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Pay as You Go Nanny Payroll
Zest Payroll Solutions operates a friendly, reliable payroll service to help parents employing a nanny on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Unlike other nanny payroll services, we don’t charge you an upfront annual fee, you just pay on a monthly basis for as long as you need us.
Nanny Employer Responsibilities
If you pay your nanny above the National Insurance Lower Earnings Limit (LEL) you must register as an employer with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). For the 2012/2013 tax year the LEL is £107/week or £464/month.
They will open a PAYE (pay as you earn) scheme for your nanny’s tax and national insurance payments.
As an employer you have legal responsibilities regarding paying your nanny.
These include:
- Providing your nanny with regular payslips.
- Paying your nanny’s income tax and National Insurance contributions.
- Paying statutory payments such as Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) if the nanny is sick.
- Keeping tax records.
- Paying employer’s National Insurance contributions.
- Completing an end of year return.
Zest Payroll Solutions can help with all of these as well as advise on payroll matters.
How does Zest Payroll Solutions operate?
If you have not already done so, Zest Payroll Solutions will register you as an employer with HMRC, opening your PAYE scheme.
We then act on your behalf dealing with all HMRC correspondence.
Once we have your nanny’s details, you inform us of the salary or hours worked each month and we calculate what you need to pay your nanny and what is due to HMRC.
We will email you the payslips and any accounting reports that you may require for your own records.
You just have to make the payments.
How much does it cost?
We operate a monthly payment basis – a pay-as-you-go service!
We don’t charge you a yearly subscription where you are tied in.
Our current nanny payroll fee is only £15 per month*.
The monthly fee includes your end of year return filed online if the same nanny is still in your employment at 5th April.
(*Extra charges will be incurred if there is no nanny in employment at 5th April, if your Nanny leaves and is replaced.)