On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:19:27 GMT, Ronald Raygun
<no.spam@localhost.localdomain> wrote:

>PeterSaxton wrote:
>
>> On 12 Aug, 13:28, Ronald Raygun <no.s...@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
>>> PeterSaxton wrote:
>>> > I would say that I would charge about £500 a year. Most clients who do
>>> > there own payroll spend about half a day on it every month plus the
>>> > year end.
>>>
>>> Do you think that 6.5 days of a junior bookkeeper's time is going to cost
>>> them more than £500, especially given that the person would perhaps be
>>> underemployed if not doing this task?
>> 
>> Is it worth the practical certainty that they will get things wrong?
>> They are not usually very good at taking into account changes in
>> legislation, changing tax codes, dealing with statutory payments, etc.
>> If a client wants their small payroll done properly they would be
>> better off getting an accountant to do it.
>
>Don't HMRC provide idiot-proof instructions to businesses wishing
>to do it themselves?

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/paye/daytoday.htm