I have taken over the bookkeeping of a business that runs 2 payroll schemes. They have received coding notices for both scheme splitting the employees allowances but they have ignored these. Everyone is on a tax code of 747L on one scheme and BR on the other. Is this acceptable or should we be using the codes the revenue have requested? Any help with this would be appreciated
Hi Liz, its not a choice, you're supposed to use the tax code notices. Pretty certain I've never been pulled up on it though.
I've got an unrelated tip. One time, the then NIC office wanted to inspect a particularly small employer. I thought, i'm a bit fed up of losing an hour or an afternoon, so I wrote back giving about 4 or 5 other schemes they were welcome to check. They did so, all in an afternoon, and I've hardly had a PAYE inspection since. Not sure if they don't bother any more or if I got good marks for compliance.
