What’s new on your updated 2008 CD-ROM?

The updated 2008 Employer CD-ROM was included with the paper version of April’s Employer Bulletin. You can also order the updated CD-ROM from the Employer Orderline Help, guidance and calculators have been amended to cover the changes in the 2008 Budget.

What’s new on your updated 2008 CD-ROM

Your updated version of the 2008 CD-ROM now includes:

  • An Expenses & Benefits dispensation ‘wizard’ that will tell you if you can apply for a dispensation.
  • An interactive SSP2 that will store Statutory Sick Pay records and calculate SSP for you.
  • ‘Export Diary’ to spreadsheet function, so you can add your own reminders.
  • ‘Net Pay Estimator’ that will estimate an employee’s net monthly or weekly pay. Note - the estimator does not take into account other payroll deductions such as pension payments, student loan deductions, deductions ordered by the courts and subscriptions – the only deductions that are taken into account by the estimator are tax and National Insurance contributions.

CD-ROM P11 Calculator and 2007-08 online filing

If you use the P11 Calculator to work out your employee’s pay, tax and National Insurance, all the information from February’s CD-ROM will be transferred to the new disk automatically. You should not lose any data that you already hold for your employees.

If you have not sent your 2007-08 Employer Annual Return to us yet, there is still time to use the CD-ROM to send it to us online if:

  • you used the P11 Calculator on the 2007 CD-ROM to calculate pay, tax and NICs for all your employees for the whole year
  • you were using the P11 Calculator for nine employees or less at 5 April
  • you have transferred your 2007-08 P11 details onto a 2008 CD-ROM before you made the final payment the year.

Invalid employer PAYE references

Some of you may have got a message saying that your employer PAYE reference was invalid when you transferred your 2007-08 data onto the 2008 disk. Your employer PAYE reference should be shown in the format 123/A12345.

Subcontractors’ deductions

You must manually enter the amount of deductions made from subcontractors during the year at box 23 on the Employer Annual Return form P35. We recommend that you use the figures from your monthly Contractor Returns. You can use the figures from the P32 but we are aware that if you entered subcontractor deductions on the P32 on the 2007 CD-ROM these deductions did not flow to the P32 on the 2008 CD-ROM. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused, but this has been fixed for the updated CD-ROM.

If you have already sent your Return you do not need to make an amendment if you entered the wrong figure at box 23.

Director’s annual earnings period

If you are paying a director, you have to calculate National Insurance at the end of the year using an annual earnings period check, even if the Director had National Insurance deducted on a regular basis throughout the year.

The P11 Calculator will carry out the annual earnings period check when you make the last payment of the year or you complete the end of year 2007-08. For more help on the messages you can get, go to the P11 Calculator Guide on the CD-ROM.