For the 2007/08 tax year, employers will be required to enter the employee's date of birth and gender on form P11D if the employee's NI number is not known. The 2006/07 version of the form also asks for this information but completing it is not mandatory. As the inclusion of date of birth and gender on the 2006/07 form was a late change of design, some developers were unable to include the fields on their substitute forms. HMRC is approving substitute forms without the fields and will accept returns that do not provide the information.

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Following the announcement of new PAYE and NICs legislation for workers in Managed Service Companies from April 2007, HMRC has changed the wording of Question 6 in Part 3 of the P35 Employer Annual Return for 2007/08. The new wording reads:

The only other changes to the 2007/08 version of the P35 Return is clarification on the first page that the employer is only required to complete the Return if there was a requirement for the employer to complete any P11 Deductions Working Sheets.

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