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Micro-employers are struggling to comply with RTI.
KEY POINTS
- Businesses prioritise paying employees and HMRC before dealing with the reporting element.
- Confusion over deadlines for payment and reporting.
- Micro-employers lack understanding about HMRC’s penalty system for late submissions.
- HMRC’s information on RTI is not well understood or navigated.
Several issues emerged from research carried out on behalf of HMRC on how micro-employers are coping with real time information (RTI).
Chief among them was that as long as the correct PAYE and National Insurance was paid on time the need to report other information to HMRC fell down the list of priorities. That is unlikely to surprise anyone who does not work for HMRC. It probably does not surprise HMRC employees who work at the coalface – dealing with employers and general taxpayers. The only people to whom this lack...
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