Stafftax Payroll & HR Service for Private Chefs

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An all-inclusive domestic chef payroll service for your peace of mind.

A chef within a private household can help to provide bespoke menus and flexible catering for you, your family and your guests. A good private chef will always want to provide the highest standard of cooking and service for their clients and our domestic private chef payroll service matches this high standard. We make employing a chef easy and help you to ensure you fulfil your legal obligations as an employer.

Plus, it gives you unlimited access to our team of experienced employment experts who will support you through the sometimes confusing areas of HR, such as staff sickness, maternity pay, redundancy, tax rates and holiday entitlements.

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We Deal With HMRC

Our end-to-end domestic staff PAYE payroll service will take care of all your HMRC responsibilities.

Provide Payslips & More

Each month we’ll e-mail you when your payslips are ready to view and download. We also process P45s every time an employee leaves and provide you with a P60 for your employee at the end of the tax year.

Bespoke Contracts

Stafftax will provide you with a tailored contract, which is created by our specialist HR advisors.

Unlimited HR Support

Stafftax HR run a helpline to support you with any legal advice or behavioural queries. You can contact Stafftax HR at any time for no additional fee once you have subscribed.

Why we're the best

You can subscribe to Stafftax today from just £276 per year, add the workplace pensions service from £79 per year and Stafftax Plus for an additional £15 per month for your first employee.

Call us on 020 3137 4407 seven days a week, or you can click the ‘Subscribe now’ button below.

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Deal With HMRC On Your Behalf

That is everything from registering you as an employer, submitting RTI (Real Time Information) returns (a HMRC duty) for you every month, to producing and sending your chef their P60 at the end of a tax year.

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Bespoke Contracts

Stafftax will provide you with a tailored contract for your chef, which is created by our specialist HR advisors. We will also give you an employee handbook which explains the employment policies in detail, to help both you and your chef understand and agree to the terms in the contract.

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Provide Payslips And More

Each month we’ll e-mail you when your payslips are ready to view and download. We also process a P45 every time an employee leaves and provide you with a P60 for your employee at the end of the tax year.

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Unlimited HR Support

Stafftax HR run a helpline to support you with any legal advice or behavioural queries. You can contact Stafftax HR at any time for no additional fee once you have subscribed. We’ll also provide you with various downloadable factsheets, including holiday request forms to give to your employee to use, all via your Members Area.

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Online Members Area

Manage your Stafftax account from one place. Our online Members Area will keep a record of all payslips, P60s and other relevant documents. It is where you can make changes to your employee’s salary and tell us when your chef is leaving. Additionally, you can set up your chef with their own members area so that they can view their payslips as and when they need to.

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Additional Services

We provide additional services to help keep you compliant and make your employment journey as simple as possible. From our complete Workplace Pensions Service where we manage all your private chef’s auto-enrolment requirements, to our Stafftax Payroll Plus Service where we’ll pay your chef and HMRC on your behalf.

Pricing

Payroll & HR

£276per annum
  • (£20 surcharge for weekly payslips)

 

  • All domestic chef payroll
  • Payslips, P45's and P60's
  • Deal with HMRC
  • Unlimited payroll support
  • Bespoke contract of employment
  • Unlimited Employment Law advice and Support
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Payroll, HR & Pension

£355per annum
  • (£40 surcharge for weekly payslips with pension)

 

  • Includes everything from our Payroll & HR Service
  • Plus our complete end-to-end Workplace Pensions Service
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Payroll, HR, Pension & Plus

£535per annum
  • (£40 surcharge for weekly payslips with pension)

 

  • Includes everything from our Payroll, HR & Pensions Service
  • We'll make the salary payments directly to your chef
  • We'll pay your Tax and NI Liabilities to HMRC

 

  • Stafftax Plus will be charged monthly by direct debit (£15pm).
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Employment Contracts & HR

As part of our Stafftax chef payroll service, you will receive a free bespoke contract of employment tailored by our CIPD-qualified HR experts. You will also have unlimited access to our team of HR professionals and receive expert advice on your HR related queries.

The Stafftax HR phone lines are open from 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday, and clients can also access a wide range of Stafftax HR resources through the HR section of their Members Area.

How do I join Stafftax?

We understand you might prefer to talk to someone about hiring a chef, to discuss our domestic chef payroll services or to answer any queries you may have.

Our friendly team are available to talk 7-days a week, from 8.30am – 7.30pm, Monday to Friday and 10am to 4pm on Saturday and Sunday, on 020 3137 4407.

Alternatively, you can get set up with Stafftax immediately by joining us now online.

Online sign up is unavailable for our 3 and 6-month subscriptions.

Our dedicated team look forward to chatting with you about employing a chef and answering any queries you may have about any of our services.

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