NumberMill was set up, specifically to meet the requirements of recruitment business’s for support with regard to the pace of recruitment, volume workforce management, financial, strategic and compliance affairs.
Bureau and PEO proposal – Save you money – Reduce your payroll costs
Many of our clients find that running an internal PAYE function is not cost or time effective. In some cases, their PAYE engagement is managed through their funding supplier, reducing their market options.
Taking control of that function gives them the flexibility to choose the right funding supplier for them and find the best deals on the market.
For other clients, the cost of maintaining an internal payroll team and the key-person vulnerability this gives them is a concern.
For these clients, outsourcing the administration and even the engagement of their pool of workers can be beneficial.
NumberMill provides three models which can help streamline the payroll process whilst maintaining PAYE engagement for the workforce.
PAYE Bureau
• You are the employer.
• NumberMill takes payroll data from you, processes the payroll through our software, reports figures to HMRC against your PAYE reference, reports data to your pension supplier, produces payslips and payroll reports. NumberMill sends payslips via your nominated email account to the employees.
• You supply NumberMill with all payroll related data, new starter information, finishers and weekly hours/rates. You handle all contractor interactions barring payslips, with our support.
Our PAYE Bureau service comes in 3 levels for you to choose what is best for your organisation:
Admin Only
• After processing the payroll, a payment file will be sent to you for you to make payments to the employees from their bank (dependent on your online banking accepting payment file uploads)
• NumberMill invoice will only be for NumberMill charge and will be vatable
Admin & Payment
• After processing the payroll, NumberMill will make the payments to the employees from our bank
• NumberMill invoice will be for NumberMill charge and will be vatable and for the employees net pay which will not be vatable.
Admin, Payment & Liabilities
• After processing the payroll, NumberMill will make the payments to the employees from our bank
• NumberMill invoice will be for NumberMill charge, the employees net pay, the tax and national insurance due to the HMRC for the worker. The entire invoice will be vatable.
• When due, NumberMill will make payment to the HMRC against your PAYE reference for your P32 liabilities (the withheld tax and NI)
NumberMill PEO – Professional Employment Organisation
Employing a workforce does not only take up time in the payroll processing, but also the boarding, issuing of contracts and handling of payroll queries.
For organisations wishing to focus on what they do best, we offer our Professional Employment Organisation service.
NumberMill PEO
• NumberMill are the employer and following an on-boarding call, issues a contract of employment to the employee
• NumberMill takes payroll data from you, processes the payroll through our software, reports figures to HMRC against our PAYE reference, reports data to our pension supplier, produces and issues payslips to the employee
• We invoice you for the employee’s gross pay, holiday pay, statutory on-costs and our margin
• The worker receives a simple PAYE payslip with no on-costs showing
• NumberMill handle all payroll updates and queries from the employee.
Some of our clients prefer to know in advance the hourly cost of their workforce. For these clients we can offer NumberMill Fixed Price PEO.
You simply inform your NumberMill consultant of the hourly budget you have or the PAYE rate you wish to offer. Your consultant will advise you of the fixed hourly cost or the maximum PAYE rate NumberMill can offer within that budget.
From there, the employee’s experience is identical for NumberMill PEO but you have the peace of mind of knowing exactly the hourly budget of engaging that worker.
For a confidential discussion on the subject, please contact us using the details below and speak to one of our specialists:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, outlined the government’s latest plans to grow the UK economy with policies underlines as “Enterprise, Employment, Education, Everywhere”.
Opinion – somewhat disappointing, particular in regards to
Nothing real for business unless in a niche sector – No change to Corp Tax or any increase in liftetime allowance for business assest disposal
Childcare welcomed, however timing is erroneous – due to having to get infrastructure in place, I am sure if the funding was immediate providers would get that in place quicker.
Pension benefit – The benefit really is for the highly paid public sector worker who can afford to put in £60k a year
Summary
The chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced during the Spring Budget 2023, the main priorities of the government are to halve inflation, grow the economy and get debt falling.
In January 2023 the prime minister set a target to reduce inflation by 50% by the end of 2023 from the rate at the time of 11.1%, the highest in 40 years. The current expectation is for inflation to reduce to 2.9%, significantly surpassing the targeted inflation decrease.
The government are looking to grow the economy through increased employment numbers by both incentivising and enabling employment for anyone able to work. This will be achieved through increased access to childcare for parents, access to additional resources for those with disabilities to enable them to find jobs they are capable of and providing over 50s with resources to allow them to continue working rather than retiring early.
The current debt stands at £2.5 trillion which represents 98.9% of GDP. The chancellor advised that the main aim will be to reduce borrowing for day to day spending while increasing borrowing for long term investments. Borrowing is currently £24.7 billion lower than the November 2022 forecast. The aim is to bring borrowing down to 1.7% of GDP by 2027-28.
An overview of the key Spring Budget updates have been included, with full details linked below.
Pensions
Due to the “Pension Trap” which has resulted in experienced doctors retiring early, the maximum pension contribution has been increased by 50% from £40,000 to £60,000 per year and the previous pension lifetime allowance of £1,073,100 has been abolished.
Energy
Originally the £2,500 energy cap guarantee was expected to increase to £3,000 from April 2023 onwards, however has been adjusted due to energy costs dropping allowing the cap to remain at £3,000 until the end of June 2023.
The government is committed to investing:
£20 billion in carbon capture technology with the aim to capture 22 million tons of carbon by 2030.
Investment in nuclear energy with the aim to have 25% of British energy be nuclear by 2050.
Nuclear energy to be reclassified as environmentally friendly and receive the same allowances as other environmentally friendly forms of energy.
Levelling up
Over £200 million put towards local regeneration projects in areas of need.
Over £400 million for new levelling up partnerships for 20 areas in England.
12 investment zones in the UK set around universities will be given a budget of £1 billion to promote business growth in these areas.
£8.8 billion over five years towards City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements
Business Tax
Research and Development tax credits for businesses which spend 40% or more of total expenditure on Research and Development. Tax credit received will be at 27% of total investment.
The Super-Deduction for capital expenditure will be removed from April 2023 onwards, however this will be replaced with full capital relief on the majority of capital expenditure.
Education and childcare
Priority for education is to allow parents better childcare to allow them to continue to work.
Minimum nursery staffing requirements to be decreased from 1 adult to 4 children to 1 adult for 5 children.
Schools to operate a wraparound care scheme to offer parents with primary aged children care before and after school ranging from 8am to 6pm.
Universal credit to allow for parents to immediately receive refund for spending on children rather than weeks in arrears. Additionally Universal Credit will be increased from £646 a month per child to £951 for one child and £1,630 for 2 children.
Parents with children under 3 will receive 30 hours a week in free childcare for up to 38 weeks a year. this is aimed to be expanded to children aged 3-4 from April 2024.
Employment
Offering a Midlife MOT for over 50s to ensure health and career guidance ahead or retirement.
People with disabilities will be able to search for employment without the risk of losing their disability benefits.
Up to £4,000 per person budget to help disabled people find suitable role and cater to their needs.
Enterprise
£900 million of funding towards an AI research resource
£2.5 billion commitment to 10 year quantum research in innovations program.
Tax reliefs offered for the Arts industry to reduce economic pressure.
Defence
Defence will receive an extra £5 billion in funding over the next 2 years and £2 billion a year in addition funding going forward.
Military funding expected to be at 2.5% of GDP, 0.5% above minimum requirement.
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When planning a future exit for you from your business, it is advisable to look at the recent past and try to understand the market for similar organisations.
NumberMilllooked at Merger & Acquisition data from the recruitment sector and found a significant increase in M&A deals featuring foreign investment with 28% of deals in 2022 featuring a UK agency being acquired by international buyers. This is up from 8% in 2021, possibly representing the post-Brexit landscape settling and domestic markets being less attractive in a post-pandemic world.
Across all sectors, UK M&A’s were down over 10% compared to 2021 but still represent historically strong numbers and Recruitment M&A reflects this trend. Although down against the flurry of activity in 2021, there was still more movement than on average throughout 2019-20.
The largest recruitment related M&A area of 2022 was Recruitment Software / Platforms with over 30% of the deals done, unsurprising in our current app-driven world. For recruitment businesses themselves, IT held up as an attractive prospect for buyers (arguably for the same reasons as the Software Platform businesses) but the strongest sector were generalist agencies with over a quarter of all Recruitment related M&A deals. STEM agencies came in third but with less than 10% of the overall numbers.
What must also be noted is that the average EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortisation) to Enterprise Value (EV) has dropped significantly during the first quarter of 2022 with peaks in mid-January.
It has been suggested that this, like many of the financial woes faced by businesses and individuals this year, are due to the Ukraine situation but this could also mirror the housing market experience with a surge of purchases post-lockdown driving prices up.
The EV/EBITDA multiples seem to have settled around 6x post-March onwards.
If you are contemplating an exit, NumberMill Accounting as a specialist accountant to the recruitment industry is well placed to help prepare your business for sale in the best light, ensure the buyer due-diligence process will not discover unexpected liabilities and advise you on your personal tax affairs and the most advantageous way of moving forwards.
For a confidential discussion on the subject, please contact us using the details below and speak to one of our specialists:
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