REAL TIME INFORMATION “ON OR BEFORE” SURVEY
30 May 2012
The RTI legislation states that employers will be required to submit a Full Payment Summary (FPS) “on or before” payment is made. Many CIPP members are contacting the CIPP Policy & Research team on this issue and believe that being required to submit on or before will cause them additional costs and or administrative burdens. A member of the Policy team will be attending the next RTI Customer User Group Meeting, and the team would like to take supporting evidence to the meeting. The team would be grateful if you could spare 5 minutes to complete the following survey . The closing date for responses is 15 June 2012. Thank you in advance.
EDI CONFIRMED FOR RTI UNTIL 2016/17
31 May 2012
At the CIPP National Forum in Newcastle yesterday, HMRC were talking to members about Real Time Information (RTI) and released the welcome news that EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) will be permitted until 2016/17. For some time now the policy team have been concerned that if HMRC were to implement their Strategic Solution for RTI i.e. submissions to be sent down the Bacs channel and Internet rather than EDI, then software developers need to know yesterday. As you will know HMRC announced the interim solution which is to allow EDI and Internet until at least 2014 and this has now been extended to 2016/17. HMRC has not however confirmed if this is an extension, or whether this means their original Strategic Solution is under review?
The Policy team will be monitoring future developments and will of course seek feedback from our industry if and when appropriate.
HMRC press release reads:
Update on use of Electronic Data Interchange for sending PAYE information in Real Time
Last year, we published our technical pack which explained that, as a transitional arrangement, employers would be able to send Real Time Information (RTI) to HMRC using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) at least until April 2014 as well as the Internet channel (which we plan to retain long term).
We now envisage that we will retain EDI until at least 2016-17.
This will allow employers and the banking and software industries time to implement the interim RTI solution; and for HMRC to learn from the RTI pilot and consider and understand the benefits of a longer-term RTI solution.
We will publish more information and update the RTI web pages, in due course.
The introduction of RTI is not affected. The RTI pilot, which includes reporting by EDI and internet via Government Gateway, began as planned on 11th April 2012 with a controlled go- live as part of the 12 month RTI pilot. The pilot will help us learn and iron out any wrinkles before most employers and pension providers start to use the RTI service in April 2013, with RTI routinely operating by October 2013.
CIPP Policy News Journal
12/04/2013, Page 185 of 362
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