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Streamlining Contingent Workforce Management

Streamlining Contingent Workforce Management, Outsource or Manage In- House?

The permanent recruitment market is changing and more Australian businesses are embracing contingent workforces.  With this growth it is essential that recruiters adapt and seek to improve processes and operations to manage this workforce effectively.

More and more agencies are investing in technology to improve efficiencies and streamline every day processes, and if you already haven’t done so it’s about time you did.  At SDP Solutions we offer recruitment agencies the choice of managing an automated, streamlined process in house through TemPay or alternatively outsourcing the management of their contractor and temp desk to SDP directly where a tailored solution can be built especially for your agency’s requirements.

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Changes to Payroll Tax

Liability of Payroll Tax

Payroll Tax liability within the on-hire environment has always been surrounded by some sort of uncertainty… does the responsibility lie with the recruitment agency, the end client or the contractor?

Australian Payroll Tax Laws vary from state-to-state. All states and territories the ‘Employment Agent’ provision of the various Acts requires that the company that on-hires the contractor to the end-user client is responsible for payroll tax. 
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How the Budget will impact Independent Contractors and Businesses

Author:  Raj Sesha, Director SDP Solutions and Tax Agent

Highlights for Independent Contractors and Businesses

With the Federal Budget 2014 announced, there was no doubt that we would all be affected in one way or another.  We all guessed right in what we were expecting… big cuts and changes.  Here we have focused the changes in the Budget that will affect businesses and independent contractors such as, tax, super and Medicare. The Key question that business will be asking, in my opinion is, what will be the impact on job growth and consumer sentiments as a result of this budget.

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