Payroll tax code changes 2014-2015
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Summary
As per this year's government guidelines on the HMRC website, all L tax codes have been raised by 56 as of 6th April 2014 (i.e. first payroll period of the new year).
 | An Employee with an existing tax code of 944L will now become 1000L. |
For further more detailed information please refer to the HMRC website here.
More Information
Please note that the corresponding drop in the tax threshold from '£34370' to '£31866' is handled by the programme update that you ran to move from 2013-14 to 2014-15.
Single Tax Code Changes
- To change a single employee's tax code, go to " Payroll Run Payroll Period".
- Select the correct pay period from the selection, e.g. Monthly or Weekly.
- Press the <Down Arrow> to the employee in question.
- Press <S+F10>.
- Press <PGDN> to get to Page 2 and then amend the "Tax Code:" Field accordingly.
- Press <Esc> and <Accept> to complete the change.
Global Tax Code Changes
| The following instructions should be done BEFORE entering any P9T details. For any employee where you have received and entered a P9T, their tax code MUST be checked and changed to match the form. |
- To change all employees tax codes by a set amount, go to " Payroll Payroll Parameters\Maintenance Payroll Parameters Global Tax Code Changes".
- Select the suffix you wish to change e.g. 'L' and then enter the amount you wish to raise it by in the "Allow." column.
- Press <F2> to view the proposed changes.
- All employees will be tagged as standard. This can be left as is or you can untag certain employees e.g. ones with a P9T form by pressing <T>.
- Press <F2> to finalise the changes and click the [Tagged] or [UnTagged] buttons or press [Cancel] to abort the changes.
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