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Software developers: Government Gateway downtime 18 October 2016
The Government Gateway ISV (VSIPS) test service will be unavailable from 10:00 until 13:00 on Thursday 20 October.
Software developers can still test using TPVS and LTS as these test services will be unaffected during this time.
HMRC apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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Government Gateway Transition and Transformation update 21 October 2016
HMRC’s SDST have issued an updated brief for software developers on the forthcoming changes to the Government Gateway.
Further to our news item on 10 August, HMRC’s Software Developers Support Team (SDST) have issued an updated presentation for software developers regarding Project RATE, Project EMAC and Project GG3 in respect of the forthcoming changes to the Government Gateway.
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NICs guidance for software developers 2017-18 24 October 2016
An early version of the 2017-2018 NICs guidance for software developer’s specification has been made available.
The specification has been produced using the 2016-2017 NICs structure where the Upper Secondary Threshold (UST) and Apprentice Upper Secondary Threshold (AUST) are the same value as the Upper Earnings Limit (UEL).
However, the Briefing Note sets out the changes which would be required to the formulae if the 2017-2018 UST and AUST are different to the UEL.
The values of the 2017-2018 NIC rates, limits and thresholds will be announced in the Autumn Statement on 23/11/2016 and an updated version of this specification will be issued after that date.
National Insurance Contributions guidance for software developers 2017-18
Briefing Note
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Further updates to GOV.UK pages for software developers 31 October 2016
It is the time of year where the pages of GOV.UK that provide resources for software developers are in a constant state of flux as further updates are added to technical specifications for the approaching 2017-2018 tax year.
2017-2018 technical specifications include the addition of RTI Data Item Guide 17-18 v1.1 and RTI valid xml samples 2017 to 2018 v1.0.
Non-form validation rules v1.0 has been added to RTI internet submissions generic technical specifications .
These updates are part of Real Time Information Online: support for software developers.
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