[Smudger]

Hi Ian,

Hope all is well, I think I spoke to you a few week ago, thanks for your time Well we haev a couple of interviews set up for next week, just wondering how yoyur new guy worked out for you, I know you said he was cleaning houses by teh afternoon on his own, is he still with you, how long before he "got up to a good speed" Also did you set up your payroll on the hmrc website - any tips goign forward. Thanks Carrie

[bobplum]

sorry to jump in
i have had a advert for 6 weeks in the job centre and nothing so how did you come about your staff

[richywilts]

bob ive had loads of people ringing me asking me if thats one of my job adverts in the jobby, said no i respect staff and pay decent wages 

[Smudger]

Hi Bob,

we did a job centre ad and a gumtree one, nothing from gum tree but about 10 so far from job centre - been running since monday afternoon I think - what did you pop in your ad?

[Ian101]

Hi Ian,

Hope all is well, I think I spoke to you a few week ago, thanks for your time Well we haev a couple of interviews set up for next week, just wondering how yoyur new guy worked out for you, I know you said he was cleaning houses by teh afternoon on his own, is he still with you, how long before he "got up to a good speed" Also did you set up your payroll on the hmrc website - any tips goign forward. Thanks Carrie

Hi Carrie,

Yup Joe still with me and was up to speed within a week or 2, ... at first our water consumption shot up as he was over rinsing but rather have that then call backs now though water use is back to normal ... will be out on his own within the next month ... set up payroll on Sage One http://uk.sageone.com/ for a fiver a month you cant beat it and as Ive set up an account with the government gateway http://www.gateway.gov.uk/Default.aspx it all happens automatically ... Government gateway great for all HMRC stuff, paye, self assesment etc etc

Only tip I can give is to follow proper process with interview and only employ someone u feel you can work with ... dont be tempted to take a chance employing wrong person ... better to delay process and advertise again IMHO

Good Luck !!!

[Ian101]

sorry to jump in
i have had a advert for 6 weeks in the job centre and nothing so how did you come about your staff

Did they not teach you any of this on Impact 69 training course ?? 

[Smudger]

Thanks Ian, do you need to have both sage and hmrc that you have? Sorry if I am being a wally - wading through the hmrc site, why did you do sage rather than the hmrc payroll? Do you pay monthly 4 weekly or differnt - and do you send the tax/ni at the same time?

Can prob find this all out but if you didn't mind sharing your experience I'd be grateful. Good advice, if we don't get the right person we will not rush but re-advertise. Thanks Carrie

[Smudger]

Hi Ian

ust checked out the sage link, looks very good I thnk I may use that Can you just confirm the gateway thing, is that just to enable you to inform the HMRC that you are an employer now??

So when you run the sage system, you enter Joes wages, it auctomatically does the dedutions you give joe a payslip and pay him, it shows you what you need to pay the HMRC - so do you then just do an online payment to HMRC with the right ref numbers or do you need to do it via the gateway thing?

thanks

[Ian101]

Hi Ian

ust checked out the sage link, looks very good I thnk I may use that Can you just confirm the gateway thing, is that just to enable you to inform the HMRC that you are an employer now??

So when you run the sage system, you enter Joes wages, it auctomatically does the dedutions you give joe a payslip and pay him, it shows you what you need to pay the HMRC - so do you then just do an online payment to HMRC with the right ref numbers or do you need to do it via the gateway thing?

thanks

Yes to question 1 but lots more besides informing about employing ... tax .. self assessment etc

Question 2 ... yup sage does dedutions for you once you have set up the employee ... you need p45 or print off a p46 ... it wont send money into employees bank account but you know how much to send ... i think sage will send money to hmrc but not sure as Joe under Ni / Tax lower earnings so nowt to pay

Went with sage payroll as do all my own bookkeepping now and sage cashbook is a piece of cake to use and sage payroll will link to sage cashbook.

[bobplum]

bob ive had loads of people ringing me asking me if thats one of my job adverts in the jobby, said no i respect staff and pay decent wages 

watch your back on Tuesday night pal

talking of which what time is kick off on tuesday