where to start. In light of this, a new website has been developed to make employee mental health resources easier to find.
On 11 September, the Duke of Cambridge officially launched the Mental Health at Work gateway that Mind have developed together with his campaign, Heads Together. Employers now have a simple way to access to a range of resources, including guides, tips, videos, courses, podcasts and training all aimed at addressing employee wellbeing. The gateway can be accessed here, and in just a few clicks you will be able to access resources that will help you on your journey to improving your workplace, for the benefit of everybody.
This information was published in the October edition of the Employer Bulletin.
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Salary Sacrifice guidance for employers updated 17 October 2018
If you are an employer find out how to set up a salary sacrifice arrangement and calculate tax and National Insurance contributions on them.
A salary sacrifice arrangement is an agreement to reduce an employee’s entitlement to cash pay, usually in return for a non-cash benefit. As an employer, you can set up a salary sacrifice arrangement by changing the terms of your employee’s employment contract. Your employee needs to agree to this change.
A salary sacrifice arrangement cannot reduce an employee’s cash earnings below the National Minimum Wage rates.
Gov.UK has recently updated its guidance and the update on this occasion relates to the contact details for the information on Tax free childcare and HMRC clearance team.
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Pension scheme administrators encouraged to resume reporting of non- taxable lump sum payments 19 October 2018
HMRC Pensions team are encouraging Scheme Administrators to begin to report the payment of non-taxable lump sum payments following corrections being made to the RTI system.
The updates that have been made to the Real Time Information (RTI) online service will prevent P6 coding notices being incorrectly issued to beneficiaries in receipt of pension lump sum death benefits that are entirely non-taxable.
HMRC have apologised for the length of time taken to resolve this issue.
Scheme administrators can now resume reporting non-taxable pension lump sum death benefit payments through RTI. For 2018 to 2019 scheme administrators can find guidance on how to report these payments in part 2.2.7 of the 2018 to 2019: Employer further guide to PAYE and National Insurance contributions - GOV.UK.
HMRC accept that it may take time for scheme administrators to amend their processes to report these payments again, but they want to encourage pension scheme administrators to start reporting these as soon as they’re able to.
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