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Termination payments and Class 1A National Insurance

termination payments

As the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme comes to an end, employers with employees who are still on furlough will need to decide whether they are able to bring the employee back to work, either full time or part time, or whether they will have to terminate the employee’s employment. When terminating an employee’s employment, the … Read more

Amend your PSA (PAYE Settlement Agreement) for Covid-19 related benefits

Amending your PSA

Amend your PSA for Covid-19 related benefits A PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA) enables an employer to meet the tax on certain benefits and expenses on the employee’s behalf. This can be useful to preserve the goodwill nature of a benefit. Not all benefits are suitable for inclusion within a PSA. To qualify a benefit must … Read more

No retained profits – Can you extract cash to cover your living expenses?

No retained profits?

If you operate through a limited company, for example as a personal or family company, you will need to extract funds from your company in order to use them to meet your personal bills. There are various ways of doing this. However, a popular and tax efficient strategy is to take a small salary which … Read more

Reclaiming SSP for periods of self-isolation

SSP and self isolation

The Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme allows smaller employers to reclaim some or all of the Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) paid to employees who are absent from work due to a Coronavirus-related absence. Eligible employers An employer is eligible to use the scheme if the employer had fewer than 250 employees across all their … Read more

Grants for businesses affected by national restrictions

closed due to national restrictions

Many businesses have been forced to close as a result of the national and local restrictions introduced to slow the spread of Coronavirus. Where this is the case, the business may be eligible for a grant from their local authority. The following grant support is available to businesses in England during the second national lockdown. … Read more

Further changes in Covid19 support of businesses

further changes to support for businesses

The Government has extended Furlough to March and increases the self-employed support scheme. As the lockdown has now started for England and continues elsewhere, the Government has changed its mind again about business supports and decided to extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) across all regions of … Read more