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What the pension change means for salary sacrifice

What the April 2029 pension changes actually mean for salary sacrifice

There is a change coming to pension salary sacrifice that does not get nearly enough attention, and April 2029 has a habit of feeling a long way off right up until it is not. From 6 April 2029, National Insurance...

New tax exempt benefits

New tax exemptions for workplace benefits

As an employer, you want to look after your team’s health and wellbeing. Offering to cover the cost of routine healthcare like eye tests and seasonal flu vaccinations is a brilliant way to show you care. But historically, the tax...

Payroll Simplified - payrolling of benefits

Payroll Simplified – the mechanics of payrolling benefits in kind

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...

5 common salary sacrifice mistakes

How to avoid the most common salary sacrifice mistakes

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...

The new data protection complaints law is live. Here’s what it means for you, and why our clients can relax.

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...

Payrolling of benefits in kind

Payrolling of benefits – five things you need to do before April 2027

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...

Fair Work Agency

The Fair Work Agency is here – what it means for your payroll

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’...

Salary sacrifice

Why salary sacrifice is not as simple as you think

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...

Payrolling of benefits in kind

How payrolling benefits in kind works – and the cash flow problem hiding in the detail

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...

EV charging and tax

Charging points for electric cars – what every employer needs to know about the tax

If you have been thinking about installing EV charging points at your workplace, you are in good company. As more of your team make the switch to electric, the question of whether to put chargers in at the office, the...