when to apply for a new paye ref - new ltd co.?

new company set up....

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we've set up a new ltd co (taken over an existing partnership, which will cease) as from 1st Jan 2018 we will be running a payroll for those staff transferring in. Its been awhile since I've applied for a new paye ref, on checking its says you can do it up to 2 months in advance - knowing it can take 1-2 weeks to get the ref no. & also activate the online account i thought I could get it sorted before our xmas shutdown.....

we went online and it asked for the first paydate, which we assume around the 25th Jan 2018 - we then had a warning saying there could be administrative problems if we applied more than 28 days in advance..?

anyone know what these problems might be - or any ideas what we're doing wrong. i really wanted to ge this on the go now so its all set up for when we start in the new year.......

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JCACE
By jcace
11th Dec 2017 16:03

I guess one of the potential problems could be that if the scheme is setup before 5 January, HMRC could expect an RTI submission for the month ending 5 Jan... If that's the case, you should be able to file a nil EPS for that period.

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RLI
By lionofludesch
11th Dec 2017 16:54

Surely your accountant will deal with this.

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By ohwhatnow
12th Dec 2017 14:49

unfortunately our accountant has less working knowledge of paye than me. jcace - thanks for that, but surely i wont have any employees added until pay period 10 (Jan 18) so wouldn't be able to file any FPS / EPS anyway?
is it actually possible to set up a paye scheme, get your reference, online enrolment activated and get a pension scheme setup in 3 weeks?

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By lionofludesch
12th Dec 2017 16:46

You don't need any employees to file an EPS.

One of the reasons for filing an EPS is that you have no employees.

Pension scheme is nothing to do with HMRC but I've set schemes up with NEST in days. The important thing is to deduct the contributions. There's a bit of slack allowed in paying them over.

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