HMRC
In Hok to HMRC over P35 penalties? - 12 January 2012
If you have received penalties for late filing of P35's the following may be of interest. In the recent case of Hok Limited v HMRC a P35 penalty has been overturned on the basis that HMRC waited several months before issuing penalty notices. read the full details
No Payroll returns to make? Let HMRC know online - 01 March 2011
What if you have no returns to make this year?
If you are registered with HMRC for PAYE purposes they will expect you to make a return. If you had employees in previous tax years but this tax year, 2010-11, you had no employees, you need to notify HMRC that no return is required for 2010-11. If you don't, you will receive unnecessary reminders and possibly penalty notices.
read the full details
PAYE Investigations – Top tips for dealing with them - 12 November 2010
While full blown company investigations still seem thin on the ground 2010 has seen a steady increase in the number of businesses targeted for PAYE investigations. read the full details
A different knock on the door - 23 September 2010
In the age of austerity, even HMRC is cutting back. Having shed around 25,000 staff in the last six years, they plan to close 200 offices by 2011. But their pursuit of unpaid taxes not let up.
HMRC has now signed contracts with a number of debt collection agencies, who will receive a healthy commission on monies they recover from both individuals businesses. Be prepared for a different knock on the door!
Time to pay arrangements - 05 May 2010
You may have been one of the businesses that have struggled in the last 18 months with cashflow and taken advantage of HMRC’s time to pay arrangements. The Business Payment Support Service has dealt with requests to defer over £4billion in tax so far.
What HMRC haven’t managed to do is reflect those arrangements within the PAYE/NI underpayment notices issued over the last few weeks.
This means that you may well have had a demand for PAYE/NI which is already under an arrangement to pay with HMRC. read the full details
Latest HMRC email scam - 14 January 2010
Today has seen another round of scam emails from fraudsters purporting to be HMRC. If you receive an email like that feature below please delete it. HMRC are extremely security conscious and would under no circumstances email requesting details.
From: HM Revenue and Customs
Sent: 14 January 2010 10:47
To:
Subject: Notice of Underreported Income
Taxpayer ID: vacancies-00000110065038UK
Tax Type: INCOME TAX
Issue: Unreported/Underreported Income (Fraud Application)
read the full details
A to Z of expenses and benefits - 27 October 2009
HMRC have just updated and relaunched their extremely useful A to Z of Benefits on their website. This set of guidelines provides advice on the taxation and NI treatment of a wide range of expenses and benefits that employers are likely to come across.
Laid out in Plain English it also provides simple examples, calculation guides, links to related subjects and to the underlying legislation should you need it.
Well done HMRC.
Desktop Viewer (PDV) now available - 05 October 2009
We have been helping HMRC develop their PDV over the last few months and today sees it go live.
HMRC’s Data Provisioning Service (DPS) is the means by which HMRC sends PAYE notices and reminders to employers and payroll agents.
Employers and agents can log in to the PAYE for Employers services on HMRC’s website and read and download tax code notices, student loan notices and other employer notices but this is very time consuming for some users who have vast numbers of coding notices. read the full details
HMRC to the rescue - 01 August 2009
PAYE desktop viewer is finally here. Or rather the testing phase is here. As a member of the Working Together initiative with HMRC we have been invited into the testing phase for this new product.
It seems a long while since HMRC have managed to provide outsourcing providers with good news. The Payroll Desktop Viewer is a good step forward for payroll outsourcing providers. It will allow us to manage tax code notifications in a much more methodical manner and save a great deal of time accessing changes.
PDV promises features including; read the full details
One step forward two steps back - 18 July 2009
As you probably noticed from Stewart's blog yesterday it seems like HMRC have changed something in their software, probably something minor, but it potentially has a big impact on us.
The coding notices that have been issued this week all seem to have replaced the client name with our name.
Also coding notice changes that were previously collected electronically are now being delivered by post.
read the full details
