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HMRC Basic Tools (2012/13)
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
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HMRC have updated their version of the PAYE Basic Tools package which allows employers to run their payrolls and contains the following main features:
- An employer database on which employers can process their payroll. The latest version allows employers to complete processing for 2011/12 and start 2012/13 when it arrives
- P11 Calculator
- Online filing tool via the Government Gateway which allows the P45, P46, P14 and P35 to be sent
- P32 Payment Record card which, when used with the P11 calculator will calculate the payment due to HMRC
- Free calculators for SSP, SMP, OSPP, ASPP and SAP
- Interactive forms e.g. P11D and P11D Working Sheets
- Help information
The updated version can be downloaded using the below link.
Further Information
- HMRC – Basic PAYE Tools
Hugo Fair says:
February 20th, 2012
14:33
Although most of your audience will already know, I think that any articles (like the one above) on HMRC’s “Basic PAYE Tools” should make it clear that it can only be used for a maximum of 9 employees over the duration of a whole Tax Year (i.e. including any leavers).
Ian Holloway says:
February 20th, 2012
16:52
Hi Hugo,
Yes, thank you for this comment and I think it is certainly worth highlighting this limiting feature of ‘Tools’ in our next Newsletter.
Kind regards,
Ian
John Swanson says:
May 12th, 2012
11:43
It is a pretty poor piece of software with useless help assistance. Even the HMRC Help desk did not know the definition of current users, and that it included in year leavers as stated by Hugo. All they tell me is that it should work – as does the useless FAQs.
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Can I send more than 9 P14s online from the Basic PAYE Tools?
Yes, as long as you are using the P11 Calculator for up to and including 9 current employees at 5 April.
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Define current. Surely current employees means the ones that have not left within the tax year or is it just employees that have been shocked with an electric current?
No information on what to do if you put a leaving date in for the previous tax year and then the employee starts working again. Maybe that does not happen in the virtual world of HMRC.
You can add as a new emplyee with exactly the same data and then you get 2 entries for the same person. It is a mess
Hope they asked the software writer for their money back.
Brian Feldman says:
April 23rd, 2013
19:19
The new RTI version of Basic PAYE Tools for 2013/14 is quite simply not fit for purpose as it requires a more powerful processor (min 2.8 GHz) than can be found in the vast majority of computers currently in use. It won’t run on any computer in my business and I find that even my brand new core i-5 based machine with its 8 GB of RAM will still not be powerful enough.
Although the previous version was a bit limited and well, basic, at least it did actually work.