Les Bichard, business development director at Guernsey-based company Global Computing, says he is alarmed by the number of employers he has met who have not updated their payroll packages.
The new system means that employers will need to file their tax returns on a monthly basis instead of quarterly, as previously.
In most cases, Mr Bichard says, this calls for a complete update of payroll systems.
‘A lot of businesses are going to be taken by surprise if they don’t act quickly,’ said Mr Bichard.
‘I have been talking to employers who despite all the recent publicity have no idea that from January next year they will need to be filing monthly returns.
People just don’t know what they have to do – they are thinking, does this really affect me? But they will need to make some informed decisions before the end of the year if they are going to be ready.
