Articles, tagged with "national insurance contributions", page 2
02nd March 2011
For many families, the decision to hire a nanny is brought on by the fact that parents do not have the time to care for the children. This being the case, it follows that the same parents would not have the time to do everything necessary to find a nanny,...
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Author:
nickcampbell
24th February 2011
Contractor umbrella company solutions provide contractors with an alternative way of trading to running their own contractor limited company. Many contractors also use them because they are caught by the IR35 tax. Umbrella companies typically provide cont...
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robinjackman
24th February 2011
Before making the leap into self-employment, you must make sure you aren’t caught out by red tape or miss out on grants and loans. We have a wealth of experience helping entrepreneurs starting a business. Here are a few pointers to get you started.
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Author:
Ward Goodman
23rd February 2011
Contract For Services
Contract for services are agreements essential for professional and small term business relationships. These agreements are between the parties to undertake some work (for example, consultancy, paint house, etc). Such contracts ...
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Author:
Herry Taylor
22nd February 2011
National Insurance contributions (the bit employers have to pay) is set to increase by 1% in April 2011. This isn’t even the bad news. So aside from now paying 20% VAT since last month, and looking forward to having to find an extra 1% on staff’s payroll ...
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Author:
Boogles
15th February 2011
It is important to know if you are a worker as you will need to make sure that you have your rights and protection under the employment law. There are three main types of employee status that come under employment law: worker, employee or self-employed. T...
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Author:
cgyles6819
14th February 2011
Contractors rely on their umbrella companies to ensure that all tax liabilities are calculated accurately and the correct amounts of income tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs) are paid to HMRC on time.
And because contractors take guidance ...
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Author:
robinjackman
11th February 2011
An umbrella company effectively acts as an employer to self employed contractors that work under a temporary contract. Many businesses that contract out work will only do so to limited companies so working under an umbrella company allows self employed co...
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Author:
paulsimmions
10th February 2011
Eurozone
The sun was shining in the Algarve this week as Europe avoided an escalation in its sovereign debt woes. Portugal managed to attract strong demand for its benchmark 10-year bonds, so much so that despite the country being seen as a candidate f...
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Author:
Rubel Zaman
03rd February 2011
The trouble with much payroll work is that it makes no difference what the size of your company, there are the same number of repetitive tasks to do. Each year end, the Employer Annual Return must be done, a P60 must be completed for each employee, all ex...
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Author:
James
03rd February 2011
Small and medium sized businesses have to cover all the same areas of HR and payroll as larger companies, but the unit cost is proportionately more for the smaller firms. The statutory requirements of the payroll schedule, and the specific deadlines that ...
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Author:
Lee Malcolm
29th December 2010
Running a payroll for larger organisations with full time accounting staff is easy. Full time professionals are employed or the payroll function may be outsourced to a payroll bureau. For the small business the payroll task often falls to the proprietor d...
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Author:
Bryon Burgess
13th December 2010
What is your current Employment status?
Which one of the two are you? Employed or Self-Employed?
Articles Series - Part One of Two
This article is the first part of two that looks at the employment status question.
Fairly insignificant on its ...
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Author:
Alpha UK Ltd
03rd December 2010
We can’t deny it – come this time of year, with Christmas in view, we all start thinking about money. Businesses, that is. Why? Because Christmas means bonuses, it means nearly two weeks without any work coming in, it means a mad rush before hand and a de...
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Author:
Alex Ribbs
10th November 2010
The Prime Minister recently made a plea for individuals to continue to set up their own businesses. It is common knowledge, however, that around half of businesses fail within a year and a very high percentage fail to last beyond the five year mark.
H...
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Author:
Lynn Watson