An online tax registration service was also delivered in April 2012 for Corporation Tax, Self Assessment (including Class 2 National Insurance Contributions) and PAYE for Employers. Further enhancements in October 2012 will add VAT to the service but until then any customer wanting to register for VAT will be directed to the current online registration service. Delivering the facility to register and provide information for the main business taxes in a single visit to the HMRC website speeds up the tax registration process for new businesses. Using intelligent form technology the registration service reduces the time taken to register a new business and the need to provide the same information repeatedly. Automatic validation of the information submitted highlights errors or omissions. This registration service is a vast improvement on the previous, and largely manual, multi- stage process businesses had to navigate and growing businesses can also use the service if they need to register for VAT and/or PAYE for employers. Using the service automatically enrols the business for the associated online service (to include the VAT online service from October 2012).
Whilst HMRC is encouraging business to use the online tax registration service, it is not mandatory to do so and other ways to supply information about a new business remain.
Agents can also register clients for the various taxes but can’t enrol either themselves or their client/s for the related online service/s.
In addition, Companies House and HMRC have also introduced a joint registration facility within the Companies House Web Incorporation service which will allow incorporation and the facility to register a company for Corporation Tax in one process. Companies House has provided specifications for the change to their service to software developers.
What’s still to come
In October 2012 VAT Registration Transformation will be delivered.
This is far more than just automating VAT registration. It will be a re-design of the VAT process with a new user-friendly and secure service for registrations, variations (change of address etc), de-registrations and other business changes. It will provide a fully integrated service for which significant elements can be automated; including a self-service VAT certificate for VAT registered customers. Automatic issuing of VAT numbers will mean customers should receive their number far quicker than at present. Automatic validation of the information submitted will highlight any errors or omissions reducing rejected applications because they are incomplete or require additional information.
Employment Consultation Forum (ECF)
LATEST EMPLOYMENT CONSULTATION FORUM MINUTES PUBLISHED
26 July 2012
The latest meeting of HMRC’s Employment Consultation Forum took place on 21 June 2012.
The minutes are now available and include news that funding has been secured to suppress, from October 2012, inappropriate BR codes issued as a result of unsigned P46s being processed.
You can read the minutes on HMRC’s website .
CIPP Policy News Journal
12/04/2013, Page 118 of 362
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