Filing P45/P46 forms

JodieR

After much frustration trying to file a P46 for an employee who started in March it turns out that HMRC have disabled this function altogether (even for preiods before RTI kicks in).
Full story here: http://hmrcisshite.blogspot.co.uk/ (scroll down to the ship picture) but i particularly love this comment:

“Why HMRC decided to switch this feature off for past tax years is a mystery and it has come as a complete surprise to employers.

At the same time as they are trying to grasp RTI businesses are faced with trying to work out why their P45s are being rejected – as if they didn’t have enough to worry about.

The fact that the surprise removal of this feature coincided with downtime and a helpline strike has caused chaos.”

happy days!