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Software developers: PAYE update 20 27 April 2016
Software Developers PAYE Update number 20 has been published which details a summary of PAYE values of Income Tax and National Insurance changes from 6 April 2016.
Updates are issued from time to time to provide further guidance for PAYE software developers. The aim of these updates is to provide assistance in product development, with the result of reducing and eliminating failure of future live submissions.
The guidance included in these updates is based on results from previous live PAYE submissions but also includes further information that developers may find useful.
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RTI technical specifications updated 27 July 2016
The RTI technical specifications for software developers have been updated and include a new 2017-18 RTI Data Items guide.
The RTI technical specifications have now been updated with version 1.0 of the RTI RIM Artefacts for 2017-18, and the updated 2016-17 RTI RIM Artefacts version 2.2, along with the associated changes documents. The specifications also now include a new 2017-18 RTI Data Items guide.
Please note that this update does not include any changes to validations relating to the ‘KC’ National Insurance number prefix. HMRC’s SDST will provide more information on this as soon as they can.
The test services will be updated in October 2016 and the live service for the beginning of the 2017-18 tax year.
For full details, see Real Time Information Online: support for software developers.
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PAYE tax table specifications for Scottish Rate of Income Tax 5 August 2016
As part of the implementation of wider devolution for Scotland the Scottish Government will be allowed to set income tax bandwidths that differ from the rest of the UK. These powers will apply from 6 April 2017.
Due to this change HMRC’s Software Developers Support Team (SDST) have provided a new draft of the Tax Table Routines specification which includes some new definitions for separate Scottish tax bandwidths.
The overall calculation method in the specification remains the same except that Scottish calculations no longer refer to the same bandwidths as the rUK calculations. The new definitions relating to Scottish bandwidths are shown in the definition list (at 2.1, 3.1, 9.1, 10.1) starting on page 8. The Scottish formulae and Appendices later in the document have also been amended to show these new definitions. This revised specification is being provided as a draft version initially to give SDST the chance to consider any feedback but it will be finalised/published in the coming weeks. If you do have any feedback please email SDSTeam@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk by 26 August.
This Specification supersedes all earlier ones showing the method of computing PAYE tax, and expands on the information contained in the "Employer Further Guide to PAYE and NICs" (CWG2).
Specification for PAYE tax table - draft v5
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