Did you know that 20% of UK parents spend no time at all reading with their children? Or that just 50% of parents with young children read for just 1 hour each week?
Not only does reading to your children help to improve their academic performance, but more importantly it strengthens your bond, improves their imagination, helps children learn to read, teaches them about the world around them, and provides important morals to help make your child a nicer person.
In order to avoid penalties and interest, it is important to make sure you pay HMRC on time for tax, employee and employer national insurance and student loan deductions.
Here is a note of each quarter’s payment and payment deadlines:
Quarter Period for Payment Date
Quarter 1 6th April to 5th July 22nd July
Quarter 2 6th July to 5th October 22nd October
Quarter 3 6th October to 5th January 22nd January
Quarter 4 6th January to 5th April 22nd April
If your PAYE exceeds over £1,500 a month, you will have to pay HMRC monthly instead of quarterly.
The best way to pay them is directly via their website, you will get a confirmation email from them stating all the transaction details in case there was ever a dispute of payments- https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/pay-online/epaye
I have my own company; can I pay nanny through my payroll?
No. Nannies are considered a personal employee and should not be under a company’s PAYE. Nannies should not be paid through your company, but through your own personal bank account.
Therefor you need to register yourself as an employer of a nanny and register nanny through this new company and process and submit payroll through this new company.
You can either do this yourself through HMRC or contact us at payrollfornannies.co.uk and we will then hopefully take the responsibility of doing this on your behalf
HMRC allow most employers to get £3,000 off their National Insurance liability.
Unfortunately, if you employ someone for personal, household or domestic work you are unable to claim this as the employees are being employed in a personal capacity to support the running of a household.
It is important to know the rules otherwise you could end up paying back this money to HMRC.
You can claim on the following:
old age
mental or physical disability
past or present dependence on alcohol or drugs
past or present illness
past or present mental disorder
You cannot claim the Employment Allowance if you are employing a nanny unless the nanny is employed for an individual who needs care because of one of the reasons set out above.
To claim for the Employment Allowance, it will need to be submitted via payroll software by means of sending an EPS (Employment Payment Summary).
From April the NMW (National Minimum Wage) rates are changing for the 20/21 tax year.
As an employer you must comply with the national minimum wage, if you do not you could end up in an Employment Tribunal or be reported to HMRC and face a fine of up to £20,000.
The new hourly rates for the tax year 2020/21 are:
If nanny lives in the family home and not separate accommodation provided by the employer, then the national minimum wage does not apply.
For live in nannies, there is a daily accommodation offset rate of £8.20 per day, £57.40 a week. These rates are set every April, so it is important to keep up to date with the new legislation. These rates are from April 2020.
For accommodation provided to nanny other than the family home, this will need to be declared as a Benefit In Kind.
‘Zero hours contract’ is a non-legal term used to describe many different types of casual agreements between an employer and an individual.
Generally speaking, a zero hours contract is one in which the employer does not guarantee the individual any hours of work. The employer offers the individual work when it arises, and the individual can either accept the work offered, or decide not to take up the offer of work on that occasion.
Regardless of how many hours are offered, the employer must pay at least the National Minimum Wage.
Everyone employed on a zero hours contract is entitled to statutory employment rights. There are no exceptions.
A person will benefit from the employment rights associated with their employment status and individuals on a zero hours contract will either have the employment status of a ’worker’ or an ‘employee’.
Any individual on a zero hours contract who is a ‘worker’ will be entitled to at least the National Minimum Wage, paid annual leave, rest breaks and protection from discrimination.
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and it’s the perfect time for young children to unleash their creativity.
Choose from our top 5 valentine’s activities for young children and have a great day with arts and crafts making gifts for friends, family and nanny!
Continue reading “Valentine’s Day Activity Ideas for Young Children”
Eligible employees can take unpaid parental leave to look after their child’s welfare, for example,
spend more time with their children
look at new schools
settle children into new childcare arrangements
spend more time with family, such as visiting grandparents
Their employment rights are protected during parental leave.
Parental leave is unpaid. Employees are entitled to 18 weeks leave for each child and adopted child, up to their 18th birthday.
The limit on how much parental leave each parent can take in a year is 4 weeks for each child (unless the employer agrees otherwise).
You must take parental leave as whole weeks (eg 1 week or 2 weeks) rather than individual days, unless your employer agrees otherwise or if your child is disabled. You don’t have to take all the leave at once.
Employees qualify if all of these apply:
they’ve been in the company for more than a year
they’re named on the child’s birth or adoption certificate or they have or expect to have parental responsibility
Employees must give 21 days’ notice before their intended start date. If they or their partner are having a baby or adopting, it’s 21 days before the week the baby or child is expected.
Employees must confirm the start and end dates in their notice. Unless an employer requests it, this doesn’t have to be in writing.
It is against the law to treat someone less favourably than someone else because of a personal characteristic such as religion, sex, gender reassignment or age.
Discrimination can include:
You can discriminate against someone even if you do not intend to. For example, you can discriminate indirectly by offering working conditions or rules that disadvantage one group of people more than another.
Discrimination in Job adverts
You must not state or imply in a job advert that you’ll discriminate against anyone. This includes saying that you are not able to cater for workers with a disability.
Only use phrases like ‘recent graduate’ or ‘highly experienced’ when these are actual requirements of the job. Otherwise you could discriminate against younger or older people who might not have had the opportunity to get qualifications.
Where you advertise might cause indirect discrimination – for example, advertising only in men’s magazines.
The day of love is right around the corner and Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to bring out those craft supplies and start making gifts for all.
Try these fun Valentine’s Day inspired crafts for kids of all ages:
