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wildfoodie



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 13 1:19 pm    Post subject: PAYE Real Time Information - your thoughts/experience? Reply with quote
    

is anyone here using PAYE for employees?
you may know that the IR are moving to a real time system come april, which as far as I can see requires yet more administration and accountability from employers and less flexibility with how the employer manages payroll.
In addition to 2 salaried staff members ( paid monthly), we have a handful of students at various stages of education, who we employ in busy periods for anything from a couple of days to a few weeks at a time and a couple of saturday staff also in full time education. Come April their working hours and proposed pay will have to be submitted to IR BEFORE they can be paid -
seems to me that these weekly paid staff are going to cost me a lot of extra time and effort, and what about if I go on holiday - how can I manage payroll for staff whose hours and pay is not known until it happens? I think I'm going to have to pay our temp staff monthly in future as I'm the only one who does payroll....
has anyone got experience or reccomendations for payroll software?

sean
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 13 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I *thought* that you were exempt if you have fewer than 9 employees. I haven't checked closely though because I don't have any payroll responsibilities. It does seem totally daft though.

vegplot



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 13 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I don't think there are any exceptions not in the info I've read so far. We've been outsourcing payroll since May of last year. The small amount it costs us is well worth the stress/time it takes to do.

joanne



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 13 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I know we use Sage Payroll and it has RTI integration because I sit near our Accounts person and she is on the phone to Sage quite often and they are very very helpful - We also get out wageslips sent to our email rather than being printed out which saves the company money

wildfoodie



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 13 2:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

vegplot is right - there are no exceptions. if you pay employees, irrespective of whether they are below the NIC or tax thresholds, you will have to register them and use the RTI PAYE system from April 2013. Before that date everyone I've talked to about this is strongly suggesting that you ensure your employee info is bang up to date.

Sage are after me for buying their payroll software, at £210 plus vat and carriage it is a sizeable outlay for us but probably better than toughing it out with the IR freeware package 'Basic PAYE Tools' ...
This is soooooo slooooow I actively consider alcohol and drugs when using it...
I'm not even sure that it will be useable come April....

sean
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 13 2:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Sorry, my mistake. Still a daft idea though. Private Eye has been banging on about how unlikely it is that the systems will be ready in time and what the chances are of the data actually being kept secure.

wildfoodie



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 13 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I agree Sean, it's completely rubbish. the reason - 'so there will be fewer tax code errors' is imho a thinly veiled strategy for getting employers to do even more of the IR's work.

john of wessex



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 13 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I work in Housing benefit and we are preparing for the introduction of 'Universal Credit'

It is dependant on the RTI system working - even our payroll wasnt that impressed by it and your comments from the sharp end are fascinating...........

See, for example

https://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/01/universal-credit-computer-failures

Nicky cigreen



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 13 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

wildfoodie wrote:
vegplot is right - there are no exceptions. if you pay employees, irrespective of whether they are below the NIC or tax thresholds, you will have to register them and use the RTI PAYE system from April 2013. Before that date everyone I've talked to about this is strongly suggesting that you ensure your employee info is bang up to date.

Sage are after me for buying their payroll software, at £210 plus vat and carriage it is a sizeable outlay for us but probably better than toughing it out with the IR freeware package 'Basic PAYE Tools' ...
This is soooooo slooooow I actively consider alcohol and drugs when using it...
I'm not even sure that it will be useable come April....


sage payroll is pretty good, you will be tied into paying for upgrades every year too - but I think it would be worth it.

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