31 August 2016
Accentra has teamed up with leading Pension Auto Enrolment business Smart Pension to provide the only truly direct and fully automated integration solution for the upcoming Pension Auto Enrolment changes. Smart Pension is the only free Auto-Enrolment pension provider and has a 5-star Defaqto rating as well as being MAF…
11 July 2016
June 2016 saw the making of perhaps the biggest political decision of our lifetime, as the UK voted to leave the European Union. One of the key arguments of the Leave side was that, outside of the European Union, the UK would have much greater sovereignty and a better ability…
29 November 2015
Why Auto Enrolment? The private pension funding had poor reception from employees because it required the employees to opt into the pension scheme themselves, and there was no obligation for the employers to make contributions. The new Auto Enrolment regulation requires the employers to make provisions for a pension scheme…
27 November 2015
A new National Living Wage (NLW) is being introduced from April 2016. During his budget announcement, George Osborne explained that the NLW will be compulsory, and the government aims at reaching an NLW of £9 an hour by the year 2020. Here is an insight into the details of the…
26 November 2015
April 2016 sees a change in the tax regulations that will affect Scottish taxpayers. The UK income tax for Scottish taxpayers will reduce by 10p in the pound and at the same time a new Scottish income tax will be levied in its place. The rate of Scottish income tax…
