Nest Is Coming Home To Roost For Uk Smes

The UK Government and UK taxpayer both have painful long term fiscal headaches to sooth in the form of an aging population many of whom currently reach retirement age without sufficient financial resources to support themselves through their retirement.

The 2008 Pensions Act laid out the detail of the UK government's Workplace Pension Reforms intended to address the problem. The centre piece of reforms is the requirement that unless employees specifically opt out they must be enrolled in a scheme.

If employers do not offer their own Workplace Pension Plan (WPP) then by default they must adopt the governments National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) defined contribution scheme. The important thing to appreciate is that no matter what form of pension scheme they choose all UK employers will have to provide a scheme for their employees whether they want to or not.

Auto-enrolment will begin in 2012 with the biggest employers and will conclude by 2017 when all firms must enrol staff. The date when auto enrolment becomes necessary for individual firms depends on the last two digits of their PAYE reference number.

Currently it is common for small and medium size enterprises not to offer a pension scheme to employees due to the complexity and associated costs of administering it. Soon this burden will have to be carried by these firms. Firms will have to make sure they contribute the correct amount in to their employees pension plans and modify their payroll functions to ensure the appropriate deductions are made from employee salaries. Miss-management of employee pensions could precipitate legal action.

For small and medium sized firms it will prove much simpler to outsource the implementation and management of pension and payroll arrangements to an accountant. Outsourcing payroll and pension administration is a simple solution to the complexities and associated risks created by being involved in a pension scheme. A suitably qualified accountant will have the technical expertise to accurately manage contributions and will be legally responsible for any errors. The accountant is also likely to be acting for numerous other clients who have outsourced payroll and pension scheme functions which will give them the requisite specialist knowledge, experience and tools to do so more efficiently and therefore at a lower cost.

Copyright (c) 2010 Richard Barlow

About the Author:
Richard Barlow works at McGregors Corporate a financial services firm with offices throughout the Midlands UK. For more information about excellent value pension and payroll outsourcing options come to: =>
http://www.outsourcepayroll.org.uk

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