Mon, 8 Jul 2013

HMRC confirms number of RTI non-filers

Hundreds of thousands of companies that have failed to report Real Time Information (RTI) to HMRC have been contacted alerting them to their obligations.

The Revenue told Payroll World that 300,000 schemes had not made the switch to RTI by early June and as a result have been sent letters informing them of their legal requirement to have filed PAYE in real time from April 2013.

An HMRC spokesman said: “We know that the vast majority of these 300,000 schemes do not have any employees. It’s really important that employers tell us if they haven’t paid anyone in the tax month.

“This is easy to do. All the information they need is on our website at www.hmrc.gov.uk/actnow. If a scheme is no longer needed employers should contact us so we can close it on our records.”

According to the latest Revenue figures, nearly 1.5m schemes have now started reporting in real time with 1.9m schemes scheduled to be doing so by the end of this current tax year.

See also:

• NI numbers issued without suffixes
• Tax Freedom Day arrives today
• Thousands of Sage customers sent penalties after RTI blunder