Policy News Journal - 2011-2012

Further to our news item of 3 October 2010, the Internet technical pack for RTI has been updated to include version 2.0 of the RIM Artefacts. From February 2012 onwards, all xml submission must conform to the validations and namespace(s) included within this version of the Artefacts. Any submissions made after February which still contain the current namespace(s) will be rejected. There is a summary of these changes within the technical pack, however for clarity they are summarised below: · The allowable values for "Directors NIC and method of calculation" (data item 84A) will be changed to allow "AN" for annual and "AL" for alternative calculation methods. · Data item "Tax Week/Month number of appointment of director" (data item 84B) has been renamed to remove reference to "month". · Data items "Total of Employer NI contributions in this period" (data item 86A), "Total of Employer NI Contributions year to date" (data item 86Aa), "Employees contributions due on all earnings in this pay period" (data item 86B) and "Employees contributions due on all earnings year to date" (data item 86Ba) will remain but they will be repositioned to be included in the iterative group containing data items 79 to 84. · Data item "Value of earnings at or below the Lower Earnings Limit Year to Date" (data item 82) will be renamed to remove reference to "or below", this does not require a change to the schema. · Data items "Value of earnings above Lower Earnings Limit to Primary Threshold Year to Date" (data item 82A), "Value of earnings from the Primary Threshold to Upper Accrual Point Year to Date" (data item 83) and "Value of earnings from Upper Accrual Point to Upper Earnings Limit Year to Date" (data item 84) will be changed to allow non-zero amounts to be reported within the pence fields. This will allow any employer using the exact percentage method to report the relevant pounds and pence in these fields. In cases where the maximum amount is reached or exceeded, or the employer is using the table method, the amount reported will always end in 00 to denote whole pounds. · Validation on data item "Income Tax Year to which submission relates" (data item 18A) will be changed to ensure that the submission relates to a tax year that is no more than 2 years earlier than the current tax year. For the purposes of the RTI Pilot, this will always be 12-13. In order to use the TPVS, VSIPS and LTS test services in advance of 6 April 2012, your xml messages must include a containing a date within the 2012/13 tax year as detailed within the "How to use" document. If you have any queries regarding these changes, please don't hesitate to contact the software development team at sdsteam@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk . 25 November 2011 The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) is pleased to see that HMRC has today announced that due to huge interest in RTI that they will be extending the pilot from around 300 employers to 1300 employers. The CIPP believes this is due to the commitment and dedication of employers and their software providers. Click here to read the HMRC press release in full. RTI PILOT TO BE EXTENDED TO 1300 EMPLOYERS

CIPP Policy News Journal

09/10/2012, Page 135 of 234

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