On 13 Aug, 00:34, zeebop <y...@um.right> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:19:27 GMT, Ronald Raygun
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> <no.s...@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
> >PeterSaxton wrote:
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> >> On 12 Aug, 13:28, Ronald Raygun <no.s...@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
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> >>> > 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.
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> >>> 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?
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> >> 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.
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> >Don't HMRC provide idiot-proof instructions to businesses wishing
> >to do it themselves?
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> http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/paye/daytoday.htm-

And they read that every time they do payroll?