Mar 11 2010
From 01 April 2010 any employees using a secondary tax code that expect their income from all sources to be less than $14,000 per year, can utilise the new tax code SB, this tax code deducts PAYE at a rate of 12.5%
Feb 26 2010
Ezypay approached a number of Health Insurance providers to see what they could do for our clients. Unimed have come back to us and are treating Ezypay as one large employer based on the number of employees we pay for our 140 odd clients.
The Group benefits are available to all our clients, regardless of how many employees within your company wish to participate.
These great benefits are:
These great benefits can be provided as part of an employees salary package by our Clients, at no additional cost to them.
If you or any of your staff are interested please email me for an info pack.
Feb 17 2010
Minimum Wage – From 1st April 2009
There are three groups to calculate minimum wages for. These are the ‘Adult Minimum Wage’, ‘New Entrant’s Minimum Wage’ and ‘Training Minimum Wage’.
Adult Minimum Wage
This applies to all workers who are 16 years old and over who are not new entrants or trainees. The adult minimum wage increases from $12.50 per hour to $12.75 from April 1st 2010.
New Entrant’s Minimum Wage
This applies to employees aged 16 or 17 years who have completed fewer than 200 hours or 3 months of employment, whichever is shorter and who are not supervising or training other workers. An employee will not be a new entrant if they are a trainee who is subject to a training minimum wage. The new entrant’s minimum wage is increasing from $10.00 per hour to $10.20 from April 1st 2010.
Training Minimum Wage
This applies to employees aged 16 or over who are required by their employment agreements to undertake at least 60 credits a year of a recognized industry training programme. The training minimum wage is also increasing from $10.00 per hour to $10.20 effective from April 1st 2010.
Additional Information Regarding Minimum Wage
There is no set rate for employees under 16 years old.
The rates are gross before tax.
Holiday pay must be paid in addition to the minimum wage.
There are serious ramifications for breaches of Minimum Wage requirements (and holiday pay) and Labour Inspectors (Labour Department) have the power to issue demand notices if:
Labour Inspectors can enter the employer’s premises under the provisions of the Act, interview people and require copies of wages, time and holiday records.
Employers who fail to comply with any ‘requirements’ of Inspectors face penalties under the Act.
For further information, please go HERE!
Dec 17 2009
One of the benefits of our job is that we get to deal with people from every sort of industry out there.
Recently, I was passing through Cromwell and decided to stop off and visit one of our clients who run the Nichols Garden Cafe in Cromwell.
As luck would have it the owners, Alan and Louise were having a day off but I caught up with three staff members who were all happy to chat with me.
The view looking up Lake Dunstan towards Wanaka.
The friendly staff at Nichols Garden Cafe, from left to right are Michelle, Christine and Rebekah.
Some of the great food selection available.
So if you are heading towards Queenstown from Christchurch or Alexandra, you will find Nichols Garden Cafe on the left (part of Nichols Garden Centre) just before you turn left (after passing the town) for Queenstown.
Nov 11 2009
We have been fielding a large number of calls lately and one common question seems to be how we handle PAYE payments as a number of bureaus are taking the Gross pay from their clients, hanging onto the money, and then paying the IRD when due.
Our preference is that you, the client, handles the payment of PAYE to the IRD directly. This way you get to keep your money in your bank account and you decide when you pay it. We provide you with all the reports you require.
However, we do have some clients who request us to pay the PAYE for them. We can only provide this service if you are using us to process the DC file each pay as you must be setup on the ASB Payment Service we use.
In these cases we make a payment directly from your account to the IRD on the closest working day to when the payment is due. If the payment falls on a weekend we will always make the payment the Friday before.
We do charge an additional $15 to process these payments for you.
Nov 09 2009
If you are short of ideas for Christmas for your partner, wife, girlfriend then consider the 2010 NZ Fire Services Calendar.
It has 12 great photo’s of NZ Firfighters in various stages of undress. The calendars cost $10 and part of that is donated to Child Cancer.
You can order online at http://www.firemanscalendar.co.nz/
Nov 09 2009
We have been using an Online backup service provided by Nexus Data Backup for over 18 months now and we cannot recommend their service highly enough.
Prior to moving to them we were doing regular backups to DVD and then having to take these off-site each week, now we have to do nothing and the Nexus systems syncs every night any changed files.
The few times we have had to restore anything it has been simple and error free, even whilst overseas.
Nexus is running a promotion at the moment whereby any new clients they take on that are referred by us, go into a draw for a $500 Christmas Hamper and a FREE personal/home backup account.
If you would like more information about Nexus their website is HERE. The person to talk to is Chris Sefton.
If you would like to enter the draw (you do need to sign up for their service) then enter your details HERE.
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