The online Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme will be launched on 26 May. Through this, small and medium-sized employers can recover Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) payments they have made to their employees due to COVID-19-related absence. The key points of the...
Tax Director Angela Keery looks at the newly published protocol. Whilst most of us have had our attention focused on Covid19, time has been ticking down on the Brexit transition period to 31 December 2020. This week has seen a few key developments, including the...
The UK government has published an update on workers’ entitlement to holiday and holiday pay during the coronavirus pandemic with some further clarity on whether an employer can require a worker to take holiday whilst on furlough. Whilst the guidance is not legally...
Further details on the fund to support micro-businesses and social enterprises unable to access other regional and national COVID-19 support measures have been announced. £40 million is available through the fund, which is administered by Invest NI on behalf of the...
Whilst Government advice is still to work from home where you can, we are all having to adjust to new surroundings. In an attempt to make working from home as easy as possible, a new temporary tax and National Insurance exemption has been announced, to allow employers...
This week we caught up with Tax Manager Chris Bradley to find out how he has found the past few weeks of lockdown life. “The last few weeks have definitely been a learning curve, but a good one. We have a baby at home, he isn’t even a year old yet, and he’s been very...
