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Free Payroll Administration course

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The first three chapters online, with a knowledge check after each chapter. Plus a PDF with a worksheet and cheat sheet.

You can read the lessons straight away. For the PDF, you leave your details.

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Prefer to have a trainer there with you?

The two-day Payroll Administration course. You work through real payslips yourself and can put your own questions to a trainer with hands-on experience.

€1250,- excl. VAT

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For many people a payslip is a page full of abbreviations. Grondslag LH, SV-loon, bijzonder tarief, werkgeversheffing Zvw. As long as the net amount is correct nobody looks at it, but as soon as an employee asks a question or the Belastingdienst sends back a notification, you want to know exactly where every figure comes from. Payroll administration is not a matter of pressing buttons in a software package; it is understanding what that package does.

This free online course is the starter for our full Payroll Administration. In three chapters you first learn to assess whether there is an employment relationship, because that determines whether you have to withhold anything at all. You then work through the gross-to-net calculation step by step and learn how to explain a payslip. Finally, you see how the payroll tax return is structured, what the Dutch Tax Administration checks in it straight away and how to correct an error properly. Each chapter ends with a short knowledge check.

The full course goes on to cover setting up a payroll administration, expense allowances and pay in kind, the payroll tax tables, the employee insurance contributions, the Health Insurance Act, illness and the end of employment, the work-related costs scheme and the wage cost benefits. Would you like to go through these topics with an experienced trainer, and with your own payslips on the table? Then take a look at the Payroll Administration course.

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Chapters 1 to 3 in a single PDF, with a worksheet and cheat sheet.

Contents:

  • 0.-

    Introduction
    How this free course is structured, what you learn in the three chapters and why you should always check the figures yourself.

  • 1.-

    When does an employment relationship exist
    The three types of employment relationship, the three criteria that together make up a genuine employment relationship and the special working relationships you come across in practice.

  • 2.-

    From gross pay to net pay
    How gross pay is built up, the difference between taxable pay and social insurance pay, the seven calculation steps and how to explain a payslip.

  • 3.-

    The payroll tax return
    The collective part and the employee part, the deadlines, making corrections with a correction notice and the four levels of checking.

  • 4.-

    Introduction to payroll administration
    The importance of accurate records, the administrative obligations and the parties involved with their responsibilities.

  • 5.-

    Setting up a payroll administration
    Registering as an employer, recording the employee's details, setting things up and periodic processing.

  • 6.-

    Expense allowances, provisions and wages in kind
    Pay in all its forms, untaxed expense allowances, benefits in kind provided to employees and valuing pay in kind.

  • 7.-

    Withholding obligation and payroll taxes
    When you are liable to withhold, what payroll tax actually is, and working with the white and green tables and the special rate.

  • 8.-

    Employee insurance contributions
    National insurance schemes versus employee insurance schemes, calculating the contributions and assessing whether insurance is compulsory.

  • 9.-

    WIA, WGA and the Health Insurance Act
    The Work and Income (Capacity for Work) Act, self-insurer status for the WGA and the Health Insurance Act contribution.

  • 10.-

    Payments in special circumstances
    Illness and continued payment of wages, pregnancy, birth and parenthood, and the end of employment.

  • 11.-

    The work-related costs scheme
    How the WKR works, the final levy when the allowance is exceeded, and how to divide taxed and untaxed pay in the best way.

  • 12.-

    Remittance reductions and wage cost benefits
    The WBSO scheme for research and development work, the wage cost benefits and the low-income benefit.

  • 13.-

    Current developments and changes in legislation
    The annual cycle of tables and contribution rates, and the issues that will affect your processing in the years to come.

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