New queries, issue 4452

RTI model

Practical suggestions for easing the operation of RTI are requested.

I am the director of a small limited company. Historically no salary is taken and profits are extracted either in the form of dividends or as pension contributions. (IR35 is not in point.)

However the company has a “live” payroll (currently registered as an annual scheme) and I am finding the real time information (RTI) system unnecessarily taxing.

As the 2013/14 tax year came towards an end I logged on to HMRC’s online payroll system hoping to find something that looked like a P35. However I read that (for 2013/14 only) nil returns could not be made in-year so I was more than happy to wait until after 5 April.

Logging on again on 7 April still did not clarify matters so I called the helpdesk. I was advised that the company...