PAYE27042 - employer records: maintain schemes: TAS - cessation of a TAS scheme (Action Guide)
To take the appropriate action when an employer record is no
longer required and the scheme is to be closed, follow steps 1 - 27
below. This Guide is presented as follows
| Initial action | Step 1 |
| Clerical action | Steps 2 - 5 |
| P35(TAS) issue | Steps 6 - 8 |
| P35(TAS) not received by due date | Steps 9 - 12 |
| P35(TAS) received by due date | Steps 13 - 21 |
| Action at revised due date | Steps 22 - 27 |
For details of how to access any of the Employer Business
Service functions, use the [Index of Functions] button on the left
of the screen.
Initial action
- If you have received confirmation from the scheme provider that the scheme has ceased
- Use Function AMEND EMPLOYER SCHEME HISTORY to enter the cessation date
Clerical action
- Retrieve the employer related electronic file ‘Taxed
Award Schemes’
- Delete the entry for your scheme provider in the employer
related electronic file ‘Taxed Award Schemes’
- If all contracts have expired
- Use Function AMEND EMPLOYER NOTES to record your actions and then file the papers in the employer record pad
- If a contract has been terminated
- BF the Taxed Award Scheme file to 90 days after the issue of the notice of termination to the provider
- At BF date go to step 7
P35(TAS) issue
- Issue the following to the provider (amending where necessary)
- P35(TAS) with the following amended entries
- Tax year if appropriate
- Delete last sentence of third paragraph ‘…….after the end of the year’ and replace with ‘…….of the date of issue of this form’
- P440 and P440(CS) (one for each Taxed Award contract) with the following amended entry
- Tax year if appropriate
- TAS Payment advice
- Delete ‘4 July..’ and insert the date 90 days after the date of issue of the form P35(TAS)
- L30(A)(CL) / L30(B)(CL) Payslips
- Delete all references to National Insurance, Statutory Sick Pay and amounts deductible from subcontractors
- Enter in the box headed ‘Debt Management Reference’ the Accounts Office reference, the last two digits of the last tax year and in the final section enter ‘12’
- When entering the employer’s name include the words ‘Incentive Scheme’
- Envelope ENV 26(R)(F) or ENV 26(R)(B)
- Enter your Employer section address
- Envelope ENV AZ ENZ 5 (BR)
- Record in employer record pad on form P441
- Date of issue of P35(TAS)
- Number of forms P440 sent
- BF the papers for a further 90 days for receipt of P35(TAS) by the due date
- If the P35(TAS) is received by the due date go to step 13
- If the P35(TAS) is not received by the due date go to step 9
P35(TAS) not received by due date
- Contact the provider by telephone where possible reminding them
to complete and return the form and make the payment due
- BF your papers for the outstanding P35(TAS)
- If the P35(TAS) is received go to step 13
- If the P35(TAS) is still outstanding at the BF date go to step 11
- At the BF date send a memo to the Debt Management Office giving the following details
- Tax year concerned
- Revised due date
- Dates of issue of P35(TAS) and reminder
- Number of contracts involved and the details of each
- Use Function AMEND EMPLOYER INDICATORS to set the indicator INSTIND to (1)
P35(TAS) received by due date
- If you have already referred the scheme to the Debt Management
Office to pursue for non-receipt advise them that it has now been
received
- Check if the declaration on form P35(TAS) has been signed. If not
- Photocopy form P35(TAS)
- Use photocopy when reconciling scheme
- Send form P35(TAS) back to the provider asking them to complete the declaration and return the form to you
- Check the number of contracts shown on the back of form P35(TAS)
- If all basic and higher rate contracts shown on form P440 go to step 16
Otherwise
- Write to the provider asking for the missing forms (and treat them as additional returns when received)
- Find the employer papers
- Check the subfolder for each contract shown on the front of P35(TAS). If any contract expired during the P35(TAS) year
- Delete the entry for the contract in the ‘list of contracts’ for that Taxed Award Scheme held in the employer related electronic file
- Check the figures for the following
- Carry forward figures of ‘Gross value’ and ‘Basic rate’ tax from any forms P440(CS) to forms P440
- Carry forward figures of ‘Basic rate or higher rate’ tax from forms P440 to form P35(TAS)
- Arithmetic for ‘Total payable’ on form P35(TAS)
- That the ‘Total payable’ is within £5 of the total ‘Gross value’ on all forms P440 x basic rate or higher rate tax for the year
- Check if the provider has carried forward any altered figures correctly
- If not write to the provider for the correct figures
- Check if any of the tax figures on form P35(TAS), P440 or P440(CS) are incorrect. If so
- Cross the incorrect figure out and insert the correct one (in green ink) next to it
- Advise the provider of the revised figures
- BF your papers until the revised due date
Action at revised due date
- Use Function VIEW BROCS to obtain a screen print of the
Employer Data Year Summary for the year
- Compare the screen print with the tax due shown on P35(TAS). Is the tax due shown on P35(TAS) all paid?
- If yes go to step 25
- If no go to step 24
- Send a memo to the Debt Management Office advising details of
- Tax year
- Revised due date
- Amount due shown on form P35(TAS)
- Date form was signed
- BF your papers until after 5 April of the tax year shown on
form P35(TAS)
- At BF use Function CAPTURE EOY RETURN DETAILS to process the P35(TAS)
- Ensure you show the total tax figure on the front of form P35(TAS)
- Enter ‘Y’ in the INHIBIT U/P field
- File away papers in appropriate ranges
