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RTI Electronic Exchange (ElEx) User Guide & Data Items V16.0 Page 1
RTI Electronic Exchange (ElEx) User Guide & Data Items
Version 16.0 – February 2016
P Simon Parsons MSc FCIPPDip MBCS
Ian Brennan MSc FCIPPdip
Steven McKenna MCIPPdip
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Information
This guide relates to the live operation of RTI (HM Revenue and Customs Real Time Information) for the 2016/2017 tax year onwards and the Ceridian Pay
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www.ceridian.co.uk/rti/resources
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Table of Contents
What does the Ceridian RTI ElEx service do?...........................................................................................................................................................................6
Clean Data and Data Improvement.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Changes to employee name and address ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
The on or before principle ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Late PAYE Reporting Reason & Date (RTI field 154) ........................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Share related income ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Payroll ID and RTI ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
No National Insurance number (NINO)! ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 11
I have employees who are not to be reported on HMRC RTI ........................................................................................................................................................ 11
Transferring an Employee from one payroll to another (same PAYE ref) ..................................................................................................................................... 11
Additional information and RTI ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
BACS – Hash and the Random number .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Taking on a new employee ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
RTI and form P45 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 14
Using the right tax code for new employees and completing the starter declaration ................................................................................................................. 14
HMRC Starter Checklist .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 17
Student Loans ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19
When is starter information sent to HMRC? ................................................................................................................................................................................. 19
Retirement and Pensions ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
You won't be paying the employee a pension ............................................................................................................................................................................... 20
You will be paying the employee a pension................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
A new pensioner ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 21
Pensioner gives you a form P45 late .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 21
New pension to deceased employee's dependant ........................................................................................................................................................................ 21
If a pension recipient dies .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 21
If the pension passes to a body other than an individual .............................................................................................................................................................. 22
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Pensions – Trivial Commutation & Special Situations ................................................................................................................................................................... 22
Flexibly Accessing Pension Rights .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 23
Foreign Employees ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
Right to Work – Eligibility to work in the UK .................................................................................................................................................................................. 24
The General Rule ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 24
PAYE tax exceptions (foreign employees) ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
Using the right tax code for a seconded employee ....................................................................................................................................................................... 26
Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) & RTI ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 27
Leavers ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 28
Payments after leaving (PAL) ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 28
Death .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 29
PAYE & One-Off payments (including redundancy) ....................................................................................................................................................................... 30
Errors and Corrections .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 31
Employee's personal details have changed ................................................................................................................................................................................... 31
Employee start date is wrong ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 31
Employee leaving date is wrong .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 31
Electronic messages sent by HMRC to employers ................................................................................................................................................................. 32
Will the employer still receive paper notifications? ...................................................................................................................................................................... 32
How do I know what messages have been applied to the payroll? .............................................................................................................................................. 32
What happens with P6s and P9s where the tax codes may change within a couple of weeks of being issued, they would normally take the latest one but how would this work in the electronic system? ............................................................................................................................................................................ 32
The NINO is different. What’s happened? ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
I would like my bulk annual P9s/P6(b)s to be sent through electronically, what is the latest date by which this can be requested? ........................................ 33
HMRC notification in relation to National Insurance Numbers (NINO) ......................................................................................................................................... 33
HMRC Misbalance / Penalty letter / Interest charges ................................................................................................................................................................... 34
Ceridian Data Items and HMRC RTI data requirements ......................................................................................................................................................... 35
E012 Passport Number (RTI field 12) ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 35
E013 Irregular Employment Payment Pattern Indicator (RTI field 40a) ........................................................................................................................................ 35
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E014 Number of normal hours worked (E058 / E059) (RTI field 54) ............................................................................................................................................. 36
E015 Late PAYE Reporting Reason & Date (RTI field 154) ............................................................................................................................................................. 36
M780 Partners Surname or Family name entered on the ShPP claim (RTI field 74) ..................................................................................................................... 37
M781 Partners Forename or Given name entered on the ShPP claim (RTI field 75, 76) .............................................................................................................. 37
M782 Partners Second Forename entered on the ShPP claim (RTI field 76, 77) ......................................................................................................................... 38
M783 Partners NINO entered on the ShPP claim (RTI field 78) ..................................................................................................................................................... 38
T170 Payment to a non-individual (RTI field 147) ......................................................................................................................................................................... 38
T171 Trivial Commutation Type (Pensions) (RTI field 146) ............................................................................................................................................................ 38
T172 Trivial Commutation Amount (Pensions) (RTI field 148) ...................................................................................................................................................... 39
T173 Value of benefits taxed via payroll - year to date (RTI field 149) ......................................................................................................................................... 39
T174 On Strike (RTI field 152) ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 40
T175 Unpaid Absence (RTI field 153) ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 40
T176 Old Payroll ID for this employment (RTI field 39 & 40) ......................................................................................................................................................... 40
T177 Flexibly accessing pension rights........................................................................................................................................................................................... 41
T178 Pension Death Benefits Indicator .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 41
T179 Flexible drawdown taxable payment .................................................................................................................................................................................... 42
T180 Flexible drawdown non-taxable payment ............................................................................................................................................................................ 42
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What does the Ceridian RTI ElEx service do?
All employers who operate PAYE are obligated to report data to HM Revenue & Customs under Real Time information. Employers may choose to undertake
their own filing with HMRC directly or utilise the service offered via Ceridian ElEx.
Each time you pay an employee via Ceridian payroll it will send information to HMRC relating to:
Deductions, Income Tax and National Insurance and other Statutory Payments
Starter information (such as start date and starter declaration along with P45 details where applicable)
Leaver information
Flexible drawdown of pensions
Payments after leaving information
Adjustment and correction data as a result of payroll change updates
Employers potentially need to include the details of all employees, including those who earn below the NICs Lower Earnings Limit (LEL).
Employers are required to provide employees employed on 5th April each year a P60 or eP60 if they have been subject to PAYE.
Employers are required to pay to HMRC Collector of Taxes amounts owing and to send a new associated report Employer Payment Summary (EPS) to enable
the recovery and compensation of Statutory Payments and also claim the new Employment Allowance. HMRC systems are not yet able to automatically
calculate the offset amounts due to employers. If the payment due matches the detail on the Full Payment Submission (FPS) created from payroll there is no
need to send an EPS.
Clean Data and Data Improvement
Providing HMRC with accurate employee and pensioner information helps ensure the right amount of tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs). It also
protects entitlements to certain state benefits and State Pension. Accurate data saves time - you will receive fewer enquiries from HMRC and
employees/pensioners.
Information entered on payroll feeds into the RTI you send to HMRC systems. If you have the wrong information it will result in the wrong data being applied
resulting in wrong information coming out - ‘Rubbish In, Rubbish Out’.
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Changes to employee name and address
Employees may notify their employer of changes of name (due to marriage, divorce or other
reasons), also changes of address (due to house move). It is appropriate to apply these changes to
payroll and pension records.
Although the employer may be using new details, HMRC will ignore any new data changes notified
by the employer alone. Employee or pension recipients must contact HMRC and notify them of
such changes separately. The preferred method is to use the HMRC address change email
template at https://online.hmrc.gov.uk/shortforms/form/PAYENICoC
If you routinely provide advice or assistance to your employees as to how to notify their changes
of address or other personal details to HMRC, please ask them to use this on-line facility. It is in
their interests to keep HMRC up-to-date with changes. Each year repayments are returned to
HMRC undelivered because they do not hold up-to-date information.
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The on or before principle
RTI information must be reported on or before payments are made to the employee except in
the following circumstances:
Ad hoc payment made outside of the standard payroll cycle – such as a late starter,
correction of payroll error (missed overtime etc.)
Payments to individuals where a P11 is not required: temporary casual staff working for
less than one week or a permanent employee who earns less than the LEL
Payments which vary according to work done on the day – given to the employee on the
day of work through non-electronic methods of payment; such as crop pickers or
hospitality staff for one-off events
Items which are not subject to Tax but are subject to Class 1 NICs
Notional payments – such as shares
Earnings and Notional payment operated overseas
Specific guidance can be found at https://www.gov.uk/running-payroll/fps-after-payday
Ceridian RTI ElEx service reports information to HMRC following a live, committed or closed
payroll process. Mid period changes and adjustments and share options are reported on the
next regular submission in accordance with HMRC requirements for reporting revised year to
date values along with information on the normal regular payments.
Where items are being reported late there is a requirement to provide a Late PAYE Reporting
Reason.
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Late PAYE Reporting Reason & Date (RTI field 154)
An entry is only required if the employee is to be reported with a Late PAYE Reporting Reason for activity that relates to a reported payment date that has
passed (or will pass) at the point of the Full Payment Submission (FPS).
The reason and date is only reported on the FPS where the payment type is not ‘T’ for credit Transfer or where the Net Payment this time is zero. Where the
payment type is ‘T’ and there is a payment this period, then no reason is reported and the current standard payment date is reported.
Maximum length 1 character followed by ‘/’ and an override this time payment date
Valid characters - A, B, C, D, E, F, G or H (space to remove)
Where:
A = Notional payment: Payment to Expat by third party or overseas employer
B = Notional payment: Employment related security
C = Notional payment: Other
D = Payment subject to Class 1 NICs but P11D/P9D for tax
E = NO LONGER USED – RESERVED FOR FUTURE HMRC USE
F = No working sheet required; Impractical to report.
G = Reasonable excuse
H = Correction to earlier submission
Followed by an override reporting payment date in the format /DDMMYYYY
In some circumstances of making corrections where there is no payment this time, HMRC guidance asks for employers to report the last payment date. This
would ordinarily generate a late reporting fine unless the employer also notifies a later reporting reason. Ceridian as a default reports the current period
payment date even when there is no payment being made. The last payment date can be entered along with the later reporting reason.
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Share related income
The taxation position on shares and share options has been a challenge for many years. The HMRC expectation was that tax and NICs would be accounted for
at the point shares were available or vested by the employee, the reality is that neither the settlement of monies nor the employer awareness of the
transaction taking place was ever a reality.
With the onset of RTI, HMRC have outlined their position on reporting requirements for Shares:
"Employment income paid in respect of employment-related securities (for example, on the exercise of share options). Where the employer is operating
reasonable and currently accepted payroll/administrative practices and it is not possible to operate PAYE and/or calculate NICs to be deducted by the PAYE
deadline, HMRC indicate that they will apply a common sense approach in-year where employers in these situations have a reasonable excuse for not
reporting the information by the end of the pay period or 19th of the following month. HMRC now expect that the late reporting would normally be no later
than the next regular payroll date".
Where the payment date is to be set in the past, then the late reporting reason B (Notional Payment – Employee related Security) is to be entered against
data item E015 along with the payment date to be reported.
Payroll ID and RTI
Ceridian use the RTI Payroll ID to identify an employee in interchanges with HMRC and the following format is used:
“CPcccccceeeeeee”
Where:
“CP” identifies Ceridian Payroll as the payroll engine
“cccccc” is the Ceridian Payroll number (leading zeroes will be present)
“eeeeeee” is the Ceridian Payroll 7 digit employee number (leading zeroes will be present)
Any RTI submission which relates to an individual employment will contain this Payroll ID. Equally HMRC messages sent back to the employer will also
contain this Payroll ID.
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No National Insurance number (NINO)!
If the employer is not provided with a National Insurance number then they are expected to ask the employee for further information such as an old pay-slip
or form P60. If there is no document available then NINO verification will be requested when the regular RTI submission is made.
Never make up a NINO, use temporary numbers or use defaults, if the correct number is not available but appropriate evidence is provided of entitlement to
work in the UK, then leave the NINO field either blank or use your suppliers appropriate nil value such as “NONE” or other appropriate alternative.
I have employees who are not to be reported on HMRC RTI
If you have any individual on the payroll who is not subject to PAYE and therefore not reportable to HMRC via RTI, you may exclude them from reporting by
setting Data Item T010 (Tax Basis) to the value ‘X’ for exclude. This should not be confused with the Week 1 / Month 1 basis which is indicated as a value ‘1’
on Ceridian systems.
Types of individuals or payments you would not report are:
Payments to self-employed individuals or corporate institutions that are not subject to PAYE reporting
Overseas employees not subject to PAYE reporting
Transferring an Employee from one payroll to another (same PAYE ref)
It is important that Ceridian understand when details are to be sent to HMRC and for what purpose.
When an employee is currently being reported to HMRC on RTI but is being transferred from one payroll to another (whether from one Ceridian payroll or
external payroll to another Ceridian payroll but within the same PAYE scheme), there is a requirement to prevent inappropriate starter and leaver elements of
RTI being submitted to HMRC and equally the transfer of certain new values in addition to the standard payroll transfer values.
N.B. Failure to operate transfers correctly will often result in duplicate record creation on HMRC systems which leads to misbalances and also secondary
employment tax codes being issued to employees.
To suppress the leaver segment of the RTI message being sent to HMRC use data item E110 with a value of ‘#’ and do not populate a leaver date. In the
subsequent period set the Tax Basis to exclude by setting data item T010 to X.
To suppress the starter segment of the RTI message being sent to HMRC use the data item E105 with a value of ‘#’.
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Also when setting up a transfer employee the following items are important:
T173 Value of benefits taxed via payroll - year to date (if applicable)
T176 Old Payroll ID for this employment – the payroll ID used on the former payroll – required for all payroll transfer cases
If the PAYE Scheme is different then it is not a transfer, but a leaver and starter which requires reporting to HMRC. The earnings histories would generally not
be transferred from the old PAYE scheme to the new and the Old Payroll ID is irrelevant as this is a new employment instance.
Additional information and RTI
With RTI employers are required to collect and provide payroll with additional information:
Passport Number (data item E012) – for any new employee who has provided a passport as part
of the Right to Work evidence
Hours Worked (data items E058, E059 or E014): Information is needed on how many hours an
employee normally works in a week (the contract hours). This aids with the assessment of
Working Tax Credits
Payroll and RTI now additionally allow the reporting of the following:
Lower paid, temporary, irregular and casual staff: Employers must now report payments to all
staff no matter how much they are paid. If appropriate the employer may set the ‘irregular
payment indicator’ (data item E013) so HMRC does not assume that they have left employment.
Change to employee working patterns: Employers may also need to provide information in certain circumstances, for example, if an employee takes
unpaid leave, then set the irregular payment indicator (data item E013) or else HMRC may assume that they have left employment (after 13 weeks).
Payment to a non-individual (data item T170)
On-Strike (data item T174) – when an employee has taken industrial action within the period being paid
Unpaid absence (data item T175) – Do not use
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BACS – Hash and the Random number
Where an employee is identified as being paid via BACS Credit Transfer (payment method ‘T’), Ceridian will populate the appropriate RTI random number in
the BACS submission via the Ceridian BACS Bureau service and will also report the HASH formula value on the RTI submission to HMRC.
The Hash and Random number do not apply to non-Credit Transfer payments and are not generated for any other payment method. Employers may need to
review their payments process where they indicate an alternate payment method in the payroll but actually do make BACS payments outside of the Ceridian
payroll service.
The Hash is calculated by utilising elements of the employer and employee bank account details along with the Net Payment and the payroll generated
Random Number reported on the BACS file. All the elements must be present in the payroll process to generate the Hash.
Use of the Credit Amendment functionality in changing any of the bank account details or payments will impact the Hash value calculated by Vocalink and
passed to HMRC and will result in the Hash not matching that provided on the Ceridian RTI submission as there has been an external change.
N,B, There is no legal requirement to pay employees via BACS Credit Transfer, only a requirement to provide the random number and hash where they are.
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Taking on a new employee
Starters are no longer reported to HMRC separately through the use of P45, P46, P46(PEN) or P46(EXPAT) as these now form part of the regular Ceridian RTI
submission.
Employers must implement appropriate business processes ready to collect and record the correct personal information when an employee or pensioner
starts, HMRC will not accept later changes in subsequent RTI submissions.
When you take on a new employee and prior to their first payment, they must either provide you with an ‘In date P45’ (for tax year 2016-2017 this is one
issued since 6th April 2015), or you must get specific information from them and report it to HMRC the first time you pay your new employee.
RTI and form P45
Employers need the following details from form P45 received for a new employee and added to the payroll. This will result in the information being
appropriately reported to HMRC via RTI when the employee is paid:
full name
National Insurance number
Previous employment leaving date
tax code (including week 1/month 1, if appropriate)
total pay and tax paid to date for the current tax year
student loan deduction status (you must then ask the employee for the Student Loan Plan Type – 1 or 2)
Using the right tax code for new employees and completing the starter declaration
For the 2016/2017 tax year, the tax code you need to use depends on when they left their previous employer and their starting date with you.
When you enter a start date for a new employee you (the employer) must also complete a starter statement A, B or C (data item T330)
The following tables (applicable for the 2016/2017 tax year) explain what action you need to take:
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In date P45 received – no starter checklist required
Date of leaving on P45 (Data Item E086)
Start date (data item E081)
Tax code on P45 (Data Item T320 & T325)
Starter Declaration declared by employee
Starter Declaration to be reported on FPS (Data Item T330)
Tax code to use (Data Item T000 & T010)
6 April 2016 to 5 April 2017 (16/17)
On or after 6 April 2016
Code other than BR, 0T or D prefix whether an S prefix tax regime is present or not
Not needed B (to be declared by the employer)
Use the tax code on the P45 (including any S prefix tax regime if present)
6 April 2015 to 5 April 2016 (15/16)
6 April 2016 to 24 May 2016
Code other than BR, 0T or D prefix
Not needed B (to be declared by the employer)
Use the tax code on the P45 and add budget increase +40 to any code ending in L, +36 for N or +44 for M - for example 1060L – 1100L (but do not carry forward any week1 / month 1 markings from the P45)+
6 April 2015 to 5 April 2016 (15/16)
On or after 25 May 2016
Code other than BR, 0T or D prefix
Not needed B (to be declared by the employer)
Emergency code 1100L on a week 1/month 1 basis
Any of above Any of above If tax code on P45 is:
BR / SBR
0T / S0T
D0 / SD0
D1 / SD1
Not needed C (to be declared by the employer)
Use the tax code on the P45
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No P45 received or the P45 has a leave date before 6th April 2015 – Employer must obtain a starter checklist declaration
- Employer reports the starter statement the employee has given
Employee's date of leaving on P45
Employee's start date with you
Tax code on P45 Starter Declaration declared by employee
Starter
Declaration to be reported on FPS (Data Item T330)
Tax code to use (Data Item T000 & T010)
No P45 or P45 dated prior to 6 April 2015
On or after 6 April 2016
Not to be used A A 1100L
B B 1100L on a week 1/month 1 basis
C C BR
None C (to be declared by the employer)
0T on a week 1/month 1 basis
P45 received after first payment
If the student loan indicator is shown on the P45 you request completion of the new starter checklist and ask the student loan plan type questions. You must
deduct student loan repayments, unless you've been told by HMRC to stop, from the date the employee started with you. If the employee does not know the
student loan plan type, then deduct using plan type 1.
If you have received a tax code from HMRC for this employee
Continue to use the tax code, and any previous pay and tax information, supplied by HMRC. Do not use the tax code from the P45.
If you have not received a tax code from HMRC for this employee
If the figures on the P45 (if dated after 6 April 2016) are incorrect, you should use the corrected figures
Decide which tax code to use as detailed above
Adjust the employee's entries for the week you started to show the total pay and tax and tax to date from the P45 (if dated after 6 April 2016) - or the
correct figures if those on the P45 are incorrect
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Starter declaration received after first payment
Add any personal details and store the information
If you have not received a tax code from HMRC operate the code that relates to declaration A, B or C (refer to table above)
If you have received a tax code from HMRC, continue to use it.
HMRC Starter Checklist
Please note that under RTI the new HMRC Starter Checklist replaces the former use of the P46 or P46(Short)
and in accordance with the information above, is required for completion even when a P45 is presentedwhen
an employee presents an ‘out of date’ P45.
Employers are permitted to create or use their own version of the form or incorporate the starter checklist
questions into employer created induction or new starter documents.
The example or template starter checklist can be downloaded at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/paye-starter-checklist
Please note that it is possible to print blank copies of the forms or employers may email the form for
completion by their employees as necessary.
Employers must ask these new employees to confirm whether:
A – This is their first job since last 6th April and they have not been receiving taxable Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance,
taxable Incapacity Benefit, state pension or occupational pension
B – This is their only job, but since last 6th April they have had another job, or have received taxable Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support
Allowance or taxable incapacity Benefit. They do not receive state or occupational pension
C – They have another job or receive a state or occupational pension
New starter information must be retained by the employer for two years.
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Starter Checklist – no statement ticked or the employee has not provided a Starter Checklist or a P45(3)
HMRC rules ask that you give the employee a Starter Checklist for completion asking them to tick the relevant box and sign the form. If they have not then the
following entries should be made:
Tax Code T000 0T (0T is the only valid code, not BR or D0)
Tax Basis T010 1 (non-cumulative basis only)
Statement T330 C
If they have ticked a statement and signed the form then the following action should be taken according to the selected statement.
Starter Checklist – statement A
Tax Code T000 1100L (based on tax year 2016/2017)
Tax Basis T010 0 (cumulative basis)
Statement T330 A
Starter Checklist – statement B
Tax Code “T000 1100L” (based on tax year 2016/2017)
Tax Basis “T010 1” (week 1 / month 1 non-cumulative basis)
Statement “T330 B”
Starter Checklist – statement C
Tax Code “T000 BR” (BR is the only valid code, not 0T or D0)
Tax Basis “T010 0” (cumulative basis only)
Statement “T330 C”
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Student Loans
Employers must ask their new employee to confirm if they have left a course of UK Higher Education before last 6 April and received their first student loan
instalment on or after 1st September 1998.. If they have, then they must also find out if they have not fully repaid their student loan.
If the new employee responds “Yes” and indicates a plan type (1 [L1] or 2 [L2]) to the student loan question, the employer commences making student loan
deductions using the appropriate plan type. If the plan type is not known then they must use plan type 1 [L1] until notified otherwise.
When is starter information sent to HMRC?
Starter information may be applied to your payroll at any time. However, the information is not sent to HMRC until the employee is due to receive their first
payment (as required by HMRC).
It is important to remember:
Include all relevant information from the employee’s P45
Only include pay and tax figures from the former employment if they are relevant
Include your employee’s employment situation – statement A, B or C - the first time they are paid
HMRC systems use the address associated with new employees so it is important that you provide a full and valid address especially as this can impact
on whether they are considered a Scottish Tax payer
If you re-employ a former employee in the same tax year, they must have a separate PAYE record and RTI Payroll ID – you must not re-use the same
Ceridian payroll number for multiple employment instances
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Retirement and Pensions
Pension and annuity payments are treated as income and treated in a similar way to earnings - if the pension scheme is registered with HMRC then there is
no NIC deduction. Pension payments must be put through payroll although they are not the same as standard wages or salary payments to employees.
You won't be paying the employee a pension
If an employee retires and the employer is not paying them a pension in the same PAYE scheme, then the leaving details form part of the RTI submission.
You will be paying the employee a pension
(a) Pension payments to employees not continuing in employment
Continue paying them using the existing payment information but with some changes:
‘Yes’ on the occupational pension indicator (Data Item E105 with value ‘P’).
the date the pension started (Data Item E079)
amount of annual occupational pension (this is derived from Allowance 001 – basic pay)
tax code - unless you're told to use a new tax code by HMRC, continue to use the same tax code you were using for the individual's employment
income, but on a week 1/month 1 basis
don't deduct any further Class 1 NICs (set to NIC Category ‘X’)
(b) Pension payments to employees continuing in your employment
The employer must setup a separate record for the pension and use tax code 0T on a week 1/month 1 basis on the employee's pension payment and
continue to use the same code as before on the employment income.
Set the Occupational Pension indicator (Data Item E105 with the value ‘P’).
You must include with the first pension payment:
the date the pension started (Data Item E081)
the annual amount of the occupational pension – Derived from the allowance 001 permanent amount
tax code (Data Items T000 & T010) - unless you're told to use a new tax code by HMRC, use code 0T on a week 1/month 1 basis
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A new pensioner
Set up the pension recipient's personal information in their payroll record
Set the Occupational Pension indicator (Data Item E105 with the value ‘P’). This value is automatically set on a pension payroll.
You must include with the first pension payment:
the date the pension started (Data Item E081)
the annual amount of the occupational pension – Derived from the allowance 001 permanent amount
If they have a P45 Leaver Statement - the tax code from the P45 on a week 1/month 1 basis else if they do not have a P45 Leaver Statement use the
emergency tax code (1000L for 2014/2015) on a week 1/month 1 basis
Pensioner gives you a form P45 late
If the pension recipient gives you a P45 after you've started paying their pension and HMRC has already provided you with a new tax code then you must
destroy the P45.
If you have not received a new tax code from HMRC then follow the guidance that applies to employees who provide a P45 late.
New pension to deceased employee's dependant
If the pension payment is to a dependant of a deceased employee, follow the steps outlined in the earlier section, 'A new pensioner’ for when they have no
form P45'; use the personal details and National Insurance number of the dependant, not those of the deceased.
Set the payroll indicator that they are a recently bereaved spouse or civil partner (Data Item E077 with a value of ‘Y’ to set or ‘#’ to remove)
If a pension recipient dies
Complete the leaver process as normal but additionally enter data against the new reason for leaving code “E090” with a value of “D” for died, e.g. “E090D”.
The leaving date should be set to the date of death.
As an option RTI lets you report that the payment is made to a non-individual against the RTI data item T170.
Do not issue any parts of the P45 either to the estate of the employee or HMRC.
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If the pension passes to a body other than an individual
Payments to Personal Representative, Trustee or Body Corporate - that is, a third party or non-individual? Then:
Tax code 'BR' (Data Item T000)
National Insurance number or ‘NONE’ (Data Item N003)
Gender as ‘M’ for male (Data Item E041)
Forename as 'RP'
Surname as the recipient body name (Data Item E006)
‘Payment to a non-individual’ indicator as Yes (Data Item T170)
Pensions – Trivial Commutation & Special Situations
Ceridian have introduced the following new codes to assist with RTI reporting where applicable for Trivial Commutation:
Trivial Commutation Type (Data Item T171)
o A - Trivial Commutation lump sums (TCLS)
o B - Small pot lump sum payments from personal pension schemes
o C - Small pot lump sum payments from occupational pension schemes
Trivial Commutation Amount (Data Item T172)
When a pension scheme makes a once-off Trivial Commutation payment then the payroll must indicate to HM Revenue and Customs the Trivial Commutation
amount. The value is automatically zeroised each period and is required to be entered for each trivial commutation payment. T171 and T172 are always used
in combination.
HMRC expect the value to be whole pounds expressed in pence. Therefore Ceridian systems will report any trailing non-zero pence entries as zeroes. ie the
final 2 digits will always be treated as zeroes to meet HMRC requirements.
HMRC also provide additional guidance on special situations:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/paying-a-company-pension-or-annuity-through-your-payroll
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Flexibly Accessing Pension Rights
From April 2015 those aged 55 and above have been allowed to access their money purchase pension savings as they wish.
Also recent announcements have introduced changes to certain lump sum death benefits including:
Uncrystallised fund lump sum death benefit
Drawdown pension fund lump sum death benefit
Annuity protections lump sum death benefit
Any death benefit paid as a lump sum where the member was over 75 at the time of death
Unused funds from a drawdown account, paid as pension, where the member is under 75 at the time of death
From April 2016 onwards where such payments are made then it is mandatory for the following data items are to be reported where relevant:
T177 Flexibly accessing pension rights (originally introduced from April 2015) (if used then an entry against T179 and/or T180 is required)
T178 Pension Death Benefits Indicator (if used then an entry against T179 and/or T180 is required)
T179 Flexible drawdown taxable payment (if used then an entry against T177 or T178 is required)
T180 Flexible drawdown non-taxable payment (if used then an entry against T177 and or T178 is required)
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Foreign Employees
PAYE tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs) apply to employees who come from abroad to work in the UK. Even if someone working is actually
employed by an overseas business, the UK employer may have to pay tax and NICs on earnings, but with some exceptions.
Right to Work – Eligibility to work in the UK
Before any employee works, the employer must check that they are eligible to work in the UK in accordance with Home Office requirements. If the passport is
used as a piece of evidence of entitlement to work in the UK, then HMRC do expect that the employer will provide the passport number for the payroll to
report using RTI (Data Item E012).
The General Rule
For employees coming to work in the UK, the UK employer is generally required to operate PAYE tax and NICs in the usual way, whether they are working on
either a temporary or permanent basis.
Even if they remain employed by an overseas business and the UK employer does not actually pay them, the UK employer is still treated as the employer and
has the same responsibility for recording and reporting earnings, calculating, recording, reporting and paying PAYE and NICs as for any other employee.
When an employee comes from abroad, the employee would generally follow the standard procedure for an employee without a form P45.
But there are exceptions and differences.
PAYE tax exceptions (foreign employees)
If an employee from abroad is a ‘seconded employee’, the UK employer is responsible for PAYE on earnings, but the rules on what tax code to use and Payroll
reporting are different.
A seconded employee includes:
individuals working wholly or partly in the UK for a UK resident employer on assignment whilst remaining employed by an overseas employer
individuals assigned to work wholly or partly in the UK at a recognised branch of their own employer's business
all individuals within a dedicated expatriate or modified PAYE scheme
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Employers must indicate any of the following which will be included in the RTI submission:
If they are under an EPM6(Modified) Scheme for tax equalised expatriate employees (Data Item T016)
If they pay a student loan
If they are from a country in the European Economic Area (EEA) (Data Item T015)
Their name (including surname/family name as well as first and second names), date of
birth and gender as shown on the documents you used to check the employee's
entitlement to work in the UK
The address at which the employee will reside when in the UK (not your business
address) including a UK postcode
National Insurance number if known
You must also indicate what their present circumstances are as follows (Data Item T335):
Value ‘A’ - they intend to live in the UK for more than six months (183 days or more)
Value ‘B’ - they intend to live in the UK for less than six months (less than 183 days)
Value ‘C’ - they will be working for you both inside and outside the UK, but will be living
abroad
If they have a UK student loan, start making repayment deductions from their first payday.
This information can be stored in any way the employer prefers but must be kept for at least two
years. HMRC has a model Expat Starter Checklist to use (replacing the former P46 EXPAT):
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/paye-expat-starter-checklist
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Using the right tax code for a seconded employee
Check the table below to see which tax code to use for your employee:
Employee present circumstances Tax code to use for 2016-2017 (Data Items T000 & T010)
(T335 A) I intend to live in the UK for more than six months (183 days or more) 1100L cumulative
(T335 B) I intend to live in the UK for less than six months (less than 183 days) 1100L week 1/month 1 (unless employee is a EEA citizen - see below)
(T335 C) I will be working for the employer both inside and outside the UK, but will be living abroad
1100L week 1/month 1 (unless employee is a EEA citizen - see below)
(T015 Y) EEA citizen 1100L cumulative, even if the employee has confirmed statements 2 or 3 above
If your employee does not give you information about their present circumstances before their first payday
0T week 1/month 1
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Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) & RTI
Where there any ShPP Birth cases the following data items must be present in order to report the details of the mother or partner to HMRC/DWP.
These can be found on the ShPP claim and are:
Mother’s First Name (M781)
Mother’s Second Name (M782)
Mother’s Surname (M780)
Mother’s NI number (M783)
Or
Where any ShPP Adoption cases exist, the following data items must be present in order to report details of the mother or partner to HMRC/DWP.
These can be found on the ShPP claim and are:
Primary Adopter’s First Name (M781)
Primary Adopter’s Second Name (M782)
Primary Adopter’s Surname (M780)
Primary Adopter’s NI number (M783)
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Leavers
Employers no longer report leaver details separately to HMRC. When an employee leaves they must still be given the form P45 Leaver Statement but the
employer no longer sends P45 part 1 information to HMRC either electronically or on paper.
The leaving date is notified to payroll and this data is included in the next regular submission of RTI data to HMRC.
To prevent or suppress the leaver segment being reported, enter data item E110 with a value of ‘#’.
If an employee who has left then changes their mind, or they were made a leaver by mistake, the employer should continue making payments on the same
employment record but do not enter a new start date (remove the leaving date). However, if the employer has already given the employee a P45, then they
need to treat them as a new starter with a different employment record (a different Payroll ID).
Payments after leaving (PAL)
Ceridian payroll offers facilities for payments after a payroll record is closed including share related payments.
When a leaver date has previously been notified to HMRC on a prior FPS submission and no P45 has been
produced (T010 # has been applied) then use:
E001 A – For additional payments after leaving (closed record) where a P45 has not been issued to the
employee. The on-file tax code and NIC letter is operated. A replacement P45 may be issued to these
employees.
Where a leaving date has previously been reported:
E001 I – For Irregular payments after leaving (with no regular wages or salary for item such as an unexpected bonus or accrued holiday pay) – do not
issue a further P45. The tax code 0T/1 is operated along with a single week of NIC contributions.
E001 P – For a regular Periodic payment after leaving or where regular and irregular payments are mixed (including wages and salary) – do not issue a
further P45
Where a prior FPS submission has reported a Leaving Date, the PAL details are reported with a ‘Payment after leaving’ indicator and the original reported
‘Leaving Date’. The employer must not issue a further form P45 leaver statement.
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The use of E001 A, I or P automatically applies the rules for both Tax and NICs including the checking of the
leave date to ensure the correct Tax Code & NIC category letter application is in accordance with HMRC
CWG2 requirements.
Please note that under RTI, HMRC have a view that an employee should not be treated as a Payment after
Leaving if the leaver details have not previously been reported on an FPS submission – however, this is contrary to the
HMRC guidance contained in CWG2 which stipulates the judgment point as being the issue of the P45 to the employee.
The latter is often the application required under compromise or settlement agreements.
In either case, the Ceridian payroll has been modified to report the RTI Payment after Leaving indicator only if there has
been a prior reported leaving date. Entry of a revised leave date will not change the original leave date reported to
HMRC.
Death
In the event of Death PAYE should be deducted using code 0T (on a week 1/month 1 basis) from any payments of earnings made to the personal
representative of the deceased employee.
Complete the leaver process as normal but additionally enter data against the new reason for leaving code E090 with a value of ‘D’ for died, i.e. E090 D.
Please note that Death is not reported to HMRC on the FPS as there is no facility provided by HMRC to do so.
The leaving date should be set to the date of death.
As an option RTI lets you report that the payment is made to a non-individual against the RTI data item T170.
Do not issue any parts of the P45 either to the estate of the employee or HMRC.
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PAYE & One-Off payments (including redundancy)
Different types of one-off payments to employees leaving your business are treated differently, and separate rules apply for working out the PAYE tax and
NICs due. For NICs purposes, one-off leaving payments are either wholly liable to NICs or not liable at all. Unpaid salary and holiday pay are treated as
earnings for the purposes of tax and NICs.
Some types of leaving payment are tax-free, some taxable in full, and some taxable only above £30,000. Most redundancy payments are tax-free up to
£30,000 and not liable for NICs.
For a list of the PAYE tax and NICs rules covering the most common types of one-off leaving payments, read the HMRC publication CWG2, 'Employer Further
Guide to PAYE and NICs'.
There's more information about redundancy on the GOV.UK website - see the link at the end of this section.
For any one-off payments where you have shown the date of leaving on a previous FPS - complete the following steps:
Open a new employee record (this ensure that the FPS only reflects the one-off payment without any additional year to date values and that a new
Payroll ID is used) by using data item E001 S & E001 Z & E001 I
Data item ‘E001 I’ will ensure that tax code 0T on a week 1/month 1 basis is applied and that one week of NIC bandings are used in any NIC calculation
for this one-off payment (if applicable)
Do not enter starter information (such as start date and starter declaration) but supress the sending of start information by entering E105#. Equally
suppress the leaver information by entry of E110 #
Make the payment against correctly set allowance elements
You must not give the employee a form P45. Instead, give the employee a letter showing the date of the payment, the gross amount, and the PAYE tax
you have deducted.
If you make a further one-off payment, follow the steps above - treat it as a totally separate payment and use a different employee record for each
subsequent payment.
Download CWG2, 'Employer Further Guide to PAYE and NICs (PDF 1.7MB)
Making staff redundant on the GOV.UK website (Opens new window)
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Errors and Corrections
When making corrections where the ‘payment date’ should be earlier than the date of the FPS submissions, you must include the late reporting reason H
(Correction to an earlier submission) against the payment using data item E015 along with the date to be reported.
If there has been a mistake in the RTI reporting to HMRC relating to an employee’s personal details such as date of birth or name, the employer is required to
contact HMRC’s Employer Helpline. The employer must use the corrected details.
If an employee’s personal details have changed (such as their address or surname due to marriage or divorce), employers are advised to request the
employee to contact HMRC. HMRC provide an online change of name or address facility to do this.
Employee's personal details have changed
If an employee's personal details have changed (for example: address or surname) employers should advise employees to contact HMRC to report the change
- see https://www.gov.uk/tell-hmrc-change-of-details.
The employer must enter the employee's new details on the payroll records so they are reported to HMRC in the next RTI submission. If the employee doesn't
report the changes to HMRC, then the new details will not be updated on the employee's record held by HMRC.
Employee start date is wrong
Update the payroll record to reflect the correct start date. Note - the corrected start date is not notified to HMRC as this would result in duplication.
Employee leaving date is wrong
Update the payroll record to reflect the correct leaving date. Note - the corrected leaving date is not notified to HMRC as this would result in duplication and
all subsequent FPS submission will continue to report the originally reported leaving date.
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Electronic messages sent by HMRC to employers
The Ceridian RTI Electronic Exchange service allows employers to take advantage of automatic Electronic Exchange messaging in relation to Tax Codes (P6,
P6B, P9), Student Loan (SL1, SL2), NINO verification responses and a Generic HMRC messaging service.
If you receive an exceptions email file of messages, then you need to locate, correct and apply to the payroll manually bearing in mind any effective dates
notified (for example, do not apply P9 data for a new tax year issued in February earlier than they are meant for i.e. 6th April).
Will the employer still receive paper notifications?
No, the employee will still receive their paper posted copy but the employer will now receive these electronically only. New codes will either be applied to the
payroll automatically or will be sent to you by email for manual application if the Payroll ID notified is not correct.
How do I know what messages have been applied to the payroll?
All updates via Ceridian Electronic Exchange appear on the standard data audit-trails (amendment report) with a suffix indicator of “/ELEX”. Also the data is
available for view in Pay results.
What happens with P6s and P9s where the tax codes may change within a couple of weeks of being issued, they would normally take the latest one but how would this work in the electronic system?
Tax codes are sent electronically with an accompanying issue and effective date, so the latest and correct tax code is automatically applied in accordance with
the HMRC issued priorities.
The NINO is different. What’s happened?
Ceridian RTI ElEx will apply the tax code to the employee that matches the RTI Payroll ID number else you would receive the tax code via email to apply
manually. What will also happen is that the audit trail will point out that the NI number is different than that held on the system.
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Where HMRC have supplied a valid NINO and Ceridian currently holds a value of “NONE”, in other words the NINO is not known, then Ceridian will
automatically update the employee NINO with the valid value supplied by the HMRC.
I would like my bulk annual P9s/P6(b)s to be sent through electronically, what is the latest date by which this can be requested?
The HMRC create the annual P9 updates in February each year, so any new tax code orders for the 6th April tax codes must actually be received by the
Ceridian Electronic Exchange coordinator (CEEc) by the previous 1st February.
Users do not need to request these annually, once the P9 flags have been set at HMRC then the messages will continue to be sent electronically unless
changed.
HMRC notification in relation to National Insurance Numbers (NINO)
A National Insurance trace is initiated for any new employee where the NINO is not present on the first RTI submission.
HMRC will respond with one of the following types of instruction. If received by Ceridian and there is a valid Payroll ID, the request will be applied
automatically (where appropriate).
Possible HMRC replies are:
National Insurance Number is correct (no action is taken)
Stop using the National Insurance number - it's wrong (in which case Ceridian will update data item N003 with the value ‘NONE’)
Use the National Insurance number in the notice in future (in which case Ceridian will update data item N003 with the number provided)
National Insurance number you have queried is correct (no action is taken)
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HMRC Misbalance / Penalty letter / Interest charges
HMRC systems are reliant on data being sent from employers to update the HMRC held records appropriately. Please note that records are only sent to
HMRC when there is detail to be reported. Occasionally HMRC may believe an item is not present or duplicated for a variety of reasons (such as change of
name, other identification or change in Payroll ID – the employee has moved from one payroll to another or one tax group to another etc.). These can cause
misbalance and therefore debt chasing as values can be double accounted as a result. Equally failure on the part of the employer in making reclaims cia the
Employer Payment Summary (EPS) can result in misbalance. If this happens and the payroll results are correct and accurate, request a dispute charge case be
raised for HMRC to investigate and resolve.
Leavers are not normally reported to HMRC once payment has stopped. If details have been changed subsequent to leaving or where you think a leaver
details may be missing, you can force a submission to HMRC by applying data item E115 with a value of Y. This will ensure that this individual is reported on
the next FPS submission.
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Ceridian Data Items and HMRC RTI data requirements
This section of the guide outlines RTI data items within the Ceridian Payroll Solution which require or may require user entry when applicable.
Entry of these follows the standard Ceridian payroll data conventions.
E012 Passport Number (RTI field 12)
HMRC are requesting that the passport number be provided for new employees or pensioners if the employer or pension provider collect it as part of their
checks required to ensure that the employee or pension recipient is entitled to work in the UK or receive a UK based pension. It is not a mandatory field and
other documents may be provided to prove entitlement to work in the UK or to receive a pension. There is no requirement to obtain the passport number of
pre-existing employees, or to obtain a new passport number following expiration for reporting to HMRC.
Maximum length 35 characters Valid characters - Letters, upper case A to Z
Numerals 0 to 9 Space character Full stop . Comma , Hyphen/minus sign - Opening parentheses ( Closing parentheses ) Oblique stroke (slash) / Equals sign = Exclamation mark ! Quotation mark "
Percentage sign % Ampersand & Asterisk * Semi-colon ; Less-than sign < Greater-than sign > Apostrophe ' Plus sign + Colon : Question mark ?
Value of DELETE resets the data to blank
E013 Irregular Employment Payment Pattern Indicator (RTI field 40a)
Used to indicate an individual who is not presently paid and may not be paid for a period extending beyond 13 weeks. This marker instructs HMRC that the individual should not be treated as a leaver and the associated HMRC record should not be recorded as closed.
Maximum length 1 character
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Valid characters - Y or N
Only value Y is reported if present.
E014 Number of normal hours worked (E058 / E059) (RTI field 54)
Entry is only required if no value is entered against Basic Hours (E058) or Basic Paying Hours (E059). Where no entry is present for E014, E058 and E059 then the default value is E for Other is reported on the HMRC FPS. Pension Payrolls would always report this value as E.
This is not the number of hours an employee has worked or is being paid for, but the range for the normal contractual hours a worker would be assigned in a pay week. Generally the value would not fluctuate from period to period.
Maximum length 1 character
Valid characters - A, B, C, D or E
Where:
A = Up to 15.99 hours
B = 16-23.99 hours
C = 24-29.99 hours or more
D = 30 hours or more
E = Other
E015 Late PAYE Reporting Reason & Date (RTI field 154)
Entry is only required if the employee is to be reported with a Late PAYE Reporting Reason for activity that relates to a reported payment date that has
passed (or will pass) at the point of the Full Payment Submission (FPS).
The reason and date is only reported on the FPS where the payment type is not ‘T’ for credit Transfer or where the Net Payment this time is zero. Where the
payment type is ‘T’ and there is a payment this period, then no reason is reported and the current standard payment date is reported as it is not late.
Maximum length 1 character followed by ‘/’ and an override this time payment date
Valid characters - A, B, C, D, E, F, G or H (# to remove)
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Where:
A = Notional payment: Payment to Expat by third party or overseas employer
B = Notional payment: Employment related security
C = Notional payment: Other
D = Payment subject to Class 1 NICs but P11D/P9D for tax
E = NO LONGER USED AND NOT A VALID LATE REPORTING REASON
F = No working sheet required; Impractical to report.
G = Reasonable excuse
H = Correction to earlier submission
Followed by an override reporting payment date in the format /DDMMYYYY
M780 Partners Surname or Family name entered on the ShPP claim (RTI field 74)
This data must be supplied for any ShPP claim.
Maximum length 35 characters
Valid characters - Alphabetic (A-Z), space character, hyphen(-), apostrophe(‘)
First character must be alpha (A-Z)
M781 Partners Forename or Given name entered on the ShPP claim (RTI field 75, 76)
This data must be supplied for any ShPP claim
Maximum length 35 characters
Valid characters - Alphabetic (A-Z), space character, hyphen(-), apostrophe(‘)
First character must be alpha (A-Z)
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M782 Partners Second Forename entered on the ShPP claim (RTI field 76, 77)
This data may optionally be supplied for any ShPP claim
Maximum length 35 characters
Valid characters - Alphabetic (A-Z), space character, hyphen(-), apostrophe(‘)
First character must be alpha (A-Z)
M783 Partners NINO entered on the ShPP claim (RTI field 78)
Must be in a valid format if supplied for any ShPP claim
Maximum length 9 characters
Valid characters - Characters 1-2 must be alphabetic, and be a valid NI prefix
Characters 3-8 must be numeric
Character 9 must be one of A, B, C, D or space
T170 Payment to a non-individual (RTI field 147)
This detail is currently entirely optional (it is completed voluntarily). This marker is entered where the payroll payment subject to PAYE is not being paid to an individual. For example, a payment being made to a Trust for a deceased employees estate or a firm of solicitors. However, if the payment is being made to an individual (such as a widow), then the marker is not to be used. The marker is automatically cleared down each period and is required to be entered for each payment to a non-individual
Maximum length 1 character
Valid characters - Y or N
T171 Trivial Commutation Type (Pensions) (RTI field 146)
When a pension scheme makes a once-off Trivial Commutation payment then the payroll must indicate to HM Revenue and Customs the Trivial Commutation type. The marker is automatically cleared down each period and is required to be entered for each trivial commutation payment. T171 and T172 are always used in combination.
Maximum length 1 character
Valid characters - A, B, C or space
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Where:
A – Trivial Commutation lump sums (TCLS)
B – Small pot lump sum payments from personal pension schemes
C - Small pot lump sum payments from occupational pension schemes
T172 Trivial Commutation Amount (Pensions) (RTI field 148)
When a pension scheme makes a once-off Trivial Commutation payment then the payroll must indicate to HM Revenue and Customs the Trivial Commutation amount. The value is automatically zeroised each period and is required to be entered for each trivial commutation payment. T171 and T172 are always used in combination.
Maximum length 7 characters
Valid characters - Cash value in pence, so must be numeric
HMRC expect the value to be whole pounds expressed in pence, therefore Ceridian systems will report any trailing non-zero pence entries as zeroes.ie the
final 2 digits will always be treated as zeroes to meet HMRC requirements.
T173 Value of benefits taxed via payroll - year to date (RTI field 149)
To enable the correct calculation of entitlement to Universal Credits and enable HM Revenue & Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions to verify payments with the BACS system, a new value is automatically populated with any pay elements identified as benefits taxed via payroll.
Equally Value of benefits taxed via payroll – year to date is automatically populated with the accumulation of relevant pay elements processed via Ceridian Payroll.
However, when taking on a new payroll or transferring details from one payroll to another, there is a requirement to also transfer the Value of benefits taxed via payroll – year to date. Occasionally errors occur and employers may need to adjust this value to make corrections for prior period errors.
Maximum length 11 characters
Valid characters - Cash value in pence, so must be numeric
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T174 On Strike (RTI field 152)
This detail is currently entirely optional (it is completed voluntarily). This marker is entered for each period that an employee is involved in industrial action i.e. on strike. The marker is automatically cleared down each period and is required to be entered for each pay period they are on strike.
Maximum length 1 character
Valid characters - Y
T175 Unpaid Absence (RTI field 153)
Do not use until further notification.
T176 Old Payroll ID for this employment (RTI field 39 & 40)
NB – Employee Transfers - Special care must be taken when transferring employees from one payroll to another where the employment is continuing within
the same PAYE scheme.
Data Item T176 is only to be used when taking on transferred data from another payroll into the Ceridian Payroll System. It enables HMRC to be notified that
the Payroll-ID held on the NPS system is to be updated and informs HMRC of the identity of the former record for tracing purposes. If omitted HMRC are likely
to consider that the individual has an additional employment.
As an example - Ceridian Payroll IDs are normally in the following format: CPaaaaaabbbbbbb
CP identifies the payroll ID as using Ceridian Payroll
aaaaaa identifies the 6 digit Ceridian Payroll number
bbbbbbb identifies the 7 digit Ceridian employee number
The former supplier format for use as Payroll ID could be in any format.
Maximum length 35 characters
Valid characters - Letters, upper case A to Z
Numerals 0 to 9 Space character Full stop . Comma ,
Hyphen/minus sign - Opening parentheses ( Closing parentheses ) Oblique stroke (slash) /
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Equals sign = Exclamation mark ! Quotation mark " Percentage sign % Ampersand & Asterisk * Semi-colon ;
Less-than sign < Greater-than sign > Apostrophe ' Plus sign + Colon : Question mark ?
When transferring an employee from a former RTI reporting payroll where the PAYE employment is continuous, you must also stop/prevent the reporting of
this individual as a new starter. This can be achieved by entering E105 #.
You must also ensure that you stop reporting this employee on the former payroll. If that was with Ceridian, then that needs to take place potentially in two
stages:
1. Stop the issuing of the Leaver elements by using data item E110 # in the last period where the employee is paid in the prior payroll (in association with data items E001L or Z).
2. In the following pay period for the old payroll, suppress any further RTI FPS reporting by applying tax basis eXclude by using data item T010 X. This is only required where the former payroll is continuing to be used for the payment of other employees and continues to report FPS data to HMRC.
T177 Flexibly accessing pension rights
This indicator is set by the user if any part of the payment is the employee flexibly accessing their pension. This includes payment of a flexi-access drawdown pension or an uncrystallised funds pension lump sum. A value must also be present against data items T179 and/or T180
Maximum length 1 character
Valid characters - Y
T178 Pension Death Benefits Indicator
This indicator is set by the user if any part of the payment is relating to Pension Death Benefits. A value must also be present against data items T179 and/or T180
Maximum length 1 character
Valid characters - Y
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T179 Flexible drawdown taxable payment
This values is applied if either T177 or T178 is set and there is an associated taxable payment
Maximum length 11 characters
Valid characters - Cash value in pence, so must be numeric
T180 Flexible drawdown non-taxable payment
This values is applied if either T177 or T178 is set and there is an associated non-taxable payment
Maximum length 11 characters
Valid characters - Cash value in pence, so must be numeric