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The first complete tax year under real-time information (RTI) for the majority of employers worked well, with only one major problem, according to the taxman.
HMRC have been conducting weekly end-of-year teleconferences with employer representatives since 31 March, at the request of Payroll Alliance, the LexisNexis service.
The department says information for 2014/2014 flowed through to its systems as expected, with the only significant obstacle being the Government Gateway server crash on 11 April.
The first complete tax year under real-time information (RTI) for the majority of employers worked well, with only one major problem, according to the taxman.
HMRC have been conducting weekly end-of-year teleconferences with employer representatives since 31 March, at the request of Payroll Alliance, the LexisNexis service.
The department says information for 2014/2014 flowed through to its systems as expected, with the only significant obstacle being the Government Gateway server crash on 11 April.
The head of Payroll Alliance, Linda Pullan, noted Revenue statistics show that end-of-year records were generated for 1.82m PAYE schemes, 1.61m of which indicated the submission was a final report for 2013/14. The figure represents just over 88% of all end-of-year records.
Employers submitted their final report either by indicating it on the final full payment submission (FPS) or via the employer payment summary (EPS) by 19 April. The EPS was the only route allowed by payroll software for many.
The Revenue is concerned that the shortfall in final submissions is due to employers believing the deadline is 19 May (as for form P35 in previous years) rather than 19 April – although employers may have simply omitted to indicate on their payroll software that the submission was final.
Adjustments made after 19 April must use an earlier year update (EYU). HMRC received 52,563 of such submissions up to 30 April.
HMRC have confirmed they generated 61.8m individual records, which fell in line with the department’s expectations. The tax authority expects P800 tax demands to be sent out from around 27 May.
