{"id":868,"date":"2017-02-27T09:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T09:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/?p=868"},"modified":"2017-02-28T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:03:32","slug":"are-you-hiring-contract-staff-there-are-new-rules-on-off-payroll-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2017\/02\/27\/are-you-hiring-contract-staff-there-are-new-rules-on-off-payroll-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you Hiring Contract Staff? There are new rules on &#8220;off payroll&#8221; working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From \u00a06 April 2017 the university, and all public sector bodies, will be required to\u00a0determine whether their off-payroll consultants\u00a0will be working in a manner akin to an employee.\u00a0 This change will affect all off-payroll engagements from that date, including on-going arrangements which commenced prior to April.<\/p>\n<p>If you are involved in the hiring of contract staff\u00a0at Kent you will need to help us determine whether the new rules apply.<\/p>\n<p>Higher risk engagements\u00a0are those with contractors that provide their services personally via their own limited company, known as a personal service company (PSC) or through another intermediary such as a partnership.\u00a0 This model may be used by the following groups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IT consultants<\/li>\n<li>Project Managers<\/li>\n<li>Business Analysts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the news rules do apply, we will be required to deduct PAYE income tax\u00a0and National Insurance (NI)\u00a0from the payments made to these &#8216;workers&#8217; in a similar manner to permanent employees and report and pay these deductions over to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).<\/p>\n<p>Contracts that are not affected by the new rules will continue to be paid via an invoice as they are now.<\/p>\n<p>The Payroll team will be liaising with the Finance Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to provide guidance on how to apply the new rules and assess\u00a0their impact.<\/p>\n<p>If you have specific questions on this issue, please email <a href=\"mailto:payoffice@kent.ac.uk\">payoffice@kent.ac.uk<\/a> in the first instance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From \u00a06 April 2017 the university, and all public sector bodies, will be required to\u00a0determine whether their off-payroll consultants\u00a0will be working in a manner akin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2017\/02\/27\/are-you-hiring-contract-staff-there-are-new-rules-on-off-payroll-working\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137337,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}