HMRC Announcements

HMRC Online Service Availability Pages

Posted 11/06/08

Changes to the P45

In October 2008 HMRC will be introducing a ‘plain paper’ P45. From that date, if you submit online, you will be able to print the P45 parts1a-3 on plain A4
paper instead of using our pre-printed stationery. There will be no facility for any employer-specific designs of the forms.

You can use choose to use HMRC’s pre-printed form for some employees and the plain paper version for others. The decision whether to make the change is for you to decide.

From October 2008 HMRC will be updating the pre-printed paper P45 to include date of birth and gender fields.

Posted 06/05/08

PAYE In-year - Tuesday 6 May 22.00 - Wednesday 7 May 02.00

Due to essential maintenance you will get a delay in receiving your acceptance or rejection messages to your In-year and Expenses and Benefits submissions between 22.00 on Tuesday 6 May and 02.00 on Wednesday 7 May. This affects users of both HMRC Software and Third Party Software.

28/03/08

PAYE April Live Internet Service availability

PAYE customers live filing will be affected from the 3^rd April.

Complete EOY (End of year) submissions

Users of the HMRC portal will be unable to access the service for 48 hours between 06:00 on the 4th April and 06:00 on the 6th April. Third party customers will receive responses to their submissions and will be able to file their live submissions as normal during this period. The only exception to this will be an eight hour period between 12:00 and 20:00 on the 5th of April. During this period, third party users will still be able to send their Return, but they will not get a response until the the eight hours are over. (If traffic is high during this period there might be an additional delay in responding until the backlog has cleared.) Anyone who chooses to file during this period must not attempt to re-submit their Return because they did not get an rejection or acceptance message.

EOY (End of Year) submissions sent in parts

From 6^th April there will be changes to the way acceptance and rejection messages are sent to customers who send P14s and their P35 separately. As a result your customers will not receive a response to their live P35 part return for EOY filing for up to 2 weeks although a small proportion of these submissions will be pushed through during a controlled go live. Please refer to email advice issued 11/02/08 and 21/02/08 to developers who cater for End of Year part Return submissions and previous editions of Notes for Software Developers. Response messages for P14 parts will continue to be sent immediately.

Expenses and Benefits (EXB) submissions

New information

From 14:00 3^rd April 2008 the message class for EXB submissions will be suspended. The live EXB service resumes on the 6^th April 2008 at 06:00 and will accept submissions based on the new validations

For MOV (In Year Movements ) submissions

From 2pm3^rd April 2008 the message class for In Year Movements (MOV) submissions are to be suspended. From 3^rd April, anyone attempting to make a submission will receive a (1046) Authentication Failure message from the Government Gateway. on the 9^th April 2008 the live MOV service resumes at 9am, to accept submissions based on the 2008/09 validations.

Any customers needing to make an online submission during this period, should wait until 9^th April, when the service resumes, or make a paper submission. Your customers should continue to provide a P45, parts 1a to 3, to employees who have left employment even if the P45, part 1 cannot be submitted online.

Data Provisioning Service (DPS)

The DPS Service will be unavailable for the retrieval of all outgoing forms to any user during the 48 hour period between 06:00 4^th April and 06:00 6^th April.

Regards

HM Revenue & Customs

17/01/08

Subject: Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) Live Service availability

Dear Customer

This is early notification to advise you that due to the HMRC annual upgrade, submissions to the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) live service will experience delayed response to their submission from 06:00 4th April until 06:00 6th April 2008.

More information on the annual upgrade will be published on the Live service availability web pages nearer the time.

Subject: Submissions to the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) live service availability

This is early notification to advise you that due to the HMRC annual upgrade, user submissions to the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) live service will experience delayed response to their submission from 06:00 4 April until 06:00 6 April 2008.

The backlog of messages could impact on the message response time. The upgrade will also prevent users from downloading code numbers and notices.

We apologise for any inconvenience this might have caused.

Regards

HM Revenue & Customs

Note
These messages are recieved from HMRC and can be found at;
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/online/index.htm