Hi Toni Ive just answered this on the next post, but will just copy and paste the main part of response here, hope its useful:-
You cannot get payslips from HMRC Basic tools.
Indeed there are a few other issues:- The limitations to what the HMRCs Basic PAYE Tools can do are quoted from the HMRC website below:
HMRCs Basic PAYE Tools isnt a complete payroll package so it wont:
- produce payslips - record any other deductions unrelated to PAYE such as an attachment of earnings
It also may not handle certain scenarios:
- certain changes in directors NICs category letters during the tax year - you enter a leaving date for an employee and subsequently want either to change the leaving date or re-start the employment - an employee reaches the age of 16 and becomes liable for NICs but you can switch to category A mid-year if you have already set them up in the Employer Database with an X against their NICs category - you operate net pay arrangements
If any of these scenarios arise during the year and youre using HMRCs Basic PAYE Tools, youll need to start using a commercial payroll software package and transfer all your employer and employees details to it or change to using a payroll provider. So it might be worth looking at some of the cheaper offerings out there - Moneysoft or 12Pay are highly recommend by me and other users on this site. I seem to recall one or the other has a free offering but cant recall which!
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Joanne
Winner of Bookkeeper of the Year 2015, 2016 & 2017
Thoughts are my own/not to be regarded as official advice,which should be sought from a suitably qualified Accountant.
You should check out answers with reference to the legal position
I use Basics for four of my clients and it works really well - I just do the payslips on excel and they are adequate (a few employees have applied for mortgages and the payslips have been accepted). As mentioned by Joanne, it does have its limitations but I find it works just fine for the types of clients / employees that I have (ie nothing complex!).
