Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: How difficult is a payroll system? Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 08:17:16 +0100 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net O2KW4Mmp0SIYXx/BZ3lN4AO0lCjesgvQPmc1pcq9avazq/pT3C Cancel-Lock: sha1:PpmUARJtzCx7Vc70n7Lxp60GZi4= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:11914 Huge wrote: > Paul Sture wrote: > >> Having worked on payroll, the yearly changes to tax and social >> contributions seemed to be designed to break existing systems. It >> didn't matter how well you had parameterised your payroll system to >> minimise the impact of regulatory changes, the government would find a >> way that forced you to change your code. > > Having worked on payroll, I completely agree. Ditto (and I dare say it's got worse in the past 25 years). Accounts packages can run unchanged for years, with just the occasional tweak to tax rates, payroll tends to need program changes for edge cases as well as tax rate/threshold changes.