Pay count report The ‘Pay count report‘ displays the pay history of an employee over a specified period of time, and disregards any ‘blank’ pay periods from the totals. It can be useful if you wish to calculate the average pay of an employee over a specified period of time, and wish to disregard periods in…
Problem when trying to download PAYE Notices 31 October 2022 HMRC are currently having issues with their system for downloading PAYE notices. You may receive an error message when attempting to download these notices. This is an error with HMRC systems – please do NOT contact Moneysoft about this. Instead, either wait for HMRC to…
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…