Payroll Standard and Accreditation - HMRC publishes version 8 of the Payroll Standard

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10 January 2008

The Payroll Standard sets out the standards that must be met by software developers seeking official HMRC accreditation for their payroll systems. Version 8 of the Standard has been published. The current version of the Standard defines a set of "core" requirements that all accredited payroll systems must provide. However, functionality such as 2-weekly and 4-weekly pay frequencies, directors' NICs and contracted-out pension deductions (i.e. table letters D, E, L, F, G and S) are optional and are not required to be present in all accredited payroll systems.

Version 1 of a new Pensioner Payroll Standard has also been published, defining functionality that is necessary for payrolls that only pay pensioners. The Standard does not, for example, require the system to be capable of processing NICs, pension deductions and statutory payments.

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