If you work from home on the instruction of your employer, incurred additional expenses as a result thereof, you may be eligible to claim tax relief from HMRC. In 2020/2021 the HMRC received in excess of 3 million claims for tax relief. According to GOV.UK more than 500k people have claimed and are benefitting from ‘working from home tax relief’ this year already. If an employed worker has been instructed to work from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic and has incurred expenses as a … [Read more...]
Recognise the Signs of Payroll Fraud
Identifying suspicious activity can help your business save thousands of pounds every year from payroll fraud. Private sector businesses are losing in excess of £12bn each year to payroll fraud. Payroll fraud is simply described as employees who try to defraud the payroll system at their place of employment in order to gain more money they are not entitled to. For larger corporations, undetected payroll fraud may not pose a huge threat but for smaller businesses can have a … [Read more...]
NEST gets better for members
Even though it has been signposted for years, NEST members should have had a small moment over the weekend when they felt a small seismic shudder, because some new opportunities opened up for them on 1 April.1. They can now transfer benefits into NEST;2. They can transfer their funds out of NEST, and3. There is no cap on the amount of contributions that they can pay in.The first is actually more exciting than billed, because there is no contribution charge on … [Read more...]