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What is salary sacrifice and why’s it under threat?
If you read Jo Cumbo’s piece on possible changes to pensions tax relief in the FT yesterday, you’ll have seen references to the abolition of pension salary sacrifice. Pension Salary Sacrifice is quite legal and both the DWP and HMRC … Continue reading
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Tagged 170 check-out, bull, Chancellor, DWP, HMRC, National Insurance, pension salary sacrifice, pensions, red rag, salary exchange, salary sacrifice, Tax, three card trick, Treasury
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Auto-enrolment limits – what the DWP aren’t saying!
The DWP’s paper on the Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Bands(QEB) for auto-enrolment next year is very well written and gives an insight into just how much thought is going into managing the conflicting needs of employers, workers, administrators and…HMRC. … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, DWP, HMRC, net-pay, pensions, PLSA, relief at source, salary sacrifice, Tax, tax relief, Treasury
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Is pension salary sacrifice an answer?
After the ruck created by articles in the FT and the Daily Express, I’ve heard several pension experts tell me that if we did not have employer contributions, all the issues around net-pay and relief at source would go away. … Continue reading
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Tagged Consultants, HMRC, net-pay, pensions, relief at source, salary sacrifice, Tax
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Pension salary sacrifice – how to make friends (and keep the bosses happy)!
Whether you’re an agent or working in-house processing pension payments are or will be part of your payroll duties. But are you doing all you can to make those pension payments as efficient to your employer as they can be? … Continue reading
5 reasons why payroll must get smarter at pensions.
Recently I was talking with someone who used to be pension manager to one of our large retailers. She wrote to me over the weekend. She’d realised that the people doing payroll for the 1.2m employers still to stage auto-enrolment aren’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Agents, Bond, Bureaux, Choose a Pension, IRIS, Payroll, payroll software, pension, pensions, Sage, salary sacrifice
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