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Alison Clynes
Why outsourcing makes financial sense When you receive a quote for managed payroll, it is easy to view it as a brand-new business expense. This usually happens because you are comparing it against a falsely low internal cost base. Many...
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Paul Chappell
From 6 April 2027, payrolling benefits in kind will stop being a choice and become the default for most employers. If you’ve relied on the P11D process for years, the bigger question isn’t why this is happening. It’s how the...
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Paul Chappell
Salary sacrifice schemes look simple on paper. Reduce the salary, provide the benefit, process the payroll on the lower figure. What is there to get wrong? Quite a lot, as it turns out. After years of working with businesses across...
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Josh Donner
We’re delighted to welcome Grant Water to the team as Payroll Professional.. Grant brings a broad base of payroll and tronc experience to Ascend, having worked across corporate payroll and specialist tipping schemes for clients spanning healthcare, hospitality and beyond....
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Stewart Waddell
We’re delighted to welcome George Serls to the team as our Public Sector Pension Specialist. George brings a career’s worth of payroll and pensions expertise to Ascend, with particular depth in the education sector, where pension schemes like Teachers’ Pensions...
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LIam Ridgill
On 23 June 2026, a new legal duty landed on every organisation in the UK that handles personal data. If you employ people, that means you. The rule itself is short. You have to give people a clear way to...
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Paul Chappell
Mandatory payrolling of benefits in Kind (BiKs)comes into effect on 6 April 2027. But on 15 June 2026, HMRC confirmed that the shape of that deadline will change considerably -: rather than mandating payrolling for all benefits at once, the...
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Paul Chappell
If you have been keeping one eye on employment law over the last year or so, you will have seen the Fair Work Agency coming. It launched on 7 April 2026, and for the first time, the enforcement of workers’...
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Paul Chappell
Most employers know the basic idea of salary sacrifice. The employee gives up some salary and gets a benefit instead – everyone saves on tax and National Insurance. Unfortunately, like many things in payroll, salary sacrifice isn’t as simplistic as...
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Paul Chappell
UPDATED 15th JUNE 2026 following HMRC announcement of phased implementation Mandatory payrolling of Benefits in Kind (BiKs) is now to be phased in, with the most common benefits of company cars, vans, fuel and private medical and dental benefits coming...
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