New HMRC Contact Numbers
If you need to contact HMRC then you should note that they have introduced new phone numbers for VAT, National Insurance, income tax and self assessment. For most people the new numbers will reduce the cost of calling these helplines. However, the waiting time has not, in our experience, improved. We were waiting for 35 … Continue reading New HMRC Contact Numbers
The HMRC Basic PAYE Tools is a software package designed to help those employers operating their own payroll. It can be used by employers with nine or fewer employees and calculate the tax and National Insurance Contributions for employees and then enables the employer to report the necessary payroll information to HMRC under Real Time … Continue reading HMRC Basic PAYE Tools Software Package
HMRC has published the advisory fuel rates to operate from 1 June 2013. Advisory fuel rates are HMRC-approved rates which apply where employers reimburse employees for business travel in their company cars, and where employees reimburse the cost of fuel used for private travel in a company car. Using the advisory rates will mean that … Continue reading Latest Advisory Fuel Rates To Run From June 2013
You may be liable to this new tax charge if you, or your partner, have an individual income of more than £50,000 and one of you gets Child Benefit or contributions towards the upkeep of a child. Want to opt out of child benefit to avoid the High Income Child Benefit Charge in 2013/14? From … Continue reading High Income Child Benefit Charge
If you employ someone then it is important that you understand your obligations to provide paid holiday. We are grateful to Croner Publications for the following article. The Employment Tribunal recently awarded £4,000 to a part-time chip shop worker after the owner denied her holiday pay. The 18-year old girl had been employed for over … Continue reading Employment Pay And Paid Holiday Rules Explained