PAYE72021 - PAYE operation: payments for PAYE purposes: doubts about whether payment counts for tax purposes (Action Guide)
Where the employer or employee has a genuine doubt and payment has not been made, follow steps 1 - 7 below. The guide is presented as follows
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Steps 1 - 3 |
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Step 4 |
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Steps 5 - 7 |
Initial action
- Ask the employee to agree to tax being deducted
- Notify the employer that any overpayment will be repaid as soon as agreement is reached
Or
- Go to step 4 if the employee objects
If the employee objects
- Instruct the employer to either
- Exclude the disputed part of the payment from the gross pay calculation
Or
- Use code NT where the whole of the payment is disputed
If the payment is later found to be taxable
- Tell the employer to deduct tax from the total payment in future
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- With the employees agreement issue a non cumulative code to the employer to operate instead of code NT
- Ask the employer for a written statement of payments from which tax ought to have been deducted
