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Re: How difficult is a payroll system?

From	Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: How difficult is a payroll system?
Date	2016-09-03 08:17 +0100
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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.

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