Handling PAYE payments

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.

Want a calendar full of 12 NZ Firemen

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/

Online Backup Service

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.