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The rest of the straw

13 August 2013 / Rebecca Benneyworth
Categories: Comment & Analysis , Admin , Employees , Income Tax

Experiences of a practitioner and small business suffering under the weight of real-time information

KEY POINTS

  • Making an annual payment may not mean there is an annual PAYE scheme.
  • Penalties threatened before the regime starts.
  • There is a “bulk” EPS facility for multiple reports.
  • HMRC’s Basic PAYE Tools program does not allow multiple EPS reports to be made.
  • Payments are shown for months in which payment is made not for which they are due.
  • Is this experience being repeated on a large scale?

I read Mike Thexton’s article It’s only a straw with mounting interest. This is because I too have a small limited company payroll which or so I believed was an annual scheme. However I did persevere with HMRC and managed to speak to the person that Mike gave up with...

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