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You’ve set up a UK limited company. Your director lives in Spain, your sales team’s in the US and nobody actually works in the UK. So do you need a PAYE scheme? It’s a question that catches out a lot...

Showing you appreciate your employees at Christmas time is a lovely gesture. Landing them, or the business with an unexpected tax bill, is not so festive! The rules about what is and isn’t tax free, are a headache. And, for...

For most of the last decade, the company car looked like a relic. Tax bills climbed, perks shrank, and plenty of employees and directors took the cash allowance instead. The sums have moved since then. EVs sit in the lowest...

For income tax, HMRC treats a geographical area as one big permanent workplace when an employee’s duties are formally tied to that area, they’ve no single base, and they work there regularly. Get that call right, and your mobile staff’s...

Here’s an uncomfortable truth. Millions of people hand HMRC more than they need to every year, usually because nobody told them what they’re entitled to. We’re payroll people, so spotting money that should be in your pocket is what we...

October 2026 brings the second big wave of the Employment Rights Act 2025, in 2 parts – 1 October and 30 October. If April’s changes felt like a warm-up lap, this is where the race starts. The Act received Royal...

The Fair Work Agency has published its first delivery plan, covering 2026 to 2027. For payroll teams, this is more than another piece of employment law reading. It’s the clearest signal yet of how enforcement of pay, tips and holiday...

Payrolled Benefits Payrolling benefits in kind is supposed to make life easier. Tax gets collected through the payroll as you go, rather than clawed back later through a tax code change. That only works, though, if you actually know what...

The 2026 umbrella crackdown If your business relies on agency workers or contractors, you might assume that how they get paid is entirely the responsibility of the recruitment agency or their chosen umbrella company. For years, many businesses have taken...

Employment Rights Act and Continuity of service Continuity of service is one of those concepts that sits quietly in the background of employment law until the moment it matters enormously. It can be the difference between an employee having real...