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HMRC's Business Tax Dashboard – month 5 information
8 January 2014
HMRC is aware of an ongoing IT issue that, in some cases, is preventing the Business Tax Dashboard from displaying up to date month 5 information for a relatively small number of employers.
For these employers the Employer Payment Summaries (EPS) data submitted for tax month 5 only (6 August 2013 to 5 September 2013) is not appearing on the dashboard.
In these instances, the dashboard will show:
an incorrect position for month 5, but the correct figures for tax months 6, 7 and 8, and 'year to date' HMRC's internal systems show the correct position.
HMRC has investigated this matter and it appears that it will only affect employers who submitted EPS between 8 and 13 September 2013.
What happens now
You do not need to contact HMRC if you submitted an EPS between 6 August 2013 and 5 September 2013 and you think that the Business Tax Dashboard shows an incorrect PAYE position for month 5. HMRC has details of all the cases affected and is working on correcting them. They hope to have made all these corrections, so that the Business Tax Dashboard shows the correct month 5 PAYE position, by mid-January 2014.
HMRC apologise for any inconvenience caused by this issue .
Looking ahead to April 2014 – reporting the use of relaxation for Micro employers
9 January 2014
We reported in December 2013 about the relaxation that will run from April 2014 until 2016 for micro employers who are still struggling to update their processes for RTI.
As the 2014-15 tax year will see the beginning of automatic penalties for late filing or non- filing in real time there would need to be, as you would expect, a system for accounting for times where an employer might be late in reporting PAYE information under RTI. HMRC had previously issued to software developers detail about the options available for reporting these cases - often referred to as data item 154 . As you might imagine, with news of the relaxation coming through in December there were questions as to how this relaxation would be accounted for within a previously declared and detailed data item 154.
Guidance has now been issued to software developers on the list of options and reasons for late reporting under data item 154 and the list now reads as follows:
CIPP Policy News Journal
16/04/2014, Page 351 of 519
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