The UK Country Leader for KeyPay, I work with an amazing team focussed on transforming the way that payroll and workforce management is administered in the UK, AU and NZ.
I am a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute, a member of BASDA and work in the industry for better communication between payroll and pension providers, worked in Pensions BIB on PAPDIS and alongside organisations such as The Bookkeepers Alliance to create a better way of working for payroll, practices and businesses.
This is absolutely not the forum for me to comment on the relative merits of the softwares mentioned (for obvious reasons - this is not the place for a sales pitch).
Just wanted to confirm that KeyPay will be building CIS this year.
I can't give you a release date but the current plan is 52-week averaging first and CIS after. CIS reporting is there, but I understand why certain bureaus want to do the whole CIS journey in payroll rather than in their accounting software.
Company directors with an annual pay period
Those paid annually are eligible to claim, as long as they meet the relevant conditions. This includes being notified to HMRC on an RTI submission on or before 19 March 2020, which relates to a payment of earnings in the 19/20 tax year. The requirement for there to be payment of earnings in the 19/20 tax year applies for any employee being claimed for under the scheme, irrespective of how frequently they are paid (e.g. weekly, fortnightly or monthly). This will be relevant for those on an annual pay period if the last payment notified to RTI was before 5 April 2019 and no further payments were notified until after 19 March 2020.
An employer can make their claim in anticipation of an imminent payroll run, at the point they run their payroll or after they have run their payroll.
Company directors with an annual pay period
Those paid annually are eligible to claim, as long as they meet the relevant conditions. This includes being notified to HMRC on an RTI submission on or before 19 March 2020, which relates to a payment of earnings in the 19/20 tax year. The requirement for there to be payment of earnings in the 19/20 tax year applies for any employee being claimed for under the scheme, irrespective of how frequently they are paid (e.g. weekly, fortnightly or monthly). This will be relevant for those on an annual pay period if the last payment notified to RTI was before 5 April 2019 and no further payments were notified until after 19 March 2020.
An employer can make their claim in anticipation of an imminent payroll run, at the point they run their payroll or after they have run their payroll.
Isn't the whole concept of a hosted desktop outmoded given that you have the same functionality just by using cloud solutions anyway?
Why pay extra for something that sits in the middle and slows everything down when you could use products that allow you to work anywhere in the world at any time?
I know a few companies that already do this for a number of accountants.
All of them offer a white label solution which could have your practice URL and logo on the log on page. They all mainly - if not exclusively - use cloud software and therefore they can give you access to the areas that you want to extract information for, while also providing employee and employer portal access for things like payslips, reports, timesheet uploads etc.
All of them are used to working with practices nationwide, so location shouldn't be an issue. The teams at all 3 are all conscientious, hardworking and friendly - so easy to deal with and they've all stacks of payroll knowledge and experience, so I'm always very comfortable in recommending them.
Judging from this HMRC guidance to employees - i.e. "Your employer can still make you redundant while you’re on furlough or afterwards." - it doesn't look like there is an exclusion from people in a notice period being on furlough (although of course the minimum period for furlough is 3 weeks and the normal statutory redundancy mechanisms/requirements all still apply).
There's nothing in the other furlough guidance (either on ACAS or HMRC) that I know of that mentions that specific scenario, so it's not clearly or obviously precluded.
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Hi Bristol-Cardiff
This is absolutely not the forum for me to comment on the relative merits of the softwares mentioned (for obvious reasons - this is not the place for a sales pitch).
Just wanted to confirm that KeyPay will be building CIS this year.
I can't give you a release date but the current plan is 52-week averaging first and CIS after. CIS reporting is there, but I understand why certain bureaus want to do the whole CIS journey in payroll rather than in their accounting software.
And I will bow out of this conversation now.
Evidence is via this link
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-which-employees-you-can-put-on-furloug...
The relevant section is
Company directors with an annual pay period
Those paid annually are eligible to claim, as long as they meet the relevant conditions. This includes being notified to HMRC on an RTI submission on or before 19 March 2020, which relates to a payment of earnings in the 19/20 tax year. The requirement for there to be payment of earnings in the 19/20 tax year applies for any employee being claimed for under the scheme, irrespective of how frequently they are paid (e.g. weekly, fortnightly or monthly). This will be relevant for those on an annual pay period if the last payment notified to RTI was before 5 April 2019 and no further payments were notified until after 19 March 2020.
An employer can make their claim in anticipation of an imminent payroll run, at the point they run their payroll or after they have run their payroll.
Evidence is via this link
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-which-employees-you-can-put-on-furloug...
The relevant section is
Company directors with an annual pay period
Those paid annually are eligible to claim, as long as they meet the relevant conditions. This includes being notified to HMRC on an RTI submission on or before 19 March 2020, which relates to a payment of earnings in the 19/20 tax year. The requirement for there to be payment of earnings in the 19/20 tax year applies for any employee being claimed for under the scheme, irrespective of how frequently they are paid (e.g. weekly, fortnightly or monthly). This will be relevant for those on an annual pay period if the last payment notified to RTI was before 5 April 2019 and no further payments were notified until after 19 March 2020.
An employer can make their claim in anticipation of an imminent payroll run, at the point they run their payroll or after they have run their payroll.
Isn't the whole concept of a hosted desktop outmoded given that you have the same functionality just by using cloud solutions anyway?
Why pay extra for something that sits in the middle and slows everything down when you could use products that allow you to work anywhere in the world at any time?
I know a few companies that already do this for a number of accountants.
All of them offer a white label solution which could have your practice URL and logo on the log on page. They all mainly - if not exclusively - use cloud software and therefore they can give you access to the areas that you want to extract information for, while also providing employee and employer portal access for things like payslips, reports, timesheet uploads etc.
I've gone for alphabetical order:
CJ Bookkeeping - https://cjbookkeeping.co.uk - Clare Haynes
Lite Consulting - http://www.litepayroll.co.uk - Simon Gibbs
Your Payroll Team - https://yourpayrollteam.com - Kevin Waller
All of them are used to working with practices nationwide, so location shouldn't be an issue. The teams at all 3 are all conscientious, hardworking and friendly - so easy to deal with and they've all stacks of payroll knowledge and experience, so I'm always very comfortable in recommending them.
Judging from this HMRC guidance to employees - i.e. "Your employer can still make you redundant while you’re on furlough or afterwards." - it doesn't look like there is an exclusion from people in a notice period being on furlough (although of course the minimum period for furlough is 3 weeks and the normal statutory redundancy mechanisms/requirements all still apply).
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-you-could-be-covered-by-the-coronav...
There's nothing in the other furlough guidance (either on ACAS or HMRC) that I know of that mentions that specific scenario, so it's not clearly or obviously precluded.
Others may know more...........