Read our Guide to Successful PAYE Modernisation
Follow this link Guide to Successful PAYE Modernisation to find the ten key steps that need to be taken to ensure Successful PAYE Modernisation implementation.
Successful PAYE Modernisation requires each employer to take certain steps every time they
Pay Employees
Take on a New Hire
An employee leaves the organisation
Revenue need to be notified whenever any of the above events occur.
Employers also need to contact Revenue in advance of each Payroll Calculation to validate that the Employer is using the latest and correct details for Credits and Allowances for each Employee.
Employees should be asked to confirm that all […]
Validate Employee PPSNs with Revenue before PAYE Modernisation
Do you need to validate your employees’ PPSN details with Revenue.
Revenue is encouraging all employers to validate their employees’ PPSN details well ahead of 2019 and the implementation date for PAYE Modernisation. This is to ensure that 2019 RPN details (the replacement for P2C files) will be correct.
Revenue provide a means for employers to submit a file with all their employees details. And if you use either of Ardbrook’s payroll products – EuroPay or PayDay – then your payroll software is already able to produce the file required by Revenue.
It’s a simple process in both our Payroll products and […]
PAYE Modernisation – using a common Employer Registration Number
Do you have multiple payrolls, where one or more is especially confidential?
Then you’ll need to get separate Employer Registration numbers, one for each Payroll you run.
Under PAYE Modernisation, if you have multiple separate payrolls all linked to the one Employer Registration number, then whenever an RPN file (the new P2C replacement) is requested, you will get the details for all Employees associated with that Employer Registration number, even if they are calculated in different payrolls.
And if you calculate some employees through your in-house payroll while other employees are calculated through a third party bureau, if both payrolls have the […]
Worried about the impact of GDPR?
GDPR Regulations come into force from May 25th.
What can you do to help make your sensitive Payroll Data GDPR Compliant?
Encrypt your hard drive
Protect your data from external hackers with the use of a firewall
Use strong passwords to limit access to authorised personnel only and change them regularly
Review what information can be sent by email – ensure that it is encrypted and password protected.
Have strong procedures and policies to manage your payroll data
Consider anonymising key personal data fields – this is a feature if using EuroPay
Know what data you have, including in backup […]
Ever wish you could view your Payslip from your Smartphone?
The smarter way to get your Payslip.
We’re delighted to announce the launch of our great new myESS App.
Employees using myESS can access their actual Payslip over the internet – not just the latest payslip but also payslips from any prior period.
And now with the great new myESS App your Payslips can be delivered straight to your smartphone – accessible wherever and whenever you want.
No more stuffing your payslip into your drawer or the bottom of your bag never to be found when you need it. With the super new myESS App you have full access […]
Budget 2014 – Employers PRSI Increase
Just a reminder that when from 1 July 2011 the lower rate of employer PRSI was halved (to 4.25%) for all jobs that pay up to €356 per week, that the rate will be restored to 8.5% from 1 January 2014.
Budget 2014 – Main Points
The main points of Budget 2014 are as follows:
Pensions, carers’ allowance, disability benefit are untouched.
Basic rate of social welfare stays the same, as does child benefit.
Maternity benefits standardised at €230 per week
Free travel, respite care grant untouched.
Telephone allowance in the household benefit package to be discontinued from January 1st.
Fuel allowance has been left untouched.
€113m to be saved by […]
Budget 2014 – It’s steady as she goes
Budget 2014 may contain many changes but from the point of view of payroll and the calculation of PAYE Tax, USC and PRSI there are none. It appears that all rates remain the same as they were in 2013.
Budget 2014 – The wait is almost over
At 2:30pm today the Minister for Finance will rise in the Dail and begin the budget speech. While many tax measures appear to have been leaked in advance such as
Increase in DIRT tax to 41%
Capital Gains Tax and Capital Aquisitions Tax to be increased
Property tax to be doubled as outlined previously
Pension tax relief for higher earnings to capped at 65,000 euro
Taxes on the “old reliables” alcohol, cigarretes and petrol expected to go […]
Budget 2013 Troika calls for €1.25 in new taxes!
A report on the seventh review on the terms of Ireland’s EU-International Monetary Fund bailout, which was published this afternoon, states that revenue measures to raise at least €1.25 billion in the Budget will also include
a broadening of the personal income tax base
a restructuring of motor tax
a property tax based on house valuation will be introduced
a reduction in general tax expenditures
an increase in excise duty and other indirect taxes
On the spending side, social expenditure reductions and a cut in the total pay and pensions bill will be part of consolidation measures worth €2.25 billion.