Annual Conference and Exhibition Souvenir Supplement 2018

Annual Conference and Exhibition Souvenir Supplement 2018

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“Once again the CIPP Annual Conference and Exhibition was one of the go to events on the payroll calendar.”

Melissa Goddard, Chief product officer, SD Worx

“Networking – deeper engagement with like-minded organisations”

Ginnie Freeman MCIPP, Commercial director, Income Group

“And very much energised by the speakers who brought so much to the conference in terms of learning on how we all tick or can improve ourselves.” Jackie Horgan MCIPPdip, Team leader payroll and expenses, Rolls Royce

Plenary one – Welcome to the 34th annual conference

Marc Woods, chair, Chartered Institute for Management of Sport and Physical Activity

Marc began by welcoming everyone to the conference, and then delivered the inspirational and humorous story – Path to Gold – of his life, attitude and drive to succeed despite a serious disability.

Marc was diagnosed with cancer at age seventeen, which lead to the amputation of his left leg below the knee. After surgery, Marc, a county swimmer, was soon swimming quicker with the one leg than he previously did with two.

It was his ambition to be the best. Within eighteen months of ending chemotherapy Marc would represent Great Britain at the Paralympic Games. He went on to complete another four Games and won 12 medals.

Marc’s presentation included video clips of two relay swimming races he participated in with three disabled team mates. In the first, the team finished second to the German team by a tiny fraction of a second. This loss, albeit tinged with silver success, drove Marc and his team to be better. Indeed, in the second video the team smashed the world record finishing in first place well ahead of the German team.

Though the story suggests personal ambition, drive and success, it extends to include the swimmers’ support team without whom their success in the pool could not be achieved. Marc emphasised that success requires everyone to focus and work together.

Marc’s story, which prompted several rounds of appreciative applause, resonated with attendees some of whom as conference speakers included elements in their own presentations.

“This year I felt I gained a lot of personal development rather than just payroll development, and I really felt lifted by this.”

Sarah Welch FCIPP, HR business partner – payroll and HR systems, Total Gas and Power

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Plenary two – Brexit – The clock is ticking, are you ready?

Linda Scott, chief executive officer, West Lothian Chamber of Commerce/director of Scottish Chambers

Linda provided information about the Scottish Chambers, which is involved in many business support services and in regular dialogue with the Scottish and UK governments, and then dived into the issues arising from Brexit.

In outlining the implications for business and how best to prepare, Linda discussed:

● addressing the threats and opportunities of Brexit, including supply chain, routes to market and increasing market share ● addressing currency and how it can affect businesses such as the potential effects of currency fluctuations on business ● identifying and understanding staffing implications of Brexit ● providing insight to the taxation considerations businesses must make.

Plenary three – Motivational session

Kevin House, The Art of Brilliance

This session, at the beginning of day two, was uplifting, motivating and stimulating.

Kevin revealed that in 2006, as an out of control, obese, heavy drinking type 1 diabetic, doctors gave him the ultimatum: change or face the consequences. He’d tried to change many times but had consistently failed. But after reading some of that ‘airy fairy positivity stuff’ Kevin was surprised by the results when he put the ideas into practice.

After running the New York City marathon in 2007, he never looked back. The benefits are incredible: more energy, improved mood, excellent diabetic control and flourishing professionally.

Kevin discussed life satisfaction and the choice to be happy. He introduced the ‘2%ers’ - people who are their best selves the majority of the time.

Delegates learned of the four horsemen of negativity: monotony, tiredness, complexity and news, plus how to overcome the imapct of negative people or ‘mood hoovers’. Kevin illustrated how our behaviour affects those around us with a video of a ‘2%er’ train driver whose on-board announcements changed the mood of the passengers on his train.

Kevin encouraged delegates to make everyday a special pants day.

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Plenary four – HMRC panel

The following three representatives from HM Revenue & Customs answered questions submitted by delegates. ● Gerry McShane, PAYE senior process expert on the Individuals Team, PAYE and NI Business Delivery Team ● Jackie Levy, HMRC business delivery lead for PAYE Employers and Construction Industry Scheme ● Richard Garth, Customer engagement team. A few of the questions posed to the panel: ● When HMRC change a tax code putting the employee onto a Wk1/Mth1 basis why don’t HMRC explain the reasoning behind this to the taxpayer? ● Are HMRC officers paid a commission/bonus for finding employers that have breached the minimum wage? ● With RTI now established, are there plans to remove the P45 as previous pay and tax figures are provided on P6 notices where applicable?

Plenary five – Legislation update

Helen Hargreaves MSc ChFCIPPdip, CIPP associate director of policy

Helen provided an informative and engaging legislation update on the following range of topics affecting the world of payroll:

● Brexit ● devolution ● termination payments ● student loans

● Taylor review ● Office for Tax Simplification ● CEO pay ratios ● payslips ● off-payroll working in the private sector ● short-term business visitors

● apprenticeships ● childcare vouchers ● workplace pensions ● future developments

● minimum wage ● gender pay gap

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Plenary six – Employment law update

Jade Linton, associate solicitor, Thursfield Solicitors Ltd

In an engaging and very informative session Jade’s update covered:

● equality of pay update – gender pay gap reporting: what the reports inform; examples: Apple, Ryanair ● modern working practices – the ‘good work plan’: including day one rights ● taxation of termination payments – position from April 2018, plus case studies ● an overview of changes in 2018 – fit for work assessments, NM/LW, childcare vouchers.

Evening entertainment

On the first evening of the conference, the entertainment group The Noise Next Door, which also featured at the Scottish National Conference in September, invited audience suggestions and transformed them into fantastically funny scenes and songs with a perfect blend of ludicrous characters, witty one-liners, epic stories and explosive physicality.

“I picked up quite a bit on networking, management and the digital age going forward.”

Sharon Anderson BA (Hons) FCIPPdip, EMEA payroll manager, Trustwave

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Welcome from…

During the conference the Institute’s overseas guests addressed the delegates extending a welcome message and outlining the role and activities of their payroll associations.

● Sandra Morrison, chair of the board of directors, Canadian Payroll Association ● John Raguz, president, American Payroll Association ● Helena Holdwright MCIPP , director, Irish Payroll Association ● Tracy Angwin MCIPP , chief executive officer, Australian Payroll Association ● James McKerrell MCIPP, chair, South African Payroll Association (Jason Davenport, vice chair, CIPP, delivered his welcome)

Penny’s conference special

Our favourite biscuit factory payroll manager Penny Fordham from the ongoing ‘confessions’ series in the CIPP’s membership magazine made a special appearance at the Conference which is commemorated with a special booklet of all 29 stories to date along with a very special Conference diary that everyone can relate to, following the excitement of an Awards night and the many networking opportunities.

A few copies of Penny’s Conference Special are available by contacting [email protected] with ‘Penny’s Conference Special’ as the subject. Postage costs and a contribution to the CIPP’s designated charity required.

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W1 – OpRA – Preparations for a PAYE audit Julie Northover MCIPP , director, PayPartners Ltd Julie examined the potential pitfalls of not correctly identifying and reporting optional

W4 – How to network like a pro with confidence Bella Rareworld, networking trainer and speaker, BellaNetworking Training Ltd

Bella provided attendees with discussion opportunities to

remuneration arrangements and discussed the rules for ensuring a salary sacrifice arrangement is successful. HMRC will be looking closer at benefits under an OpRA and examining the management of long-standing salary sacrifice arrangements.

understand preparing and creating SMART networking goals, creating positive networking mind-set for success at every networking event, questions to start any conversation and follow- up to build long-term relationships.

W2 – Pension freedoms – What have we learned so far? Henry Tapper , founder, Pension PlayPen

W5 – Why CPD is so important to professional career development Helen Hargreaves MSc ChFCIPPdip, associate director of policy, CIPP Julie Lock MCIPPdip, innovation director, Mitrefinch Ltd

In this workshop, for payroll people interested in pensions,

Henry discussed whether pension freedoms are working as intended, are there unintended consequences, the options for those who want ‘freedom from freedoms’, and the consequences for payroll.

Julie and Helen discussed the importance of CPD, both to employers and individuals and how to make best use of the CIPP’s CPD logging tool. The session included how it benefits employers, how individuals benefit from logging CPD and an overview of the CIPP CPD logging tool and how to use it.

W3 – Creating an expenses policy Deborah Saunby, sales and marketing director, Selenity Jas Jhooty, director, emTax In this session Deborah and Jas provided an overview of expenses legislation, moving onto providing best practice advice on common problem areas that attendees need to be aware of when writing their expenses policies. Topics included legitimate business travel and the information the policy should contain.

W6 – Complying with GDPR Karen Thomson MSc

ChFCIPPdip FHEA, director of payroll services, Armstrong Watson LLP

In this session Karen recapped on the GDPR legislation and

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