentives;
  • review of benefits provided to your employees and help with reporting them to HMRC;

 

  • review of employee payments to ensure that they are compliant with the national living wage and national minimum wage (NLW/NMW) regulations
  • advise on how the CIS scheme operates and assist with CIS compliance;
  • advise on the tax treatment of termination payments;
  • assist with HMRC enquiry visits and Investigations into PAYE compliance, National Insurance payments and other issues.
  • Payroll Services

 

Case Study

Health check turns toxic

HMRC has been issuing innocuous looking questionnaires to businesses phishing for information about the health of the business’ PAYE practices and compliance.  HMRC has not been sending a copy of these notices to agents.  A client of ours received such a notice and replied to HMRC directly without speaking to ourselves thinking this would save time and fees.  A poorly informed response to one of the queries on the questionnaire created an opening for HMRC to open a full-scale enquiry into the clients’ affairs, requesting bank statements, full PAYE records etc.  Had the client spoken to one of our employment taxes team prior to submitting their response, we would have been able to provide advice on the areas which the client had left themselves exposed to additional questions from HMRC.  The enquiry was successfully closed without any additional tax being paid, but the client had incurred additional professional fees to resolve the matter.

Case Study

"But we’ve always done it that way”

A client approached us for an emergency PAYE review to uncover any issues prior to an inspection by HMRC, giving them the opportunity for disclosure if required.  We highlighted an issue with the deductions made from salary payments which took their employees below the National Minimum Wage (NMW).  The client had processes in place to ensure they reviewed the NMW and made adjustments to annual rates etc. where necessary, but a simple misunderstanding of how to calculate the effective NMW potentially exposed the client to significant penalties.  Where legislation changes, the argument that “we’ve always done it that way” will not stand up to scrutiny by HMRC. 

 

Case Study

Share schemes 

We assisted a client that was not eligible to utilise a tax advantaged share scheme such as Enterprise Management Incentives due to the industry in which it operated, by setting up a growth share scheme.  This allowed employees to purchase shares at affordable values to benefit from the future growth of the company.

Other tax services

 

Featured news

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Tax update: Furlough update

Thursday 17 June 2021

After 19 months of Government support, the furlough scheme is expected to come to an end in September 2021. There has been no indication of the scheme being extended any further but there are a few changes to be aware of in the coming months, as it begins to wind down.
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Tax update: Tips and tax

Wednesday 2 June 2021

As coronavirus restrictions are lifting, businesses have begun to welcome back customers to restaurants, bars, beauty salons, hairdressers and other venues. In these industries, it is customary for tips to be given for the service provided but, with this, comes complicated rules for the deductions of tax and national insurance such as who needs to operate and when.

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Health and Care update: Caught in the travel trap?

Tuesday 25 May 2021

Were your employees required to minimise use of public transport during the pandemic as a result of Government guidance?

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Tax update: COVID-19 and employee benefits

Wednesday 19 May 2021

The 6 July deadline for reporting employee benefits received during the 2020/21 tax year is fast approaching. With the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in a change of working patterns and behaviours for many employees, we have a quick recap of which benefits do and do not need to be reported, in particular those that may not have been considered or relevant in previous years.

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Criteria relaxed for kickstart scheme

Wednesday 10 February 2021

The Government has confirmed the removal of the minimum number of placements required to participate in its kickstart scheme, opening it up to many more employers.

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COVID-19 tests provided by an employer

Wednesday 2 December 2020

A while back, HMRC controversially released guidance suggesting that where a COVID-19 test had been provided by an employer, it would be taxable on the employee as a benefit in kind.
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Christmas parties and gifts – with a twist

Tuesday 1 December 2020

As the festive season is drawing closer, more staff Christmas parties are being cancelled as it becomes clear that we will not be able to celebrate in the usual manner.
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Can you help to kickstart a career?

Tuesday 15 September 2020

Young people are often one of the groups most affected when a recession hits – apprenticeships are cancelled, graduate recruitment is cut, and employers are understandably hesitant to invest in staff where there is uncertainty in the economy.
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Is your company van actually a car?

Thursday 20 August 2020

When purchasing a company vehicle, you may understandably believe that if it looks like a van and is called a van then it is a van! However, in some cases, HMRC may treat them as cars and recent case law supports this.
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Furloughed employees required to receive full redundancy under new law

Friday 7 August 2020

A new law has been introduced with effect from 31 July 2021 to ensure that furloughed employees receive statutory redundancy and notice pay based on their ‘normal’ wage rather than their furlough pay.
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Tax update: Loan charge review

Wednesday 8 January 2020

Just before the Christmas break, the government published details of Sir Amos Morse’s independent review of the loan charge and issued updated guidance in response.

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Tax update: Act now or PAYE later

Wednesday 20 November 2019

If your business engages with contractors you may already be aware of the off-payroll working rules (often referred to as ‘IR35’).

Related videos

Off Payroll Working Webinar - March 2021
Employment taxes December 2020

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