It comes as a nasty shock to numerous HR payroll professionals to discover that they are unwittingly laying their businesses wide open to severe financial penalties for neglecting liabilities on behalf of non-executive directors. Fact of the matter is that increasing amounts of businesses, including small businesses, appoint non-executive directors to their boards, yet many genuinely fail to understand how payments should be correctly and legally applied.
Resultantly, HR payroll representatives of businesses of all sizes employing external individuals in non-executive directorial roles regularly assume that they are going about dealing with remuneration and liabilities correctly and legally. Their assumption that they are doing everything above board is often due non-executive directors being utilised on an outsourced basis. Therefore, individuals fulfilling non-executive directorship duties for businesses raise and submit invoices, and are paid gross amounts accordingly. Yet in reality businesses should actually apply PAYE and National Insurance deductions at source. Despite feeling confident that they are doing everything right, many businesses are caught out by their lack of specific expertise in this area, incurring unexpected and unwelcome penalties, accompanied by relevant arrears and interest charges.
Numerous businesses find tax a particularly challenging phenomenon to understand and deal with in real terms. This confusion is one of the many reasons that businesses across a diverse range of sectors and sizes turn to outsourced professional payroll companies to provide the specific expertise they lack internally. It is the responsibility of a premium payroll company to remain ahead of complex and continuously evolving tax legislation, ensuring that businesses with dramatically different payroll types remain up to speed with tax liabilities and do not fall short due to lacking knowledge.
At Moorepay, we offer befitting payroll services to businesses with small and straightforward or large and complex payrolls. Our payroll solutions encompass the correct application of tax liabilities in the cases of directly employed staff and non-executive directors alike.