Payroll Consultancy Services

You know us as the UK's foremost payroll training company with consultants who have many years of practical expertise in the payroll environment.

These consultants can help you improve your business efficiency and ensure compliance in many ways:

1. In-house training geared specifically to the needs of your organisation

Many employers prefer us to arrange in-house training courses because:

• Courses can be tailored to the client’s own specific requirements rather than having to sit through a public course for which some of the content may not be relevant to their own needs. Sections from courses can be removed, material added and courses can be merged
• Commercially sensitive material can be discussed which would not be appropriate at a public course
• All delegates would receive the same message resulting in consistent working practices
• The course can be delivered at their own premises, thereby cutting down on their own travel and subsistence costs
• Depending on numbers of delegates, the cost per head is considerably lower than sending staff on public courses enabling more team members to be trained

To discuss your own organisation's on-site payroll training requirements please call 01798 861111 and ask us for a quotation.

2. Payroll Health Checks

In the last year, for which we have figures, HMRC generated over £800million from compliance visits alone.

Employers are required to retain all records and information relating to payroll, benefits, etc. for three years after the tax year end. However, HM Revenue & Customs has powers to investigate business accounts over a 6 year period.

Employers are now more likely than ever to be subject to a full review of their compliance systems and procedures, so don't leave anything to chance.

Make sure you are not vulnerable to the risk of PAYE/NIC liabilities, penalties, and problems - sort them out now.

Very little of an HM Revenue & Customs review will be spent looking at the payroll function. The majority of a Revenue Inspector's time will be spent concentrating on the purchase ledger, expenses and petty cash because that is where payments are made without always being correctly dealt with for tax and National Insurance purposes.

Our health checks mirror the ones carried out by HMRC and bring out issues which the employer can then put right reducing drastically the possibility of incurring penalties.

For further details and to speak to one of our payroll consultants please call 01798 861111.

3. Developing, reviewing and implementing policies and procedures for:

• expenses,
• statutory leave entitlements (maternity, paternity, sickness and adoption),
• salary sacrifice and
• flexible benefit schemes

Good procedures not only help employees understand what is required of them in a given situation, they also help employers prove to HMRC that they are being compliant.

A company’s procedures form the basis for everything that a company does. During an audit, they are one of the first things looked at and all activities are compared to what the procedures say.

Procedures must be:

• User-friendly, this is one of those tasks that is easy to say, but very difficult to perform.
• Printed in an easy-to-read font.
• Written clearly, they should be as brief as possible while maintaining clarity.
• Give direction and guidance to operator personnel.
• Written not only to provide that direction and guidance, but in such a manner that they cannot be misinterpreted. Keep in mind that procedures are often read by new personnel or others who are not familiar with operator operations.

We can provide that clarity and direction.

We have a team of experts who have introduced hundreds of different procedures during their careers in payroll and HR.

For further details and to speak to one of our payroll consultants please call 01798 861111.