Multi-jurisdiction payroll services, run on schedule.

Multi-jurisdiction payroll services calculate pay, deductions and employer contributions in every country where you employ people, then file the statutory returns on each local deadline. Accountaire runs UK PAYE under Real Time Information, US Form 941, UAE WPS files, Canadian CPP and EI, and Australian Single Touch Payroll.

Payroll errors are the kind of mistake employees notice, and remember. Late wages, wrong tax codes, missed pension contributions, incorrect P60s. Every one of these damages trust and creates compliance risk. Yet payroll is exactly the kind of operational work that smaller businesses neither want to manage in-house nor want to overpay a local bureau for.

Our payroll service is built for businesses that hire across borders or simply want their domestic payroll to run faultlessly without occupying internal headspace. We handle the calculations, the payslip distribution, the statutory remittances and the year-end filings. You approve the pay run; we file it.

Because we work across five jurisdictions, we've seen the edge cases. UK directors taking salary plus dividends. US founders moving between W-2 and 1099. UAE WPS files. Australian Single Touch Payroll. Canadian CPP/EI nuances. Multi-state US payrolls where remote employees triggered nexus. We have playbooks for each.

Every payroll run is reviewed by a qualified accountant before submission. We don't run pay through a junior or an unsupervised software click. The senior responsible signs off, and your records reflect it.

Payroll is a deadline business, and the deadlines do not move for a bank holiday or a founder on a plane. The dates that drive every cycle:

• United Kingdom. A Full Payment Submission goes to HMRC on or before payday, every payday. PAYE and National Insurance are payable by the 22nd of the following tax month electronically, or quarterly if the average monthly liability is under £1,500. P60s are due to employees by 31 May and P11Ds by 6 July. HMRC sets out the full RTI cycle. See UK PAYE payroll.
• United States. Form 941 is filed quarterly, due 30 April, 31 July, 31 October and 31 January. Form 940 for FUTA is annual, due 31 January, and W-2s go to employees and the Social Security Administration by the same date. Deposit frequency is monthly or semi-weekly depending on your lookback period. See US Form 941 payroll.
• United Arab Emirates. Salaries are paid through a Wage Protection System file lodged with the bank or exchange house on the employer schedule, with end-of-service gratuity accrued month by month rather than found at termination.
• Canada. Source deductions for a regular remitter are due by the 15th of the month after the pay, and T4 slips are filed with the Canada Revenue Agency and issued to employees by the last day of February.
• Australia. Single Touch Payroll is reported to the Australian Taxation Office on or before each pay event, and superannuation guarantee contributions of 12 percent are due quarterly by the 28th.

The errors that cost money are almost never arithmetic. They are a starter processed on an emergency tax code that nobody corrects for three months, an auto-enrolment postponement notice that was never issued, a director paid at the National Insurance secondary threshold whose salary was not revisited after a rate change, or a US remote hire in a state where the employer had no registration. Each of those is cheap to prevent in the pay run and expensive to unwind afterwards, because the correction usually reaches employees and not just the ledger.

A worked example of the switching cost people underestimate. Moving a 30-person UK payroll mid-year means carrying year-to-date figures for pay, tax, National Insurance, student loan and pension across to the new software, then running one parallel cycle to prove the totals agree to the penny. Get it wrong and 30 P60s are wrong in May. We run the parallel cycle as standard, which is why a typical handover takes two pay periods rather than one.

Payroll journals post straight into the ledger we keep for you under cloud bookkeeping, so employment costs land in monthly management accounts in the month they were incurred. If you are weighing up the UK and US regimes side by side before hiring, our comparison of UK PAYE and US Form 941 sets out the differences, and the fee bands are on the fixed-fee pricing page. UK construction payroll carries a second scheme on top of PAYE: see our construction accountants page and the CIS scheme explained guide for verification, monthly returns and reclaiming deductions through the Employer Payment Summary. Payroll is almost never bought on its own, and the services it usually sits with are listed in our directory of accounting services.