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Ways to Reduce Employer ACC Costs

ACC has a number of options available whereby employers can reduce their premium costs.

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ACC – Accidental Death Entitlements

We recently attended the Coffee Brief put on by EzyPay and they had a speaker from ACC telling us what ACC can do for people. The biggest surprise to everyone there was your entitlements from accidental death.  I had no idea this was available from ACC at all, which I think was the case of […]

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ACC – Time Out

Thinking of taking time off work to have children, to study, to travel  or for another reason? If you’re planning a break, you should consider ACC Timeout to make sure you’re still adequately covered for non-work related accidents. Under ACC Timeout, if you’re injured while taking a break you can receive weekly payments of up […]

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ACC – Employer Reimbursement Agreement

It’s always a stressful time when an employee needs to go onto ACC due to an accident (work or non-work related) as after the first week its the responsibility of ACC to pay the employee 80% of their Normal Wages. The process of getting this up and running involves the employee lodging a claim with […]

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ACC – Is it a Tax or Insurance?

The first in a series of articles covering what ACC is all about and the services it provides to both Employers and Employees. One of the biggest mis-conceptions is around the payments we pay as employees.  Currently all wage earning employees pay 1.7% of their Gross Pay to ACC.  This is called the Earner Premium […]

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ACC is your friend!

We have been doing a bit of research with ACC lately and have discovered there is a lot about them that we don’t know, especially in relation to what we are entitled to. Over the next few weeks we will be discussing different aspects of the ACC Corporation, how they are their to help us […]

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ACC Calculations over $106,473

This is a question for Payroll Software providers.  If ACC levies are  capped at a  Gross Income of $106,473 do you automatically tax all income above this threshold at 38% or are you using a rate of 39.7%? If it is the latter then are you not overtaxing employees to the tune of 1.7%? If […]

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