Contributing to employee non-workplace pension

Hi thomasmeany

We would be grateful if you can inform us how you currently pay towards the pension scheme, are the contributions taken from your personal bank accounts?

Hi, 

We (both directors) currently are lower rate tax payers and contribute to the scheme manually with funds that have been paid to us personally from our business. However, this means we have to pay NI contributions so for each £100 we contribute we pay £12 in NI contribution which we would not have to pay if this was paid directly from our salaries. 

Does Quickbooks have the option to setup an employee pension contribution which is NOT a workplace scheme?

Tom

Hello Thomas

Are you using QuickBooks Online Payroll or Paysuite for your payroll? If you click on employees does it say powered by Paysuite in the top left if you are clicking on employees

Thanks

Emma

QuickBooks Online Payroll

Hi Tom,

Currently the QuickBooks Online Payroll only supports workplace pensions which are based on employee and employer calculation percentages.

Do you pay a known amount into your pension each month?

Hi, 

Could you flesh your answer out a bit? It will help others with the same issue in the future. 

If I understand you correctly the Quickbooks online system only permits a fixed percentage of employer and employee contribution each month. This can be paid in three formats:

Relief at source (no tax)

Relief at source (w tax)

Net

I would opt for option 3 since in this way we could receive payment of the total amount before any deductions like NI or EE.

Is this possible? We do contribute fixed sums but would apply this via a percentage if necessary.

Best,  

Hi, can you tell me when QB will be offering pension contribution functionality other than workplace pensions?  Many small business owners (me included) contribute to a SIPP each month.  QB does not appear to be able to deal with this.   

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https://support.yourpayroll.com.au/hc/en-au/articles/[removed]-Setting-up-Deductions

think this can be done by 'Setting up an indefinitely recurring deduction',  labelling it as "Pension" which will appear on the payslip.

Then arrange to pay funds directly from the Business Account > SIPP account, to remove any ambiguity of SIPP funds going through your personal account and possible being viewed as taxable income received

Hi

I am trying to get an answer to this through online chat with quickbooks support but am still none the wiser whether you can set up a non-workplace pension in Quickbooks for one off payments to my SIPP.

Has the functionality now been added to Quickbooks or are only workplace pensions possible?