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Everything you need to keep your payroll compliant

Join over 20,000+ Payroll & HR professionals in The Payroll Centre's bestselling course!

This Payroll and HR Annual Update course is attended by more payroll professionals than any other payroll training course and is an essential annual staple for payroll and HR professionals. Over 90% of delegates attending rebook for the following year to keep themselves and their companies compliant with the ever-changing legislation.

The course programme constantly evolves to cover the latest legislation, case law, and proposals for change, leaving you confident that your business remains compliant.

Public Face-to-Face Payroll & HR updates include:

  • CPD certificated 6-hour Payroll Update course
  • Comprehensive hardcopy Payroll Update course manual
  • 12-months payroll helpdesk support
  • 12-months online access to the Payroll Update course manual
  • All hospitality during the day

Virtual Payroll & HR updates include:

  • Access to our online Payroll & HR on-demand course
  • CPD certificated 6-hour Payroll Update course
  • 12-months payroll helpdesk support
  • The definitive Payroll & HR Legislation Update manual
  • A 1-2-1 call with one of our Payroll tutors to ask any questions you have
  • Opportunity to attend a live online Payroll Update delivered by one of our Payroll tutors

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Courses Overview

Duration: 1 day / On-demand Price: £656+VAT CPD: 6 hours certificate

Who will it benefit?

The course is ideal if you have a day-to-day responsibility for any aspect of payroll or HR where it is critical to understand how changes to practice and legislation impact your operations.

It is suitable for professionals running payrolls of any size within the UK and those professionals developing HR policies.

What you'll achieve?

On completion of this annual course you will be completely up-to-date with current UK payroll and HR practices and legislation.

You will be confident of your ability to process compliant payrolls and be able to deal with queries from colleagues who deal with HR, pensions, rewards and benefits .

Course Content

The course programme constantly evolves to cover the latest legislation, case law and proposals for change, leaving you confident that your business remains compliant.

Due to continually changing legislation, following completion of the course, delegates are provided with web access to regularly updated course notes to ensure continued support after the course.

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Payroll Update 2025

Income Tax

  • Tax and Allowances in England and Northern Ireland
    • Codes, Allowances, Bands and Thresholds
  • Scottish Income Tax (SIT)
    • Codes, Allowances, Bands and Thresholds
    • The future path of Scottish Income Tax
  • Welsh Income Tax (WRIT)
    • Codes, Allowances, Bands and Thresholds
    • Welsh plans around change
  • Future Tax Expectations and government plans

Payroll Benefits

  • Focus on the current voluntary process and registration
  • The change through mandation and challenges, issues, and areas of focus

Childcare

  • What’s new in the workplace for supporting childcare – free childcare

Salary Sacrifice and Flexible Benefits

  • Unravelling Salary Sacrifice, its rules and value
  • Future change and the themes currently being used
  • Schemes and Administration

National Insurance

  • UK Rates and Thresholds including changes announced
  • With a new government – has the National Insurance direction changed?
  • Use of the Employment Allowance and changes
  • National Insurance savings – updates and best practice
    • The future of Investment Zones, Veterans, and Freeports

Real-Time Information and the future of Payroll

  • Updates, changes and new data requirements for RTI in the future
  • Impacts of changes to RTI including the implementation of mandatory change
    • Payrolling benefits?
  • Changes to the FPS
  • Changes to the EPS

Holiday Pay

  • Updated 2025 guidance – their application for 2025
  • A review of case law and tronc

Managing the Overpayment Conundrum

  • Rules regulations and understanding their impact
  • Managing the process
  • Understanding the Procudure
  • Staff management

International Updates

  • Understanding the issues and effects of Permanent Establishment

Statutory Payments

  • Employment Law Payments and Awards
    • Great Britain
    • Northern Ireland
  • Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) – rates and tables
  • Changes to Sickness and Absence including:
    • Outstanding consultations
  • Parental payments and tables including maternity and other parental rates
    • Confirmed Parental Pay changes and new requirements
  • Neonatal leave and Pay
  • The Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Bill
  • Updates to other forms of leave

Student and Postgraduate Loans

  • New Rates 2025/26
  • SL and PGL updates

Employment Changes

  • Flexible Working and hybrid working
  • The Employment Bill and Making Work Pay
  • Working from home
  • Tips, Gratuities and everything that’s changing
  • Future possible employment changes

National Minimum Wage

  • Changes to Age bandings and Rates
  • The Voluntary Living Wage / the Real Living Wage

Expenses and Benefits

  • Mileage Rates
  • Loans
  • Travel and Subsistence
  • Company Cars
  • Double Cab Pick-ups
  • Car Rates and Changes through to 2028
  • What’s to come 2028/29
  • Ultra-Low Emission Vehicles and WLTP
  • Future expectations around fuel and the environment
  • Company Van rates and charges

Pensions

  • State Pension payments
  • The Annual and Lifetime Allowance
  • Auto Enrolment and Re-Enrolment Update
    • The Auto-enrolment changes and timelines
  • State Pension Age and Retirement
  • The Pension Dashboard
    • Position, implementation and live dates
    • What it means to payroll and pension savers

"I have chosen The Learn Centre both for my own knowledge base and in-house training courses for my teams for many years. I have always been extremely impressed with the content of the courses, people engagement and the positive feedback from my staff."

Ann Chesher
Head of Employee Services at 1Life (Management Solutions)

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