PAYE21230 - employer records: maintain employer record: schemes not processed list


A Week 30 Open List is produced annually to show open cases, where the Processing Office staff have processed the PAYE scheme.

At the same time the PAYE Schemes Not Processed List is produced showing details of those employer records, which do not hold any P14 information for that year on COP.

This list identifies the unprocessed schemes by

  • Employer name
  • )employer reference

And includes cases where

  • The P35 and P14s have not been received from the employer
  • The employer record has been cancelled one year only (COYO)
  • The P35 has been recorded as received and captured on the Employer Business Service (EBS) but is yet to be processed by NICO
  • OCPN scheme types when either
  • The P14s have not yet been processed by the NICO Magnetic Media Handling Centre

Or

  • COP Function DC has not been used

2000/01 Targeted Work Items

The lists were analysed to identify those employer references that required specific follow up action, and, for tax year 2000 / 01, every Processing Office with an End of Year section was required to carry out their review of certain targeted entries on the list before 5 April 2002.

Regional Offices issued spreadsheets containing details of the following types of employer

  • Unprocessed schemes where form P35 appeared to have been recorded as received but not captured
  • Unprocessed schemes where no P35 appeared to have been recorded as received

Additionally, Processing Offices may have received a NICO stencil schemes not processed requesting paper forms P14 relating to the following kind of employer record

  • Schemes which had been captured on EBS but the End of Year papers had not been received by NICO

Guidance on the action to take in each circumstance is included in Action Guide 'Schemes Not Processed List' PAYE21231.