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2009 Asia Pacific

Technology Fast 500

Congratulations to SmartPayroll for making the Deloitte Asia Pacific Technology Fast 500! 

Over the past eight years Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has watched technology companies in Asia Pacific achieve incredible growth, and tracked their opportunities, ambitions, challenges and threats. The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific Ranking and CEO Survey is one of the region’s most comprehensive and respected rankings of fast-growing technology companies.

SmartPayroll is very proud to achieve a ranking in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the Asia Pacific.

Chris Partridge and Vicky Taylor were pleased to receive the award on behalf of Smartpayroll at the awards function in Wellington.

Chameleon Events recently organised the film premiere to Peter Jacksons new film, The Lovely Bones in Wellington. During this period we had to produce a large diverse team that were a mix of contractors and employees through the duration of the event to ensure that it was a success. Due to such a busy period Chameleon was under pressure due to the short hire of many new staff and  SmartPayroll was the solution. We were very impressed, as the payroll was processed in under a one week from the completion of the event at a very low cost to us, and minimal involvement from our end was needed. We are now contracting SmartPayroll to process the pay for all of our companies, and we fully recommend other companies should do the same.
Regards,
Jamie Wilson
Event Director
Chameleon Consultants
www.chameleonevents.co.nz

SmartPayroll’s new premises were opened by Mayor David Ogden on Thursday 26th November.  The local news media covered the occasion and published the article in the Hutt News.
To view the article, please click the thumbnail image below.

Mayor David Ogden receives demo of SmartPayroll, the online payroll system

Ben Shaw cuts the SmartPayroll cake

SmartPayroll congratulates Ben Shaw of Allfinanz Chartered Accountants Ltd on being our 3,500th new customer to sign up to our online payroll system.
Ben was invited to cut the cake at our official opening.

You may have heard that the new Payroll Giving legislation comes into effect on 7 January 2010 and wondered what it’s all about.

From 7 January 2010 if an employer decides to offer payroll giving (and it’s up to the employer) it gives employees the opportunity to donate to approved donee organisations directly from their pay and receive immediate tax credits that reduce their PAYE.  Previously employees had to wait until the end of the year to claim those tax credits.

You may have wondered if SmartPayroll will be able to cope with the new changes.  The answer is Yes!

Our team of technicians have been working hard to make sure that SmartPayroll will be able to handle payroll giving very easily when it goes live on the 7th January 2010.  SmartPayroll will handle all the employers’ obligations as follows:

• Deduct the requested donation amount from the individual employee’s salary or wage
• Calculate the correct tax credits for payroll donations for each donation made
• Record the tax credits for payroll donations for individual employees
• Keep records of all tax credits for payroll donations, donation amounts, donee organisations and payment dates
• Pass the donations to the chosen donee organisations within the specified timeframe of the deduction being made from the employee’s salary or wage
• Advise the donee organisation the donation is a result of payroll giving.