Employee Payment - HMRC Basic Tools

JEvans_2

Good Morning,

I currently use HMRC basic Tools to submit weekly employee Payments.  There is only 1 employee at the minute.

I have just submitted this weeks and realised I forgot to submit the previous weeks, I only pay minimum weekly amount (242) so no tax/NI, the rest is paid in dividends.

How to I submit the previous weeks! when I try it says date cant be in the past?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank You

Marcon

JEvans_2 said:

Good Morning,

I currently use HMRC basic Tools to submit weekly employee Payments.  There is only 1 employee at the minute.

I have just submitted this weeks and realised I forgot to submit the previous weeks, I only pay minimum weekly amount (242) so no tax/NI, the rest is paid in dividends.

How to I submit the previous weeks! when I try it says date cant be in the past?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank You

Are you the '1 employee' and are you a director of the company? If the answer to both of those is 'yes', then it should be simple enough to fix.

The payment date you enter must be later than the date on which you last recorded an employee as being 'paid', so that's your starting point in terms of the date to use. Failing all else, use today's date!

Add the total of all outstanding payments and enter that as the payment. Given that tax is cumulative, it should still show as no tax owing.

As you know, if you're a director, NI is calculated on the basis of annual earnings, not what you earn in each pay period - so that should be zero too. There is space on the 'Add employee payment' page to show the amount relating to NI:



You will also need to give a reason for the late submission (and if it's the first time you've filed late, there won't be any comeback other than possibly a standard message reminding you to do better next time):



Tick the box marked 'reasonable excuse', or leave blank.

You'd make your own life a lot simpler if you changed to monthly payments. Otherwise set a weekly reminder on your phone/computer if there's a reason why you have to stick to weekly - in practice HMRC aren't going to be too bothered so long as your report honestly and regularly.