February Employer Bulletin published

The February 2022 edition of HMRC’s Employer Bulletin contains various articles covering issues such as the National Insurance holiday for veteran employees national minimum wage and national living wage rates and the health and social care National Insurance increase. There is also a reminder that the new release of the basic PAYE tools will no longer operate in a 32-bit environment so businesses will need to ensure their software can run 64-bit applications.

Extracts from other items follow.

Notices of coding

HMRC started issuing P9 notice of coding email notifications to employers on 7 February and expects to complete the process by 6 March.

Paper notices should arrive with employers on 21 March. If they do not receive the paper notices in time for the first pay period on or after 6 April 2022 the employer can request a duplicate by contacting the employer helpline on...