Without trying to sound like a Dolly Parton or Tina Turner tribute act, it can get pretty sucky waking up nigh on every day, donning your professional self and stepping into the big wide world of never ending paper work and overly-energetic children, chewing the sleeves of their uniform in the most cringe-worthy way humanly possible.
And what do you get for it?
(Other than a viable excuse to drink copiously at the weekend without fear of judgement?)
Without trying to sound like a Dolly Parton or Tina Turner tribute act, it can get pretty sucky waking up nigh on every day, donning your professional self and stepping into the big wide world of never ending paper work and overly-energetic children, chewing the sleeves of their uniform in the most cringe-worthy way humanly possible.
And what do you get for it?
(Other than a viable excuse to drink copiously at the weekend without fear of judgement?)
Your P60!
This magic piece of paper details everything you could possibly need to know about your pay. Total pay to date, total tax paid, NI contributions, pension contributions… it’s a pretty nifty little bit of hardware, to be honest. And entirely necessary to live in the grown up world of mortgages and tax credits. And complaining about the NHS.
By law, you have to receive your P60 by the 31st May (though it will be dated 5th April – blame the postman?) and Dataplan, your handy payroll processors, will be the ones who send it your way! Unless you don’t outsource to us. But why would you not outsource to us? We’re lovely, honest!
From then on keep it safe, keep it secure, keep it in a fireproof box in a nuclear bunker in a secret location nobody would ever possibly think to look.
Or, you know, you could just keep it online?
eP60s are en vogue now, and have been since 2010/2011 tax year – saving forests across the globe for almost half a decade. Constant access to your financial details, an ever-growing historical archive, the ability to go Poiroit and investigate anything that seems mismatched or questionable, Plus, if you’ve had your own little human that year (that we dream will grow up in a world full of eP60s and, well, general, magical, environmentally friendly goodness) you’re privy to the total amount of SMP/OMP/SPP paid to you.
What’s not to love?
Well, not to put you off, but we’ve got that covered too.
Some banks can still be a little funny about the ‘look’ of a printed copy of a P60 – if the quality isn’t great and the colour’s gone all funny and drained then they might get a little uptight. However, it is an acceptable form of proof of earnings because it is HMRC approved. Some people just don’t like change, y’know?
Also, if a school converts to an academy, in order to set the new business up in our system a P45 is issued from the old school to use to input employees onto the new payroll. If an employee then doesn’t earn anything from that point until the end of the tax year no P60 is issued and all you’re left with is a P45. Which looks less good as proof of earnings. And if you lose that then things are going to get really complicated, because there are absolutely no duplicates for P45s.
Originality is so overrated
Which is where payslips come in handy! And even handier if they’re constantly available to you via your smartphone. See where I’m going with this? ePayslips! Shiny and lovely and unstoppable when combined with an eP60. Practically. Essentially. For the most part.