End-of-Year Online Filing - Errors in 2006/07 returns

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11 October 2007

HMRC has announced that there was a further reduction in the number of PAYE P35 and P14 returns that were rejected for not meeting the Quality Standard, down from 5% for 2005/06 to 1.4% for 2006/07. The majority of errors were caused by incorrect characters in fields and incorrect recording of NICs. Payroll developers have been sent details of how their software performed. Most of the errors listed by HMRC in the latest issue of Notes for Payroll Software Developers are validation issues and are matters for the developers themselves to address. However, employers should also give attention to the following common errors:

• an incorrect Scheme Contracted Out Number (SCON), incorrectly copied from the employer's contracting-out certificate
  
  
• an incorrect PAYE reference number, including the three-digit office number with the employer reference
  
  
• using a cancelled PAYE reference number
  
  
• entering valid but incorrect characters, such as 'O' instead of '0', 'S' instead of '5', 'Z' instead of '2'
  
  
• forgetting the submission password
  
  
• adding additional information to the employee surname, such as "staff" or "temp".

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