Payroll

Our payroll services can handle the burden of managing maternity and paternity pay accurately so that you don’t have to.

We offer advice on:

• Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and leave
• Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) and leave
• Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP) and leave
• Maternity allowance for those who don’t qualify for SMP
• Parental leave
• Flexible working hours

Auto-enrolment applies to eligible staff who meet the statutory age and earnings tests.

As these thresholds are set each year, we’ll check the current limits for you when you begin working with us.

Our payroll services help you with:

• Understanding contribution type
• Contribution rates
• Salary sacrifice options
• Pension consolidation
• Scheme selection
• Compliance monitoring

Tax credits can be a good supplement to income. Although these are paid by the state into an individual’s account, we still offer payroll services to advise you and your employees on:

• Claiming tax credits
• Renewing tax credits
• The introduction of Universal Credit

We can advise employees on tax credits and other benefits and explain current employer-supported childcare options.

Note that the traditional childcare voucher scheme closed to new entrants in 2018, but we can explain the alternatives that might be available.

We can help you understand:

• Payrolling obligations
• Eligibility
• Promotion

Offering your employees a host of tax-free benefits is an excellent way to reward them for the hard work that they have put into the business over the year. Our payroll services can help you determine which benefits fit your business the best.

Tax-free benefits could include:

• Mobile phones
• Staff activities
• Travel
• Office accommodation or supply
• Home working
• Relocation
• Long service awards
• Medical treatment
• Parking
• And more…

Part of our payroll services focuses on advising how and when employees would benefit from sacrificing some of their salary to acquire benefits. There is a range of salary sacrifice benefits that we can help you understand.

We offer advice on:

• Childcare voucher salary sacrifice
• Additional employer pension contributions
• Cycle-to-work schemes
• Company Cars
• Parking
• Work-related training
• Effect of salary sacrifice on tax credits, life cover, maternity/paternity pay, or mortgage applications

Business expenses can be overlooked by businesses that try and escape the hassle of having to report them. Our payroll services can handle the hassle and keep you compliant.

We can advise you on:

• What can be claimed as a business expense
• Maintaining detailed expense records
• Filing P11D returns
• Claiming dispensations

Sometimes, employees receive PAYE coding notices from HMRC where there have been complications with tax codes. Our payroll services are a useful tool in helping avoid any further complications with tax codes.

We can help you:

• Check employees’ coding notice
• Make changes to their payroll to correct PAYE coding errors
• Help employees repay tax through PAYE
• Ensure their payroll is up-to-date to reduce coding notices