The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals ……………………………………………………………Policy News Journal
The idea is to allow you to compliment your existing payroll software, through which employers and agents make submissions to HMRC, with additional functionality. The API could allow you, for example, to show your employers or agents:
how much they owe for each tax month or period; a history of their payments made to HMRC, and which tax months they were allocated to; penalties; interest.
HMRC’s SDS Team would like to meet with any software developers who would be interested in developing this functionality either as part of your existing payroll software, or in a separate application, to understand your needs, for example:
what kind of functionality you'd like the API to offer; your preferences for API design (including learnings from previous HMRC APIs).
The SDS Team will be holding a workshop in London on Wednesday 30 November from 10am - 2pm (with lunch provided) at 25 Lavington Street, SE1 ONA.
Please email sdsteam@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk if you would be interested in attending this workshop, along with your role in your organisation. Spaces will be confirmed for the first 10 recipients, and the Team will keep in touch with anyone else who shows an interest for future workshops, and surveys.
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Local Test Service and LTS update manager 24 November 2016
The Local Test Service for software developers has been updated to LTS 5.4.
Software developers can use the Local Test Service tool to test their software against HMRC rules within their own environment.
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Scottish Rate of Income Tax and Relief at Source 28 November 2016
HMRC’s Software Developers Support Team is asking for feedback from 3 rd party software developers.
As a consequence of Scottish Rate of Income Tax, Pension Scheme Administrators (PSAs) will be required to operate the correct rate of Relief at Source (RAS) depending on whether their scheme member is a resident of Scotland or the rest of the UK from the tax year 2018/2019 onwards.
The current Relief at Source Process is outdated and HMRC would like to encourage PSAs to communicate with us using automated and updated methods as we also want PSAs to submit their annual return to us digitally.
To ensure PSAs use the correct rate of RAS from 2018/2019 onwards, we want to provide an automated process where HMRC will notify the correct rate of RAS for PSAs in the January to use in the following tax year. Additionally, we also need to provide the correct RAS rate for any new scheme member if they joined the scheme after we gave out the bulk RAS rate report. This will be a digital look up service for the PSAs to utilise.
Along with all of the above, there will be some additional messaging between HMRC and PSAs that will be required. HMRC have an API strategy and we would hope that strategically we can encourage PSAs to use an API service.
HMRC would like to give 3rd Party Software Developers the opportunity to explore whether there is a market for this service and would welcome your feedback and whether you would like to register your interest for providing this functionality to your users.
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