Tips, gratuities, service charges and troncs The rules regarding tips, gratuities, service charges and Troncs are quite complex, and are beyond the scope of this guide. More detailed information about the PAYE tax & National Insurance due on such payments can be found in the GOV.UK Guidance on tips, gratuities, service charges and troncs –…
The Government has recently published the ‘Employment Rights Bill’, which (amongst other things) proposes a number of changes to the way that Sick Pay (SSP) and also Parenting Pay (SMP, SPP etc) will operate. Should this legislation pass, then Payroll Manager will implement the necessary changes via a scheduled software update. We do not expect…
Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (SNCP) IMPORTANT: The details in this guide apply to tax years 2025-26 onwards (i.e. SNCP is not applicable to tax years 2024-25 or previous) An employee may be eligible for Neonatal Care Leave and Statutory Neonatal Care Pay if they or their partner have a child that requires neonatal care. The…
Problems sending emails using Outlook, Office 365 and Hotmail accounts We are aware that Microsoft have recently made changes to the security settings on some of their users’ accounts, and those changes mean that when users try and send emails through Payroll Manager they get an “Authentication unsuccessful, basic authentication is disabled” error. For some…
P800 forms – week 53 payments in tax year 2023-24 If you have employees that were paid weekly on a Friday then they may have received a ‘Week 53’ payment in 2023-24, which is quite normal. Because of the way that HMRC calculate tax for ‘week 53’ payments, then this may mean that an employee…
Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) Details of how Payroll Manager handles each aspect of CIS are given in the sections below: 1. Adding a new subcontractor 2. Verifying a subcontractor 3. Recording payments to Subcontractors 4. CIS Payment and Deduction Statement 5. CIS 300 Monthly return 1. Adding a new subcontractor From the main menu in…
9 May 2024 HMRC has recently made changes to it’s online service. This means that if you’re using Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Server 2008, Server 2012 or 2012R2 on your computer, you won’t be able to submit online returns to HMRC via Payroll Manager. On 9 May 2024 HMRC removed support for ‘CBC ciphers’, which…
Payroll Year End 2023-24 We have published a series of guides to help you with the Payroll Year End process for 2023-24. These include a guide on sending your final RTI return for the year, as well as instructions as to how to move forward and start processing payroll for 2024-25. Please see Year End…
The Chancellor announced a reduction in the main rate of Employee’s (primary) class 1 contribution rates from 10% to 8% effective from April 2024. This change has been implemented via a software update to Payroll Manager. The update was published on 11 March 2024.
Filing the last RTI return for 2023-24 HMRC require that the last RTI return for 2023-24 is marked as being the ‘Final Submission for Year’ (which Payroll Manager will automatically do for you via an EPS return). At year end you should file your FPS as usual on or before the final pay date of…