I fear that the introduction of MTD will only increase the number and complexity of [***]-ups by HMRC.
I have enough of them under RTI for payroll.
The worst is that submitting under RTI, I have had pay paid to and reported for one of a client's employees credited to another and the other then received a tax demand for £2,200 plus interest on the wages paid to the colleague. In 2018/19 one of the employees in this foul-up left employment in early 2018 tax year when a P45 was prepared and sent, but has had child tax credit stopped because, according to HMRC they are still employed by that client. The other employee had a notice telling them that they have paid insufficient contributions to qualify for an NI credit despite working full time all year.
What makes it worse it that I was told that the problem had been sorted out when it reared its head at the end of 2016/17, but it was also in the present year. Even worse, HMRC want me to have authority from both employees to speak to them about their tax situations when the problem all the while lies in processing errors of the RTI submissions by HMRC.
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I fear that the introduction of MTD will only increase the number and complexity of [***]-ups by HMRC.
I have enough of them under RTI for payroll.
The worst is that submitting under RTI, I have had pay paid to and reported for one of a client's employees credited to another and the other then received a tax demand for £2,200 plus interest on the wages paid to the colleague. In 2018/19 one of the employees in this foul-up left employment in early 2018 tax year when a P45 was prepared and sent, but has had child tax credit stopped because, according to HMRC they are still employed by that client. The other employee had a notice telling them that they have paid insufficient contributions to qualify for an NI credit despite working full time all year.
What makes it worse it that I was told that the problem had been sorted out when it reared its head at the end of 2016/17, but it was also in the present year. Even worse, HMRC want me to have authority from both employees to speak to them about their tax situations when the problem all the while lies in processing errors of the RTI submissions by HMRC.