Changes to the NMW rates – From 1st April 2024 the national minimum wage (NMW) rates are increasing, also the age bands have changed, there is no longer a band aged 21 to 22, this has now been merged into the National Living Wage, the rates are shown below.

NMW rate from 1st April 2024 Rates
National Living Wages (21 and over) £11.44
18–20-Year-Old Rate £8.60
16–17-Year-Old Rate £6.40
Apprentice Rate £6.40

These are the minimum rates of pay most employees are entitled to. You can use the minimum wage check option to check you are paying your employees the correct rates, make sure that you check your employees on a regular basis because after their birthday they could be due a higher rate of pay.

Important Dates

• 5th April 2024 – Tax year ends
• 19th April 2024 – Final submission of 2023/24 tax year deadline.
• 31st May 2024 – P60s must be distributed to employees by this date.

Sage 50 Accounts V30
Sage 50 Accounts v30 is currently being released and has a host of new features and enhancements to make life easier.

If you would like any more information on the new Sage 50 Accounts v30 and how it can help your business or need help installing it or if you would like to purchase an upgrade or need any other help, please contact us

Sage 50 Accounts V30.0 has now been released now, with many new and improved features such as: –

• Bank Feed Rules Enhancements – in 29.2 a new interface was added for Bank feeds, this has now been extended to fully integrate the creation. approval, and management of Bank feed rules. All the information needed to create a new bank rule is now on one screen. There is a new approve tab, where transactions can be clearly seen before approval or rejection, which can be done on an individually or multiple basis.  The updated Manage rules screen lets you view, edit or delete any rule.
• 64-bit version – by default Sage 50 Accounts V30 has transitioned to a 64- bit version. This change enables Sage 50 to work seamlessly with Microsoft Office and other third-party applications developed by various people. It also means that it improves memory capabilities, improves performance and less chance of out-of-memory issues etc. A 32bit version will still be available on demand if required.
• Report Finder – For Cloud users there is a new report finder within the report browser. The report finder allows a natural language search to be entered, which uses AI to understand and find the most suitable report.
• New Tax Code property for fees – if you receive payments via Stripe a manual change to the VAT return was required to correctly show the reverse charge on the VAT return associated with the fees. In V30 a new check box has been added to the Edit Tax code screen labelled Invoice Payment fees. If this option is selected the reverse charge for the bank payment will be automatically reflected in boxes 1,4, 6 and on the VAT return.
• Bank defaults for Bank Payments and Receipts – now in V30 the default tax code, department and nominal code can be chosen for Bank Payments and Receipts independently from the Suppliers and Customers defaults.
• Miscellaneous updates Reports – the number of reports within Sage 50 V30 has been reduced by removing redundant reports and consolidating multiple reports into one eg instead of 7 detailed day books reports for suppliers there is one report where the desired transaction type can be selected within the criteria screen.

If you would any more information on the new Sage 50 Accounts v30.0 and how it can help your business or need help installing it or if you would like to purchase an upgrade or need any other help or anything else, please contact us

Sage 50 Payroll V29.3 update has now been released, and needs to be installed as soon as possible, this update includes the changes to the NI rates.

If you need help with downloading it and installing it or if you need any other help, please contact us

Sage is currently working on V29.3 and it will be released before the 6^{th of} January 2024 which will include the changes to the NI rates.

If you are planning to take time off over Christmas and are planning to use the advance pay option, however in some cases you must not process advance pay due to the NI rates changes due from 6^th January 2024.

An email will be released as soon as the update is available letting it is available for download, if you need help with downloading it and installing it or if you need any other help, please contact us  

Please note that this update is not compatible with Excel Integrated Reporting (EIR) or Sage 50 HR Data Synchronisation.

An email will be released soon letting you know when it is available for download, if you need help with downloading it and installing it or if you need any other help please contact us

Sage 50 Payroll V29.1 has just been released and includes new features and updates to the NHS pension bands

• Enhanced help and support within your software – Even more help guides have been added covering more areas of the software, including pensions module and online services.
• Improved integration between Sage HR Online Services to Sage 50 Payroll – when you make changes to employee details in Sage HR, you can now import these directly into Sage 50 Payroll. More details you amend in a Sage 50 employee record now update in Sage HR Online Service automatically when you upload their payslip.
• Email P45 – you can now email a P45 report to a leaver rather than printing it and giving it to them.
• NHS Pension band changes – this update includes the latest salary bands for each NHS pension tier.

Sage 50 Payroll V29.1 has just been released and if you would like to see how any of these new features can help you or would like help to install the update, or if you need any other help please contact us