I have taken over the payroll for a client that I was previosuly just doing their bookkeeping for and they used the HMRC Basic Tools to complete it weekly.
When they became an employer they took advantage of the Employers NIC payment holiday (one of the very few that I know who did).
I am transferring all of their payroll onto Sage 50 Payroll and I was wondering where is the option to suppress Er's NIC for the period of the holiday
As the P35 has to be submitted showing the NI contributions that would normally be payable, there isn't an option on Sage payroll to suppress the employer's NI. Instead, you'll need to identify the relevant employees and manually reduce the amount payable to HM Revenue & Customs by the appropriate amount.
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Pearce & Co - Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser
So I suppose Sage doesn't produce an E92 or E89's for use at PYE
Mark
In all fairness to Sage, HMRC hasn't produced any specification for software developers of how NIC Holiday is supposed to be implemented which makes this quite a dangerous feature for payroll software to offer, since arguably we'd be taking on liability if we misunderstood the (undefined) requirement.
All HMRC has said is that P11/P32/P35 should continue to be processed as if the holiday did not apply.
And I suppose that HMRC haven't given this to developers because there has been such a low take up on the NIC holiday that it would hardly be worth their while in doing the work in the first place
And I suppose that HMRC haven't given this to developers because there has been such a low take up on the NIC holiday that it would hardly be worth their while in doing the work in the first place
Mark
If only the reasons were that rational! For example the takeup of Additional Statutory Paternity Pay is vanishingly tiny, (very predictably) yet the specification for ASPP is nauseatingly detailed and arcane.
As far as I'm aware we've never had a single question from a user about ASPP (let alone ASPP (Adoption) which must have about 20 cases a year nationally and has an equally OTT specification)
