National Insurance rate changes from 6 November 2022 During 2022-23, the Government announced a number of changes which affect the amount of National Insurance contributions (NICs) paid by employees and employers. The latest changes take effect from 6 November 2022. Payroll Manager has been automatically updated to include these changes, and there is nothing that…
Scrapping of the Health and Social Care Levy The rate at which National Insurance Contributions (NICs) are deducted was increased by 1.25% in April 2022 to fund health and social care. The Government has announced that this will cease from 6 November 2022. The Chancellor, in his statement on 23 September 2022 also announced that…
Norton ‘Data Protector’ preventing files from updating Some Payroll Manager users have reported that their Norton Antivirus software has started to block Payroll Manager from saving data. You may only become aware of this when running your payroll and noticing that work that you had done previously (e.g. filing RTI returns, entering pay etc.)…
National Insurance Contributions (NICs) in 2022-23 In most tax years the ‘Primary Threshold (PT)’, the level of earnings at which an employee starts making National Insurance Contributions (NICs), remains the same throughout the year. The tax year 2022-23 is unusual in that the PT increases part way through the year (from 6 July 2022), affecting…
Payroll corrections and RTI returns If you discover an error in your payroll after the Full Payment Submission (FPS) has already been sent to HMRC (e.g. you entered an incorrect amount of pay or omitted the leaving date for an employee) , then in order to resolve this issue HMRC require that the next regular…
What to do if HMRC have the wrong figures If HMRC have the wrong figures for what the employer owes, or what an employee has earned, then there are three things to check: the data entered into Payroll Manager the data sent by Payroll Manager in the RTI returns the data held by HMRC In…
National Insurance categories and rates Employers use an employee’s National Insurance category letter when they run payroll to work out how much National Insurance they both need to contribute. Most employees are assigned NI category letter A. The NI letter is primarily determined by the age of the employee. Employees aged between 21 and State…
Freeports Employer NIC relief As part of the government’s work to ‘level up’ and boost economic activity, they aim to create a number of ‘Freeports’ to generate employment opportunities in some of the most deprived communities across the UK. One of the benefits to employers that operate within a Freeport location will be a reduction…
How to proceed after restoring or reverting to a previous copy of a payroll data file Sometimes you may need to go back to a previous, older copy of a payroll data file (e.g. if your file has become corrupted, or if your computer has broken down). This might be your own backup copy, or…
Submission Log Payroll Manager keeps a record of all RTI returns sent to HMRC and stores these in the ‘Submission Log‘. This log also contains a record of the ‘HMRC response‘ to each successful submission, which serves as proof that RTI returns have been accepted by HMRC. Each Payroll Manager data file has its own…