Form P11Ds to include benefits provided by salary sacrifice

Employers need to report all Benefits in Kind (BiKs), including those under the Optional Remuneration Arrangements (OpRAs) or “salary sacrifice” arrangements, to HMRC on form P11D from 6 April 2018, unless they are registered to voluntarily payroll benefits. OpRAs are...

Payroll and auto enrolment

As we mentioned back in October, many small and micro businesses are nearing their staging date – the date by which your workplace pension scheme must be up and running. And this means there’s a real imperative for getting your payroll software and systems up to speed to cope with making pension contributions.

How to find your staging date (and why it matters)

Between 2015 and 2017, over a million small and micro business will be reaching their pensions auto enrolment staging date – in fact it’s a staggering 51,134 companies per month.

We’ve already mentioned the need to Payroll auto enrolment upgrade your payroll system if you’re going to meet your business’s staging date. But, even at this late stage, there are still many business owners and micro businesses that don’t seem aware of the need to comply with their auto enrolment requirements.