Starting at the beginning of a tax year This guide gives details of what you should do when starting to use Payroll Manager to process payroll for a company at the beginning of a tax year i.e. where the payroll for previous tax years has been processed either by someone else or using other software.…
Car benefits – Data Input & Calculation 2026-27 This guide explains how to enter details of company cars provided to employees during the tax year 2026-27 and shows how the benefit of such cars are calculated. If you are calculating benefits for a car provided in tax year 2025-26 then you should refer to our…
Year End Summary 2025-26 We have designed this ‘Year End Summary‘ guide to help you complete the necessary year end tasks for 2025-26 and move forward to start processing and reporting 2026-27 payroll information. You can click ‘Help – Online – End of Year Guide’ from the main menu in Payroll Manager to access this…
Filing the last RTI return for 2025-26 HMRC require that the last RTI return for 2025-26 is marked as being the ‘Final Submission for Year’ (which Payroll Manager will automatically do for you via an EPS return). At year end you should file your FPS as usual on or before the final pay date of…
Creating A Data File For 2026-27 Payroll Manager stores the payroll information for each tax year in a separate data file on your computer. For example, if your company is called ‘ABC Ltd’, then your payroll information for the period April 2025 to March 2026 would be contained in a file called ‘ABC Ltd 2025-26.pay’.…
New for 2026-27 There are a number of changes to the rules and rates that will affect payroll for 2026-27 and this guide provides details of some of them. Payroll Manager is automatically updated to include each of these changes. We would recommend that you read the latest editions of the HMRC Employer Bulletin (www.hmrc.gov.uk/payerti/forms-updates/employer-bulletin/index.htm…
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) from 6 April 2026 Note: This guide applies to the payment of Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) from 6 April 2026 onwards. If you are processing SSP for the tax year 2025-26 then please refer to the Guide to SSP before 6 April 2026 instead. Introduction The Employment Rights Act (2025) introduced…
SSP examples from 6 April 2026 From 6 April 2026, the Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) rules change (as per the Employment Rights Act 2025). The changes are as follows: SSP will be payable from day one. Previously, employees must wait for three unpaid “waiting days” before SSP is paid. From 6 April 2026 waiting days…
Outstanding CIS 300 submissions Normally HMRC respond to submissions almost immediately. However, sometimes HMRC have technical issues and the responses are delayed, and sometimes they lose the submission altogether and will never respond to it. If you have submitted returns and have not received a timely response then we would recommend you wait and try…
Access violation when running Payroll Manager June 2025 We have had a small number of users reporting that they are getting an ‘Access Violation‘ error message when attempting to run Payroll Manager. If you are experiencing this problem then please download the latest update of Payroll Manager from our website: Go to the ‘Downloads‘ page…
