Payroll sounds deceptively simple. And yet there is more to payroll processing than merely issuing a payslip or P45. For starters, on the 5th of every month, you need to ensure you make those real-time submissions. Then by the 19th or 22nd of the next month, you need to make payments to the HMRC towards PAYE and NIC. Plus, at the same time you need to see that you are using the right P6/P9 notice, are checking WPP compliance, making the pensions payments and also seeing to other aspects like NMW requirements. Whew! And that’s just the start.