PAYE Accounts Office Reference number The employer’s PAYE Accounts Office Reference number is a unique, 13 character code displayed on the vast majority of communications received from HMRC. Accounts office reference numbers all have the same strict format: The three digit number of your tax office (e.g. 123) Two alpha characters (e.g. PA) Eight numeric…
DetailsDo you need to correct employee pay information for 2018-19? In the past, if you had a correction to make in the payroll for a previous tax year, HMRC required that you sent an ‘Earlier Year Update’ (EYU) to inform them of these changes. HMRC have now changed their rules, and allow the submission of…
Resubmitting the final EPS after sending YTDA-FPS On some occasions you may need to resubmit your final EPS for the year – e.g.. if you have made changes to your payroll that have affected parenting pay (SMP, SAP, SPP etc) and have then filed a YTDA-FPS to report hese changes to HMRC. The EPS allows…
DetailsMTD for VAT – problems and errors Since Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT was introduced in April 2019 many Money Manager 7 users have been successfully filing their VAT returns using the new system. We have a separate Making Tax Digital for VAT guide which shows you how to set up Money Manager and…
DetailsCopying a Money Manager data file from one computer to another 1. Making a backup copy of the data file from the first computer First ensure that you have the correct file open on the screen, then from the main menu in Money Manager, click ‘File‘ then ‘Utilities‘ then ‘Backup / Restore‘ and select the…
DetailsHow Tax Relief and the Earnings Contribution basis affect pension contributions If you wish to check that an employee is having the correct pension deduction made from their pay, it is important that you understand how tax relief and the earnings contribution basis affects these deductions. Tax relief: When using a Relief at Source (RAS) pension scheme,…
DetailsTaking on a payroll at the start of a new tax year This guide gives details of what you should do when taking over a payroll at the start of a tax year i.e. where the payroll has previously been processed by someone else /other software/another accountant etc in previous years, and you are processing…
DetailsYear to Date Amendment (YTDA-FPS) If you notice a mistake in your payroll after filing your final FPS for the year you can make the relevant changes in Payroll Manager and then submit a ‘Year-to-Date Amendment FPS’ (YTDA-FPS) to inform HMRC of these changes. This is a new facility that has been introduced for tax years…
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We have just published our year end guides for 2018-19 which take you through all of the necessary procedures (filing the last RTI for 2018-19, creating a new file, Auro Enrolment minimum pension increases etc). Please see Year End Summary 2018-19 for more details.
Filing the last RTI return for 2018-19 HMRC require that the last RTI return for 2018-19 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…