Accountants under pressure to process payroll claims

As the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) portal opened last Monday, accountants have encountered a high demand from clients to prepare payroll documents on time.
“One of the issues, when looking at the job retention scheme itself, is about getting the payrolls and the submissions process in time. A lot of our clients, understandably, wanted to submit their claim as soon as the portal opened on Monday, but there was still a lot of detail in terms of the rules around the system that wa