PAYE64013 - employment maintenance: employment history: format 1 advisory messages (Action Guide)


When you use Function MR Format 1 you may see the following advisory message - ‘Total cumulative pay and tax from employment no .Pay…. Tax…. - Check to ensure that the totals correctly reflect all employments’. To deal with this message follow steps 1 - 6 below.

For details of how to access any of the COP functions use the [Index of Functions] button on the left of the screen.

  1. Ensure that the employments are shown in the correct chronological order
  2. If they are not in the correct chronological order
  • Use Function MR to correct any errors

And then

  • Follow steps 3 - 6
  1. Check the pay and tax details are correctly included in the total shown
  2. Use Function TT to check if the taxpayer has underpaid tax, use the week number in which the date the latest employment commenced falls

Note: For more information about using Function TT follow the instructions given in ‘Further Action After Using Function MR (Action Guide)’ at PAYE64021

  1. If the taxpayer has not underpaid tax (This text has been withheld because of exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000)
  • Use Function CD to issue form P6 with the correct code including total pay and total tax
  1. If the taxpayer has underpaid tax (This text has been withheld because of exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000)
  • Use Function CD to
  • Issue the correct code on a Wk1 / Mth1 basis if the code in operation needs changing
  • Issue form P2 to the taxpayer
  • Issue form P6 to the employer if the code has changed