Payroll is an area of business that is constantly changing and keeping up to date and compliant is a real challenge. This course will bring you up to speed on all the latest developments, including the most recent budget. 

It will cover the Employment Rights Bill and mandatory payrolling which is being introduced in 2027, explaining the impact these changes will have on businesses, payroll teams and employees. It will also discuss any changes to Statutory Payments, National Minimum Wage, Auto Enrolment and Pensions.

Our expert presenter will guide you through these complex subjects and ensure you are well prepared for the months ahead. Attending this important update will give you the confidence to know that your organisation is running a compliant payroll operation.

The statutory rules in this area are constantly changing and it can be hard to keep up to date. This practical course clearly explains the rules relating to benefits and expenses and how they should be applied in practice. It guides you through the calculations that sit behind each section of the P11D return or voluntary payrolling, if you have chosen to adopt this.

This course will cover both the current legislative framework and give you an insight into the future of benefits and expenses, helping you prepare for any changes ahead. The course also covers the challenges of flexible working in the 21st century such as homeworking, dual workplaces and supporting a remote workforce.

Attending this course will give you the confidence to know that you and your organisation are dealing with this challenging area correctly. Ultimately, it will help you avoid the costly penalties that HMRC can impose for incorrect or late P11D returns or incorrect processes that are discovered during a compliance review. HMRC have made it clear that the accurate processing of benefits and expenses is a key compliance focus.

In an aim to simplify tax, the payrolling of benefits will become compulsory from April 2027, with draft legislation expected later this year. HMRC have confirmed that the 2026-2027 tax year will be the last year that P11D’s and P11D(b)’s will be accepted in most cases.

This is a significant change to the benefits function and you will need to start preparing for the changes that mandatory payrolling will bring. There are critical procedural and operational questions that will need to be addressed in advance and it is important that you understand how payrolling benefits works before doing so. 

Based on current guidance, this half day course will clearly explain the payrolling benefits process, highlighting how it differs to the P11D process. You will get practical advice on the system changes that will be needed and how the new requirements should be explained and communicated to employees. The session will also guide you through the process of voluntarily payrolling in 2026-2027, which is something you may wish to do either in full or on a trial basis as part of your preparations. Our expert presenter will use examples to reinforce what we know so far and what you should be doing to prepare.

Understanding and correctly administering holiday leave and pay is an increasingly complicated part of the payroll/HR function. Recent and upcoming changes in legislation and case law make it more important than ever that you are fully up to date with the application of the law in this area. Getting things wrong with holidays can lead to difficult situations with employees and even result in costly Tribunal claims.

This online course will explain how statutory holiday leave and pay works and how it should be administered and recorded. It will also illustrate the ways in which holiday leave interacts with other entitlements, such as sickness or parental leave. It has been fully updated to cover the recent reforms - explaining what they are and what you must do to be compliant. Our expert presenter will be able to answer any outstanding questions affecting your organisation regarding these complicated issues. 

If you are new to UK payroll or have had UK payroll processing responsibilities for a while, this course is for you! During this 7.5-hour course, we explain the background of the UK’s statutory deductions and payments, and how they should be calculated.

Processing new starters and leavers, as well as payment after leaving, what should we do, and does our payroll software help us? Automatic Enrolment and pensions, a requirement most payroll departments take responsibility for, we explain how this works, the terminology used and how the tax relief can be given.

Like many countries the UK has a range of different types of statutory leave and payments that employees are entitled to receive and cover annual leave, time off and pay for parents, sickness and flexible working.

The entitlement, calculating the payments and the treatment of the payments is complex and requires HR and Payroll to work closely together.

Some of the legislation is UK based, others are from the EU but have been gold plated in the UK. In addition this case law whether in the UK courts or the European Courts of Justice have also had an impact for very specific circumstances.

All of which means that payroll teams have a lot of legislation to consider when processing these statutory payments and leave; and what’s more some payroll systems can manage all the appropriate record keeping and calculations whilst others only support part of the requirements and manual calculations and record keeping is required.

The UK is not alone in having a complex tax and social security system, although it does have the dubious distinction of having more tax legislation than any other country in the world at over 17,000 pages. Of course, for employers with employees based in the UK tax compliance is only a small part of their responsibilities which covers matters as diverse as employment law, gender pay gap reporting, student loan recovery and immigration issues. Whilst using compliant payroll software will assist with many compliance obligations, it is no substitute for the user having a sound knowledge of the underpinning legislation which changes on an almost weekly basis!

Providing a benefit to an employee, can be seen as a very generous offer, and quite often an employer will have the best intentions, whether that’s to boost morale, or just to do something nice. But sadly, sometimes these best intentions come at a price, and with the new Health and Social Care Levy, this is an extra 1.25% cost the employer does not need.

During this course, we will discuss what benefits can be provided to employees; tax and NI free, what to look out for when reviewing optional remuneration arrangement, and if a P11d is required, we explain how to complete it.

The PAYE settlement agreement (PSA) is an option for employers, to provide certain benefits to employees, without the employee incurring a tax charge, we explain how this works, and how it is calculated.

Some of you may already be payrolling your benefits, during the course we discuss what to consider if the business wants to move forward with this, or if this becomes a mandatory requirement.