Ideally the employer should benefit from this service by a reduction to the number of queries they receive from employees as their tax codes become more accurate and up to date. However where an employer currently payroll benefits in kind there will be no need for the employee to HMRC about the provision of the benefit in kind.
As the service is due to go live in September, we look forward to the service making clear this latter point,
Agents will be unable to use the service on behalf of their clients until later in the year.
Digital by default services aim to be so straight forward and convenient to use that they encourage all who can use them to do so, but telephone helpline services remain available for those in need of them.
Other subjects covered in the Employer Bulletin 49 include:
Employment Allowance In-year penalties for late filing start from October 2014 Update to Basic PAYE Tools for the 2014 to 2015 tax year Using HMRC payslips Update on the Employment Related Securities (ERS) online service Online seminars for small and medium businesses Updated Employment Tribunal Appeals guidance and forms for National Minimum Wage (NMW) Appeals Continued roll out of Universal Credit Shared Parental Leave Annual Tax Summaries for PAYE taxpayers Scheme Contracted-out Numbers
Yemen reforms corruption-ridden public payroll
21 August
Whatever the concerns about payroll compliance in both private and public sectors in this country, it is perhaps reassuring to note that things can be much worse in some parts of the world. A new initiative to remove thousands of ‘ghost workers’ from the bureaucracy of the Yemen could apparently save $200m.
We are grateful to Gulf News for this report:
Yemen’s government has begun applying a biometric registration system for all military personnel in order to clear the public payroll from double-dippers and so-called ‘ghost workers’. Experts say the step has been taken due to pressure from international donors and the public. The cash-strapped government believes that purging ghost employees from the payroll will save millions of dollars every year. Double-dippers are those who are registered twice on the payroll and receive two salaries from two different public sector jobs. Ghost workers are fake names that are put on the payroll or those workers who receive one salary but do not serve in their positions. Some ghost workers do not even live in Yemen. Teams have been sent to military camps across the country to take photos and fingerprints of the soldiers. Yemeni president Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi said on August 3 that the teams should finish registering all soldiers before the end of October. Starting from October, military personnel will receive their salaries in person or through their accounts in the post offices across the country. The government warned soldiers who do not show up during the registration that they will be delisted from the payrolls, their salaries will stop being disbursed, and that they could face legal measures.
CIPP Policy News Journal
08/04/2015, Page 272 of 521
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