PAYE90040 - taxpayer end of year: taxpayer underpayments: stranded underpayments list - other actions (Action Guide)


To carry out the duties required when reviewing the list of stranded underpayments, consider steps 1 - 12. The guide is presented as follows

Later years openSteps 1 - 3
POTA or MREVStep 4
Taxpayer deceasedSteps 5 - 9
Control of stranded underpayments listSteps 10 - 12


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Later years open

These duties must be carried out by an Assistant Officer. If a stranded underpayment is referred to you because there are open years after the year for which the stranded underpayment arose

  1. Review any open years in accordance with PAYE93070
  2. (This text has been withheld because of exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000)

  • (This text has been withheld because of exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000)
  • (This text has been withheld because of exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000)
  1. Use COP Functions AS, CD and NO and Self Assessment to check if the net underpayment has been included in the tax coding or an income tax return has been issued for that year

  • If the underpayment has not been included in the tax coding and no income tax return has been issued follow PAYE90037 regarding the net underpayment
  • If action has been taken on the underpayment mark the entry on the stranded underpayments list ‘already dealt with’. No further action is needed.

POTA or MREV

  1. If there is an entry in COP essential notes, POTA (or MREV) - CODED PA SETTLEMENT SUBMIT TO INSPECTOR, pass the papers to a Higher Officer to review recovery action

Taxpayer deceased

There are specific time limits when dealing with the tax affairs of a deceased taxpayer. Refer to AP4344 onwards.

  1. Review any other open years
  2. (This text has been withheld because of exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000)
  3. (This text has been withheld because of exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000)

  • If there is not an estate follow PAYE90031 steps 1 - 9
  1. If there is an estate use COP Functions AS, CD and NO and Self Assessment to check if the net underpayment has been included in the tax coding or an income tax return has been issued for that year using Self Assessment

  • If action has not been taken follow PAYE90037 regarding the net underpayment and AP4344 onwards
  • If action has been taken on the underpayment mark the entry on the stranded underpayments list ‘already dealt with’
  1. Refer the papers to an experienced Officer if liability arises after death

Control of stranded underpayments list

These duties must be carried out by the Officer responsible for the office balance. To carry out the Officer duties required when you receive the list of stranded underpayments, consider steps 10 - 16.

  1. If you receive a list stating ‘the review of taxpayers records has revealed that there are no relevant cases in your district’, put it in the stranded underpayment establishment file and take no further action
  2. Where there are relevant cases, you will receive lists headed

‘Stranded underpayments (year) list of cases for remission without further review’

Or

‘Stranded underpayments (year) and cases listed under category B are within the limit for remission by the district. Remaining cases listed under category C require Enforcement Office authorisation before remission’

  1. On receipt of these list(s)

  • Cross through the existing headings on both lists and substitute ‘list of stranded underpayments for review [year]’
  • Photocopy the lists
  • Keep the originals of the lists in the Stranded Underpayments establishment file
  • Give extracts of the photocopies to the staff who will be reviewing the cases
  • Arrange for all lists to be reviewed using the instructions in ‘Taxpayer Underpayments’ and the Action Guides on ‘Stranded Underpayments’ that can both be found in this section of the manual
  • Note each stage of action against the entry on the original list until all the cases have been cleared