The IRD are very good at wasting not only paper but postage as well. Ezypay as your payroll provider electronically file your IR 345 and IR 348 on your behalf either bi monthly or monthly ( unless you have specifically requested as not to ) If you have been receiving paper copies of these forms […]
Month: October 2012
Government announces new Youth Rate of $10.80
Employers will be able to pay young workers well below the minimum wage as part of a government push to get more unemployed teens into work. The new “starting-out wage” will be 80 per cent of the adult minimum wage, which is $13.50 an hour, for the first six months of work. The $10.80 an […]
Le Cafe is re-opening soon
For those of you from Christchurch I’m sure you lamented the loss of Le Cafe after the earthquakes. Where else could you go and get a decent coffee, desert, drink, and food after midnight! Well, the people behind Le Cafe are about to re-open in Christchurch (not in the same place) under a new name […]
New Feature – Reminders
Trying to remember those critical dates in relation to your staff can be a real pain, especially when we do the payroll and you don’t have access to the data…but we now have a new option which we are just trialing. Built into Platinum is a user definable Reminder System whereby we can create static […]
New Feature – DC file for your IR345 Payments
Tax, love it, hate it, but you gotta pay it. There are a number of options around how you can handle the tax payment (IR345) to Inland Revenue. We send you the IR345 report (remember we do the filing to the IRD for you) and you just use Internet Banking to make the payment. We […]
New Feature – The ability to add and track any form of on-cost
When it comes to payroll there are a number of additional, often overlooked, costs which are directly related to the wages you pay your employees. The most common ‘add-on costs’ are Employers Kiwisaver and Annual Leave, that is these are employer costs which are incurred when an employee works. Other add-on costs could be Employer […]
Auckland Client – Access Solutions opening in Christchurch
We have a number of clients from the rest of New Zealand who are taking the opportunity to help the rebuild in Christchurch, one of them is Access Solutions. – we would like to welcome them to Christchurch and wish them well on their new adventure. They have a variety of equipment including. scaffolding, scissor […]