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The NIC regulations have been updated to provide clarity for employers whose employees work abroad. The amendment made confirms that several categories of expenses are not liable to Class 1A NIC, specifically:

1. travel between employments where duties performed abroad
2. travel costs and expenses where duties performed abroad: earner’s travel
3. travel costs and expenses where duties performed abroad: visiting spouse’s/civil partner’s or child’s travel
4. foreign accommodation and subsistence costs and expenses for overseas employments

The Government today announced plans to review SSP, to encourage supportive discussions and phased returns to work. The proposed plans included in this green paper include:

• Encouraging employers to work with their employees with long-term health conditions, to stop them from falling out of work,
• A review of Statutory Sick Pay and doctors fit notes, to support workers getting back to work faster, and for longer,
• Work Capability Assessment reform, via the launch of a consultation,
• A debate about recognising the value of work as a health outcome.

Statutory Sick Pay (SSP): Under review, to encourage returns to work. The Government today announced plans to review SSP, to encourage supportive discussions and phased returns to work. The proposed plans included in this green paper include: Encouraging employers to work with their employees with long-term health conditions, to stop them from falling out of work, A…

Pensions Automatic Enrolment: + 3 years = re-enrolment. Although some clients are still only just staging for pensions auto-enrolment, with many still to stage, auto-enrolment has been in place for larger employers since October 2012. This means that most employers are due, or have already had to go, through re-enrolment. Re-enrolment is something that all…

Payroll Update: Sep-16 The payroll bureau team at Whitings have produced their latest newsletter, to keep clients updated on relevant recent changes to payroll and related legislation:  September 2016 Update

The payroll bureau team at Whitings have produced their latest newsletter, to keep clients updated on relevant recent changes to payroll and related legislation:

Transferrable MCA: Gift your partner £220. The Government has in place a scheme (Transferable Married Couples Allowance) whereby certain couples can make an online claim to transfer unused tax allowance of up to £1,100 (10% of the annual Personal Allowance). This enables your husband, wife or civil partner to potentially pay up to £220 less…

National Minimum Wage: Increases from 1-Oct-16. The Low Pay Commission today welcomed the Government’s acceptance of its recommendations for the rates of the minimum wage affecting workers under 25 and apprentices, to apply from 1 October 2016 – including: its first recommendation for the effective new minimum wage for 21-24 year olds, where the Government agreed…

Taxation of Termination Payments: ‘All change’ HMRC has, for a while now, been trying to find a way around allowing the £30,000 tax free termination payment to employees. This may, in part, be from the knowledge that there have been occasions where some employers have excluded the inclusion of ‘payments in lieu of notice’ (PILON)…

Shared Parental Leave: Could you qualify? Shared parental leave was introduced to give working parents more choice and flexibility in how they care for their children during the first year after their birth or adoption. The new regime means to create a framework that better supports modern working families. Parents can share the 52 weeks’ leave…