National Insurance Contributions (NICs) in 2023-24 In his Autumn Statement on 22 November 2023 the Chancellor announced that there would be a decrease in the rate of Employee National Insurance, from 12% to 10%, effective from 6 January 2024. A Payroll Manager software update will apply these changes automatically. This short guide is designed to…
Viewing XML files in Microsoft Edge When you choose to view the ‘xml – raw data’ of an RTI submission (as per the ‘Submission Log‘ guide for viewing RTI returns), your computer chooses an app to use to display these files. Typically your computer would choose a ‘browser’ app, such as Microsoft Edge or Internet…
Temporarily using Payroll Manager on a different computer This guide is designed to help if you normally use Payroll Manager on one computer, but temporarily need to operate the payroll on a different computer – e.g if you are away on holiday and wish to use your laptop to run the software. For the purpose…
We have recently made a small change to the way that the number of hours an employee works can be input on the ‘Pay Details’ screen in Payroll Manager. Previously e.g. if an employee worked 37 1/2 hours, then it was necessary to enter ‘37.5’ into the ‘Hours worked’ column. It is now possible to…
We have just published our guides to payroll year end 2022-23. These guides are designed to help you file your final RTI returns for 2022-23, produce P60s for your employees etc. There are also guides which show the Tax/NIC/Student Loan/SMP etc rates and thresholds for 2023-24, and also for creating a new payroll data file…
Year End Summary 2022-23 This guide has been designed to help you complete the necessary year end tasks for 2022-23 and move forward to start processing and reporting 2023-24 payroll information. It can be accessed at any time by clicking ‘Help – Online – End of Year Guide’ from the main menu in the Payroll…
Filing the last RTI return for 2022-23 HMRC require that the last RTI return for 2022-23 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…
New for 2023-24 There are a number of changes to the rules and rates that will affect payroll for 2023-24 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 HMRC Employer Bulletin (www.hmrc.gov.uk/payerti/forms-updates/employer-bulletin/index.htm )…
Creating A Data File For 2023-24 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 2022 to March 2023 would be contained in a file called ‘ABC Ltd 2022-23.pay’.…
Car benefits – Data Input & Calculation 2023-24 This guide explains how to enter details of company cars provided to employees during the tax year 2023-24 and shows how the benefit of such cars are calculated. If you are calculating benefits for a car provided in tax year 2024-25 then you should refer to our…