What's New in BrightPay 2017/18

Presenters: Victoria Clarke & Rachel Hynes

What’s New in BrightPay 17/18

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Legislative Changes 2017/18

NIC & PAYE

• NIC – Lower Earnings Limit increased to £113.00 (per week)

• NIC – Primary & Secondary Thresholds increased to £157 (per week)

• Default tax code when setting up a new employee is 1150L

• If importing from BrightPay 16/17, the following codes will be uplifted automatically:

L codes by 50

M codes by 55

N codes by 45

Scottish Rate of Income Tax (SRIT)

• Simply enter the applicable Scottish

tax code within the Employee’s

record:

Statutory Payments & Student Loans

• Statutory Sick Pay – new rate of £89.35 (previously £88.45)

• SMP/ SPP/ SAP/ ShPP – new rate of £140.98 (previously £139.58)

• Student Loan Deductions:

– Plan 1 threshold increased to £17,775 per annum (£17,495 in 16/17)

– Plan 2 threshold remains at £21,000

– Percentage deduction remains at 9%

Coding Notices

• Ability to process 2017-18 Coding Notices

• This function has now been moved to the ‘Payroll’ utility:

Apprenticeship Levy

Apprenticeship Levy

• Payable by employers with an annual pay bill in excess of £3,000,000.

• Payable from 6th April 2017

• 0.5% of annual pay bill

• Apprenticeship levy allowance - £15,000 per annum

• Paid in the same manner as PAYE & NICs

• Reported via the Employer Payment Summary

Payroll Journals

Payroll Journals

• 5 accounting softwares currently catered for:

Exact

Kashflow

Quickbooks

Sage

Xero

• A ‘generic’ journal option is also available

Piece of Work Rates

Piece of Work Rates

• If you pay (or part pay) your employees by a unit other than salary,

the hour or the day, BrightPay now caters for this

• This new feature is available within the ‘Employer’ utility:

Minimum Wage Reporting

Minimum Wage Reporting

• New rates effective from 1st April 2017 are:

Minimum Wage Reporting

• National Minimum/Living Wage (including apprentices), UK Living Wage &

London Living Wage catered for in BrightPay

• Using the employee's age (on pay date), number of hours worked in period,

and minimum wage profile, BrightPay will determine the effective hourly rate

used and compare it against the required minimum hourly rate

• The user will be notified if an employee's wage appears to be below the

minimum

Finalising Payslips

Finalising Payslips

• Improvements have been made to how pay dates are entered when finalising payslips

• When re-opening and re-finalising payslips, the previously used pay date is

remembered

Annual Leave Adjustment

Annual Leave Adjustment

• BrightPay 2017/18 now allows you to adjust the 5.6 weeks statutory holiday

week’s entitlement figure for the annual leave calculation types

Expenses & Benefits

Expenses & Benefits

• Company car information can now be reported on the Full

Payment Submission, if the car is being payrolled

• Remember to register with HMRC before 6th April in order to

payroll benefits:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/paying-your-employees-expenses-

and-benefits-through-your-payroll

Bureau Enhancements

Bureau Enhancements

• Improvements to BrightPay starting window

• Client details

• Batch processing of RTI submissions for multiple employers

• Organised folder structure for exported documents

• Ability to import multiple employers using CSV file

Automatic Enrolment

Automatic enrolment

• The new earnings thresholds and triggers updated

• Standard Qualifying Earnings: annual lower limit = £5,876

• Standard Qualifying Earnings: annual upper limit = £45,000

Automatic enrolment

Coming soon:

• Automatic re-enrolment

• Ability to switch employees between pension schemes

• The People’s Pension API

• Aviva API

BrightPay Connect

Online Backup & Employee Self Service

Optional BrightPay Add-On

Secure & Automatic Backup

Employee Self Service

Bureau Client Dashboard

Multiple Users

Annual Leave Management

Document Upload

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Questions & Answers

For more information visit www.brightpay.co.uk, email

support@brightpay.co.uk or phone 0845 3004 304