The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Policy Bi-Monthly Newsletter – September 2016
HM Revenue & Customs
New services available through Personal Tax Accounts 1 August 2016
There are now have over 3 million customers using their Personal Tax Account (PTA) with more signing up every day.
From 1 August 2016 all HMRC customers who have PAYE income will be able to establish if their PAYE tax position for 2015-16 was reconciled, or whether they paid too much or too little tax. For the first time customers who have paid too much tax will be invited to submit their bank details through their PTA. They will then receive their repayment direct to their bank account within three to five days. Customers who have already authorised their agent to receive their repayment will not be able to use the online repayment service. Any customer wanting to withdraw an assignment or nomination would need to follow the existing guidance at PAYE 91040 . From Monday 1 August some customers may see a slight change to the end of year reconciliation letter they receive. The letter will encourage customers to use their PTA, and in addition their National Insurance number will also be partially obscured to help protect against identity theft. Customers who are due a refund can chose not to use the repayment service. Instead they can contact HMRC and providing they agree the calculation, request to receive their money by payable order. If they do not take any action, either through their Personal Tax Account or by contacting HMRC within 45 days, a payable order will be sent automatically. In the first two weeks of August HMRC will be testing how this works with a proportion of their customers who are owed a tax rebate. Then, providing everything is working as it should, from 22 August, HMRC will write to all those customers who have paid too much tax inviting them to use their PTA to get their rebate quicker.
Later this the year HMRC will be introducing an online payment service for those customers who haven’t paid enough tax through PAYE and will be taking a similar approach both with stakeholders and with customers.
Further updates on the PTA, the Business Tax Account, Making Tax Digital, and Agent Services will continue to be provided through regular briefings to professional bodies, stakeholders, Agent Update , agent emails and posts on the HMRC Tax Agent Blog.
Government Gateway Transition and Transformation 10 August 2016
HMRC’s Software Developers Support Team (SDST) has provided information which details changes to the Government Gateway service over the next two years. As part of this project they need software developers to please complete a short questionnaire. In summary, the changes are set out below but SDST has also provided a slide presentation which provides further information on the changes, the impacts on software developers and also actions required. Project RATE (Replication of APIs for Transaction Engine) - the main change affecting third-party applications will be a new domain name of the URL for the Transaction Engine end points secure.dev.gateway.gov.uk and secure.gateway.gov.uk. Project EMAC - to understand how many software developers provide applications that use the Government Gateway Public API, documented here , SDST need you to please complete a short questionnaire by 15 August (also detailed in the presentation). Project GG3 - the new Government Gateway service is expected to focus on credential management and authentication and will incorporate enhancements to security. SDST will provide further information on the outcome of Discovery and future engagement and involvement in September 2016.
For further information see the SDST slide presentation .
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