National Payroll Week 2011

About National Payroll Week

Hosted by the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) in the UK, National Payroll Week is a global campaign designed to:

• Recognise the efforts of professionals working within the payroll industry
• Help workers to learn more about their payslips, payroll-related benefits and the payroll system in general

How did MidlandHR celebrate National Payroll Week 2011?

During National Payroll Week, our 'Payroll Egg-sperts' were challenged to pit their wits against a series of 18 customer-sponsored payroll questions. Questions and Answers were posted live on www.twitter.com/midlandhr and the full set of questions and answers can be downloaded here. The 'show' was also recorded.

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A Departmental payroll quiz also took place within MidlandHR on the first day of Payroll week, with teams from different departments throughout MidlandHR taking part. Just for fun, you can still take part! Why not use our questions to run your own payroll quiz? Email marketing@midlandhr.co.uk for a copy of the answers.

'National Payroll Week' Quiz

1. If HMRC's systems worked correctly, what would be the effect of tax code D1?

(a) All tax at 40%
(b) All tax at 50%
(c) All tax at 60%

2. When did PAYE start for the whole nation?

(a) April 1944
(b) April 1946
(c) April 1952

3. What is the highest rate of tax ever levied in the PAYE era, on unearned income, in the early 1970's?

(a) 78%
(b) 88%
(c) 98%

4. Income tax was originally introduced as a temporary measure to assist in defeating which tyrant?

(a) The Kaiser
(b) Napoleon
(c) Vlad the Impaler

5. Churchill’s Chancellor Sir Kingsley Wood should have been the man to announce the introduction of PAYE. He was unable to do so on the day because...

(a) The treasury was bombed by the Luftwaffe
(b) His train was late because of leaves on the track
(c) He dropped dead

6. RTI stands for:

(a) Regular Taxation Interval
(b) Response through Internet
 (c) Real Time Information

7. If you are a woman, are there circumstances where you could claim Statutory Paternity Pay?

(a) Yes, if you were formerly a man and have had a gender change
(b) No - don't be stupid, you are a woman
 (c) Yes, if you have paternal responsibilities for the baby

8. In terms of a maternity absence, what does EWC stand for?

(a) Expected week of confinement
(b) Expensive Welsh Cheese
 (c) Expected week of childbirth

9. Electronic filing for in year forms and end of year forms was introduced as a result of a recommendation by:

(a) Lord Carter of Coles
(b) Gordon Brown, when chancellor
(c) Old King Cole

10. Your organisation can be exempt from PAYE electronic filing if:

(a) It is a charity with limited funding
(b) It is a football club
(c) It is a religious organisation that believes that computers are the work of the devil

11. If a payroll is providing electronic payslips, can an employee insist on having a printed payslip?

(a) Yes, HMRC regulations state this as a fact
(b) No, Recent regulation has removed this right
(c) Yes, if the employee has no means of accessing an electronic payslip

12. If a pay office is told that a new employee has started, what is the minimum information required to enable a taxed and NI'd payment to be made?

(a) NI number, date of birth, name and address
(b) Just the name
(c) No information at all

13. If an employer has a tax office of Stoke on Trent, and they ring that office, they will speak to somebody in:

(a) Bangalore
(b) Stoke on Trent
(c) Newcastle

14. What is a PSA?

(a) PAYE Settlement Agreement
(b) Personal Spending Allowance
(c) Provisional Settlement Arrangement

15. If you took out a student loan to fund a course starting in or after 1998, you only need to start repaying the loan when you earn...

(a) £13,000
(b) £14,000
(c) £15,000

Tie Breaker questions

1. How long do the DWP now suggest it takes a legitimate claimant to obtain an NI number if they have not got one?
2. One of the transmission methods for electronic filing is EDI. What does this stand for?
 

Good luck!