| Weekly benefit | 2011/12 | 2010/11 | |
| Basic retirement pension | - single person | £102.15 | £97.65 |
| - married couple | £163.35 | £156.15 | |
| Statutory pay rates - average weekly earnings £102 (£97) or over | |||
| Statutory Sick Pay | £81.60 | £79.15 | |
| Statutory Maternity Pay | |||
| - First six weeks | 90% of weekly earnings | ||
| - Next 33 weeks | £128.73* | £124.88* | |
| Statutory Paternity Pay - two weeks | £128.73* | £124.88* | |
| Statutory Adoption Pay - 39 weeks | £128.73* | £124.88* | |
| * Or 90% of weekly earnings if lower. | |||
Additional Paternity Pay and Leave may be available for a child due or adoptions matched on or after 3 April 2011.
Up to £15 million will be clawed back from academy schools before the end of the current academic year due to government budgeting errors, according to our data.
A quarter of all taxpayers may be paying the wrong amount of tax due to incorrect PAYE codes according to our analysis.
The cost of listing on AIM has risen at its fastest rate in more than five years according to our findings.
A sudden surge in M&A activity on AIM is being driven by private equity backed deals to take companies private, our research reveals.
From 6 April 2012 HMRC will be able to ask employers to pay a financial security where it thinks there is serious risk that the business won’t pay over their PAYE tax deductions or National Insurance contributions (NICs) on time.
The value of loans to businesses in the UK has slumped by 13% since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the second fastest fall among the G8, according to our findings.
Our international network, UHY, welcomes new member firm in Tunisia, CNBA.
Hot on the heels of an announcement from HMRC that the closure date for the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF) has been extended to 5 April 2016 has come speculation that the local banks are pushing for much higher transfers of funds into Liechtenstein and a minimum period for which any account must be kept open.
