PAYE104060 - taxpayer records: citizen identification record: maintain capacitor address


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Entering or amending a capacitor address on a taxpayer record

Additional delivery information

Foreign capacitor address and Foreign indicator

Long capacitor address

Capacitor address history

Entering or amending a capacitor address on a taxpayer record

A capacitor address can only be entered (or amended) on the Citizen Identification Framework by using TBS Function ADDRESS SEARCH. This function is accessed from TBS Function AMEND CAPACITOR DETAILS.

The purpose of Function TBS ADDRESS SEARCH is to trace and use a UK address that has been verified by the Post Office. That is, the address is held in the Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF). This function allows you to search the PAF. Where no match can be made, or the address is abroad, you may enter an address manually.

When you use TBS Function VIEW CAPACITOR DETAILS to view the capacitor address on the taxpayer record

  • The status 'Verified' will identify an address that has been traced and matched with the PAF
  • The status 'As Input' will identify an address that has not been matched and has been entered manually

Additional delivery information

There may be occasions when a capacitor address that has been matched with an address on the Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF) and stored on the taxpayer record does not complete the full postal address. In this situation, a field in TBS Function AMEND CAPACITOR DETAILS allows you to enter additional delivery information. This will be included on any correspondence sent to the capacitor as an aid to assist delivery of post to the correct destination.

The following are examples of additional delivery information

  • A room or flat number
  • A wing of a building

Foreign capacitor address and Foreign indicator

An address is Foreign if it is not

  • Within the United Kingdom, Isle of Man or Channel Islands
  • One of HM Ships
  • With British Forces Abroad or an address with a British Forces Post Office (BFPO) number

This is the same definition as Abroad in COP.

A Foreign capacitor address can be held on a taxpayer record. Foreign addresses are not held on the Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF) and must therefore be entered manually.

When you enter a foreign address on the taxpayer record, you must set the Foreign indicator against that address. When the computer issues correspondence to that address, the indicator identifies the need to separate that item from mail to be issued at the UK second class rate. The Foreign indicator can only be set using TBS Function ADDRESS SEARCH.

The Foreign indicator can only be unset by entering a new, United Kingdom, address in TBS Function ADDRESS SEARCH.

It is no longer possible to set or unset the Abroad indicator in COP. Where the Foreign indicator is set / removed in TBS it will automatically set / remove the Abroad signal on COP.

Long capacitor address

There may be occasions when you have not been able to match an address using TBS Function ADDRESS SEARCH and will have to enter that address manually. If the capacitor's address is too long to be held in full on the taxpayer record, you will have to abbreviate that address. That abbreviation will appear on printed output. There is no provision to issue correspondence manually using the full, unabbreviated, form of the address.

Before you enter an abbreviated capacitor address on the taxpayer record, ensure that the capacitor has agreed to the abbreviated address.

You should also consider making a note of the full capacitor address and the date of the agreed abbreviation in COP E-NOTES.

Capacitor address history

Any changes to a capacitor address will result in an historical record being created.

Historical capacitor address details and the date those details were made historical can be viewed in TBS Function VIEW CAPACITOR HISTORY.