Payroll tax code changes 2016-2017

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Summary

As per this year's government guidelines on the HMRC website, all L tax codes have been raised by '40' as of 6th April 2016 (i.e. first payroll period of the new year).

An Employee with an existing tax code of '1060L' will now become '1100L'.

For further more detailed information please refer to the HMRC website here.

More Information

Please note that the corresponding change in the tax threshold is handled by the programme update that you will have run to move from '2015-16' to '2016-17'.

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.
'Monthly' or 'Weekly'.
  • Move to the employee in question.
  • Press <Shift+F10>.
  • Press <Page-Down> to get to Page 2 and then amend the "Tax Code:" field accordingly. You will be asked to confirm the change.
  • 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 tax codes for all employees by a set amount, go to " Payroll Maintenance Options Payroll Settings Global Tax Code Changes".
  • Select the suffix you wish to change.
'L'.
  • 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 by pressing <U>.
The ones with a P9T form
  • Press <F2> to finalise the changes and click the [Tagged] or [UnTagged] buttons or press [Cancel] to abort the changes.

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