CIPP Payroll: need to know 2020-21

The CIPP’s response to the HMRC consultation: ‘Supporting veterans’ transition to civilian life through employment’ .....................................................................................................................................................444 Chancellor confirms increases to Income Tax Personal Allowance and Higher Rate thresholds, and NI limits and thresholds for 2021-22......................................................................................................................................445 HMRC publishes response to consultation: Supporting veterans’ transition into civilian life through employment .........................................................................................................................................................................445 Temporary suspension of the issuing of National Insurance Numbers to continue ..........................................446 National Insurance contributions relief for employers of veterans – policy paper .............................................446 Class 1A National Insurance contributions on benefits in kind, termination payments and sporting testimonial payments (CWG5) ............................................................................................................................................449 Deferment of payment of Class 1 NICs (CA72A)..............................................................................................449 National Minimum Wage / National Living Wage ......................................... 449 Amendments to National Minimum Wage regulations ......................................................................................449 CIPP Survey: 2020 LPC annual review of minimum wage rates ......................................................................450 Calculating minimum wage guidance updated to reflect changes to calculating salaried-hours work ..............451 CIPP Survey: 2020 LPC annual review of minimum wage rates ......................................................................451 CIPP Survey: 2020 LPC annual review of minimum wage rates ......................................................................452 CIPP Webcast: National Minimum Wage refresh and update ..........................................................................452 CIPP response to LPC consultation on National Minimum Wage rates for April 2021 .....................................452 The Low Pay Commission publishes blog on non-compliance in Leicester......................................................453 Homecare workers paid £10,000 in backpay from care agencies breaching wage rules .................................454 National Minimum Wage guidance updated for seafarers ................................................................................455 HMRC webinars: National Minimum Wage.......................................................................................................456 National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates to increase from April 2021 ....................................456 HMRC webinar: National Minimum Wage ........................................................................................................458 The Low Pay Commission publishes full report on National Minimum Wage rates from April 2021 .................458 New Low Pay Commission blog: What does the NLW have to do with the price of fish? .................................459 Tweaks to the National Minimum Wage Manual...............................................................................................459 National Minimum Wage guide given an overhaul............................................................................................460 The Supreme Court rules that sleep-in care workers are not entitled to the minimum wage ............................460 LPC consultation: Recommendations on the NLW and NMW rates for April 2022...........................................461 Update to National Minimum Wage Regulations – record-keeping requirements.............................................462 Off-payroll Working......................................................................................... 462 Public sector contractors will be eligible for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme .......................................462 The House of Lords has listed its concerns regarding IR35 reforms in a letter to the Treasury .......................463 The House of Lords economic affairs finance bill sub-committee’s report urges the government to rethink IR35 reforms .............................................................................................................................................................464 Off-Payroll Working changes look imminent to go ahead as planned...............................................................464 IR35 reforms will go ahead as planned in April 2021........................................................................................465 The government response to the report from the Economic Affairs Finance Bill Sub-Committee on off-payroll working .............................................................................................................................................................466 New Quick Poll: Readiness for off-payroll working reforms ..............................................................................466 Off-payroll working guidance updated, ahead of the implementation of the new rules from 6 April 2021 .........467 HMRC webinars – Off-Payroll working and Avoiding Saver Scams .................................................................468 Off-payroll: Guidance on checking labour supply chains ..................................................................................468 Off-Payroll working rules – HMRC update on interpretation of Section 61O ....................................................469 Off-payroll working rules – when to use the RTI indicator flag..........................................................................470 Education and support: off-payroll working changes ........................................................................................471 Employment Status Manual - Guide to determining status: fact finding/evidence gathering updated...............471 HMRC warns of potential dangers to businesses of Mini Umbrella Company fraud .........................................472 Education tools: Off-payroll working .................................................................................................................473 Technical change to off-payroll working legislation...........................................................................................474 HMRC webinars: off-payroll working ................................................................................................................475 Off-Payroll working – HMRC guidance .............................................................................................................475 How HMRC will support compliance with off-payroll working reforms ..............................................................475 Off-Payroll working factsheet available.............................................................................................................476 Off-payroll working reforms: impacts on education sites and employment agencies........................................477 PAYE (Pay As You Earn) ................................................................................ 477 Attachment of Earnings Orders (AEOs, DEAs).................................................................................................477 Collection of DEAs issued by DWP suspended................................................................................................477 DWP confirms the recovery of benefit overpayments has been suspended temporarily ..................................478 Update on the treatment of DEAs during the outbreak of coronavirus..............................................................479

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