Category: Employer

Workers have won a ground breaking case at the Employment Appeal Tribunal to include overtime in holiday pay. This means all people working voluntary overtime could claim for additional holiday pay. Currently, only basic pay counts when calculating holiday pay. The details of the ruling, particularly on whether claims can be backdated, have yet to … Continued

We are pleased to have recently launched a cloud based accountancy service to enable our clients to have 24 hour, real time access to accounts from any location. The service, which uses Twinfield,Wolters Kluwer’s online accounting solution, will allow us to work more closely and regularly with our clients, ensuring data is accurate and up … Continued

Government ministers, regulators and figures from the pensions industry met last month to discuss how to tackle ‘pension liberation’ fraudsters. The Financial Conduct Authority and the Serious Fraud Office were also at the meeting on 12 September. Pension liberation scams convince people to hand over their pension pot in exchange for early access to the … Continued

Equitable life payments brought forward It was announced in this year’s Budget that people who bought a with-profits annuity from the Equitable Life Assurance Society before September 1992 – and were aged 60 or older on 20 March 2013 – would receive an ex-gratia payment of £5,000. Payments were planned for the 2014/15 tax year … Continued

We have launched our new website to make it more client-focused and interactive. Working with design and web experts at Liverpool  marketing agency Kenyon Fraser,  we are pleased  to have developed a site that captures many of the latest technologies that are changing the face of accountancy today, including a secure document exchange portal  and … Continued