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Payroll education visit!
We received a call this morning from the TES team who 'would like' to visit as part of this programme.
We employ @ 1,000 temporary seasonal agricultural workers for approximately 12 weeks for harvesting work. When they arrive they mostly do not have NINO's and we apply for these through the labour supplying agency. It is rare for a NINO to arrive before the employee leaves the farm, usually to return to Eastern Europe.
Consequently, we have a large number of P45/46 records submitted in the last 2 years with no NINO attached and this seems to have generated the visit request. (Note it was phrased as a request!)
We have good systems for obtaining as much information as possible from the employees on arrival and have always replied to requests for P45/46 information from HMRC as fully as we are able but the fact that the NINO issuing system cannot keep pace with our turnover is the root of the problem.
The tone of the phone call was very much - 'we need to tell you how to run your payroll' which is slightly galling when we have spent so much time and effort to attempt to work within the HMRC systems as far as possible. We are also already reporting under the RTI pilot scheme.
I am concerned about the amount of time that this visit, and any subsequent calls, will take up. Has anyone had experience of these visits yet?