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  • No PAYE/NICs Payment Due

No PAYE/NICs Payment Due

You must let HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) know if you have no PAYE/NICs payment to make for a month, quarter or previous year. Please notify HMRC on or before your normal payment date to stop payment reminders.

You can do this quickly and easily using HMRC’s online notification service below. This lets you confirm immediately that nothing is due for:

  • the previous year and any month or quarter in that year
  • any previous month (shown in the drop down box) for the current year
  • a current month
  • the next month

If you are a quarterly payer select the month that corresponds with the end of quarter to notify there is nothing due.

When you notify HMRC that nothing is due it means you have nothing further to pay for any earlier month or quarter for the current year or for the previous year. If a month or quarter is not displayed it has long since passed. You should now either arrange to pay anything due up to the current month or quarter or tell HMRC there is nothing due for the current month or quarter.

If you have no monthly or quarterly payment due for a previous year

Using the drop down box below:

  • select the previous year
  • enter your Accounts Office reference number
  • submit to HMRC

If you have no monthly payment due (for previous or current month)

Using the drop down box below:

  • select the month for which no payment is due – previous, current or next
  • enter your Accounts Office reference number
  • submit to HMRC

If you have no quarterly payment due

Using the drop down box below:

  • select the period for which no payment is due – see table below
  • enter your Accounts Office reference number
  • submit to HMRC
QuarterPeriod to select
16 June – 5 July inclusive
26 September – 5 October inclusive
36 December – 5 January inclusive
46 March – 5 April inclusive

Online notification of no payment due

Enter the Accounts Office reference from the front of your payslip booklet. The reference is made up of 13 characters, for example: 123PA00045678

Other ways of letting HMRC know about nil payments

If you don’t want to use the above recommended online method or, exceptionally, you want to notify a NIL payment for a period that is not shown you can let HMRC know by:

  • returning your signed booklet payslip, form P30B, for the correct month marked ‘NIL due’
  • calling HMRC’s Payment Helpline on Tel 0845 366 7816 quoting your Accounts Office reference number and details of the month, quarter or year where no payment is due

Check your PAYE reference with the HMRC PAYE reference checker

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