Morning all, I have finished payroll processing for a client for this tax year. Am I right in thinking that the final EPS can be sent before 5/4? I use moneysoft and the system flags that the report isnt due until after 5/4, but I think you can send earlier if needed, does anyone agree? Many thanks.
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I have already done a couple. However you need to go into the checklist and tick all the boxes as it does not prompt you to do this (re P11Ds etc).
Checklist?
I have already done a couple. However you need to go into the checklist and tick all the boxes as it does not prompt you to do this (re P11Ds etc).
The checklist - the old P35 questions - is no longer required by HMRC, but it can be submitted optionally. Whether HMRC takes any notice of it if you do, I have no idea. With Moneysoft, the default is not to submit, but you can if you wish. I believe that, last year, Sage was programmed to submit it without option, but perhaps they have updated it for this year.
Sage
Probably a bit of a late reply here. But Sage have updated their program this year and you no longer have the declaration. Last year they could not change their software to take the declaration out of the end of year. If HMRC had advised earlier than they did they may have been able to. But hey ho we a year further on and it all so simple a couple of clicks and it's done.
I think so...
I certainly sent all of mine last year before the end of March, so unless the rules have changed GFI!
guide
@levelheaded1903
It is fine to submit the EPS before 5/4
We have a guide on this (below)
http://www.moneysoft.co.uk/support/payroll-software/guide-year-end-filing-2015-16.htm
I don't disagree with any of the above, but, being pedantic, how can you be so sure, without a crystal ball, that you have in fact "finished payroll processing for a client for this tax year"?
The wonders of RTI
One of the wonders of RTI is that you can submit the year end as often as you want to. Got an FPS after year end? Submit the FPS, re-send the year end.
In fact you could run penalty free all year by [send FPS, send recovery EPS, send nil EPS's for the rest of the year, send year end] for every payroll you run.
No advantage
One of the wonders of RTI is that you can submit the year end as often as you want to. Got an FPS after year end? Submit the FPS, re-send the year end.
True - but what's the rush ?
Personally, I'll be waiting a couple of weeks. It's no more than an hour to submit an EPS for every client payroll I operate.
EOY (old P35 questions) - no P11D due
2015/16 is the first year where under RTI there is not a mandatory EOY question / answer list. One of the question/answer subjects that was on the list was re: Benefits in Kind. This begs the question "Should a separate declation that no BIK provded be made?".
The following HMRC News page artice of 7 March 2016 does suggest that a notification of no BIK is in fact required:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/paye-no-return-of-class-1a-na...
One of the links (the structured eMail for 2015/16 option) gets to a correctly headed web page ("2015/16") but the tax year is wrongly referred to twice on the webpage as year ended 5 April 2015.
I work on the basis that, if a P11D(b) reminder is sent, then I'll do the online notification of no BIK. If the reminder isn't sent, then I'll do nothing.