We were told by Sage that we had applied to join the Pilot on 6th December - the person who does the payroll wasn't in the office on that day and if they had and had clicked join the pilot I would have had an immediate call or they would have called the helpline as the screen was alien to them and they wouldn't have understood it.
I realised something was up when I couldn't print a P35 when doing the reconciliation and ended up having to use the PAYE basic tools to submit year end manually. After several calls to Sage and a couple to HMRC.
Grateful that its the last time will ever have to do that!
I've in the past pointed people to reasonably priced software since the HMRC tools don't do payslips and so on. Knowing there are some free products for micro businesses is very helpful.
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We were told by Sage that we had applied to join the Pilot on 6th December - the person who does the payroll wasn't in the office on that day and if they had and had clicked join the pilot I would have had an immediate call or they would have called the helpline as the screen was alien to them and they wouldn't have understood it.
I realised something was up when I couldn't print a P35 when doing the reconciliation and ended up having to use the PAYE basic tools to submit year end manually. After several calls to Sage and a couple to HMRC.
Grateful that its the last time will ever have to do that!
Very helpful information
I've in the past pointed people to reasonably priced software since the HMRC tools don't do payslips and so on. Knowing there are some free products for micro businesses is very helpful.
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