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HM Revenue & Customs managers have discussed contingency plans for failure to pass the mini-Budget changes through Parliament, Payroll World has learned.
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An employment appeals tribunal has ruled that tip distribution schemes do not count towards the national minimum wage.
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Government ministers are to forgo pay rises for 2008/09 in the light of the economic credit crunch, and desire to prevent a wages-price upward spiral.
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Pension levies will be more than twice as high as originally expected in 2008/09.
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Research from the Institute of Payroll Professionals has revealed that payroll providers are generally not equipped to deal with UK anti-money laundering legislation.
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UK employers are turning their backs on requests to work from home. According to a survey by CIPD/KPMG, 69% of employers will never or only occasionally accept employees’ requests to work from home.
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Work experience placements are working full time and unpaid by media companies, according to a survey by the National Union of Journalists.
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Taxpayers have been waiting for a month for tax refunds due to a software glitch.
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Thousands of low-paid workers will miss out on the back-dating of the increased income tax threshold announced in the Chancellor’s emergency mini-Budget.
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The average employee took almost seven days off sick last year. According to research by the CBI and AXA, absence from work cost the UK economy £13.2bn in 2007. It also revealed that of 172 million days lost to absence in 2007, 12%, or 21 million, are thought to be non-genuine and cost the economy £1.6bn.
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Talent management specialist Jobpartners has launched a corporate social networking tool to promote employee communication and information sharing.
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Mortgage lenders have been encouraged to combat fraud in the industry. Bob Ferguson, head of financial crime policy and intelligence at the Financial Services Authority urged lenders to join its crusade against fraud. He claimed that the regulator is running the Lender’s Project and lenders need to be actively participating in it.
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Alistair Darling has performed an unprecedented u-turn as Chancellor by changing and back-dating income tax thresholds during the tax year.
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Bedfordshire police have confirmed that they are reviewing evidence that a man allegedly manufacturing and selling fake identification, including National Insurance cards, near Luton train station.
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HM Revenue & Customs employees enjoy a preferable expense account than regular workers, according to data from UHY Hacker Young. The firm claimed that employees of the Revenue do not have to provide receipts to prove that expenses have been incurred, with reported instances of employees taking overnight stays at a friends’ or relatives’ homes instead of a hotel and being able to claim £25 for the convenience.
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A survey by Virgin Money has illustrated the need for most individuals to boost pensions savings by highlighting the number of payslips due to be received between key ages and retirement.
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Payroll World has been shortlisted for Business Magazine of the Year category in the Periodical Publishers Association’s Independent Publishers Awards.
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ADP has been awarded with the first Payroll Quality Partnership (PQP) accreditation by the Institute of Payroll Professionals (IPP).
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The long awaited Equality Bill could be published by the end of April, and is set to include provisions for equal pay audits, and use of procurement by public sector bodies to promote equal pay practices in the private sector.
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The payroll profession would comfortably be able to cope with administrating payroll benefits if the current P11D process came to an end, said Karen Thomson, head of policy at the Institute of Payroll Professionals.
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Payroll office phones are already ringing as MPs and many employees absorb the reduction in take-home pay for significant numbers of individuals following this year’s Budget, Kate Upcraft told delegates in her keynote speech.
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Payroll staff gather half of all Government revenue, some £220bn, or around twice the annual budget of the NHS, Don Macarthur, head of HM Revenue & Custom's Employer Programme, told the conference.
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Most payroll staff would back a switch to moving benefits to the regular payroll, ending the annual P11D process, a survey by the Institute of Payroll Professionals indicates.
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EXCLUSIVE REPORT: HMRC P45 documents readily available to download
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An employer has been held liable by the House of Lords for the suicide of one of its employee’s engineers after a long court battle.
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A UK company was advised to send out its March pension contributions three weeks early so its employees can benefit from the 22% rate of tax relief before it drops to 20% on 6 April.
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Some 14 local authority managers earn more than the Prime Minister at £188,849, with 132 earning more than a cabinet minister at £137,579, according to a report by the Taxpayers Alliance.
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Alistair Darling confirmed the strong ‘green’ shift in taxation on cars, including company cars. He announced a reform to capital allowances for business cars to increase the incentive to move to lower emitting cars, and promised uprating of the fuel benefit charge.
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There is a 35% chance that the country will face a recession before the end of the year according to Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor Vince Cable.
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The Government has decided to postpone its proposed income shifting legislation for 12 months. It has committed to carrying out wider consultation over the way in which small businesses are taxed.
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The Government has revealed its plans to target family businesses it believes unfairly arrange income to avoid a larger tax bill. It is expected that the Government will announce a new Family Tax Bill in its budget (March 12) which, it claims, will tackle the issue of income sharing.
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The Budget announced measures on HMRC's review of powers, deterrents and safeguards.
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The National Minimum Wage will rise to £5.73 an hour in October, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced. This represents a 3.8% from the current rate of £5.52.
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The Agency Workers Bill has received its second reading in Parliament, making it increasingly likely that agency workers will receive the same rights as their permanent colleagues following its reading.
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The first council to fully outsource its payroll and HR function said it will save an estimated £50,000 a year. Dartford Borough Council in Kent is to outsource its HR and payroll function with the aim of meeting Government efficiency targets (Payroll World, News page 5, March 2008).
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Employees across the UK are switching off their emails and wearing slippers to work on Friday 1 February to support Stress Down Day.
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A third of HR departments will go green in 2008, research has revealed. Some 29% of British companies plan to bring their payroll processes online this year, removing one of the most paper-intensive parts of the business, according to research carried out by Harte Hanks.
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Employees could be entitled to holiday pay if they leave their jobs because of ill-health without taking a break during the holiday year.
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MPs and other high profile individuals cannot file their self-assessment tax forms online for security reasons, it has been revealed.
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HM Revenue & Customs has announced that late payers of tax will not be fined, following delays caused by technical failures on the 31 January deadline.
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Peter Hain, has resigned from his role as Work and Pensions Secretary after the Electoral Commission reffered the issue of undeclared donations to his deputy leadership campaign to the police.
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A major restructure is under way at the Institute of Payroll Professionals (IPP) following two years of planning. A letter was sent to all members last month to explain the changes.
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Council bosses across England are struggling to meet a £2.8bn bill owed to a generation of women who have been underpaid by their local authorities.
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The Institute of Payroll Professionals has announced a survey on the advantages and disadvantages of putting employee benefits and expenses onto regular payroll processing.
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Companies who allow their staff to work remotely have reported savings of £2,000 per year per member of staff, according to research.
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Salaries in Edinburgh fell, over a period of just six months, despite increasing in the UK as a whole, new research has revealed.
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Confidential bank details of employees and local councillors have been lost at the payroll department at Spelthorne Council in Surrey.
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The Government has pledged almost £3bn in compensation for workers who lost their pensions when their companies collapsed. The government will restore 90% of the entitlement, which amounts to £2.9bn.
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The Government has confirmed its intention to scrap the P11D and P9D end-of-year forms. A consultation paper from HM Revenue & Customs is expected imminently.
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NHS contractor’s bonuses are forcing through the implementation of parts of the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) before it is ready, according to an NHS payroll manager.
EXCLUSIVE BY SARAH MACKINLAY
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Immigration may not be having a downward effect on the wages of those born in the UK, according to a report by the Centre for Economic Performance.
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Reports from our essential Autumn payroll and pensions conference, which was held on 8 November 2007 at the Mayfair Conference Centre
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A third of Britons believe it is ‘OK’ to exaggerate their work expenses, a survey conducted by YouGov has revealed.
Over 5 million people who claim or have claimed expenses admit to exaggerating them. And the figures show that the number of people who think it is acceptable to do so has increased by 36%.
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Schemes that exempt holiday pay from National Insurance Contributions are to be scrapped, the Chancellor announced in the Pre-Budget Report.
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A married mother of two is taking the owner of the Barbican arts centre, the City of London Corporation, to an Employment Tribunal after it refused to allow her flexible working arrangements.
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Firms will no longer be able to close down a workplace and lay off their staff without suffcient consultation or notice, following a landmark court decision.
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Key stories from the Payroll World Annual Update Conference, which took place on 19 April.
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Payroll World’s Human Capital Forum has secured another top speaker to present at its second event, to be held on Wednesday 24 October.
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Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor, has backed calls for more detail and explanation over the revelation that nearly three-quarters of a billion pounds is set to be spent on e-filing incentive payments.
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The Institute of Payroll Professionals (IPP) has named recruitment agency payrecruit as preferred supplier. The agency is headed by Melanie Pizzey, who used to run the IPP’s recruitment arm.
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A payroll recruitment agency has been asked to amend recruitment advertisements following a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority.
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MILLIONS OF WORKERS COULD BE AFFECTED SAY TUC
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has given its ruling on whether the practice of rolling up holiday pay is lawful.
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