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72H. Regulations 73 to 75 apply to—
(a)non-Real Time Information employers,
(b)Real Time Information employers in relation to tax years in which they were, for the whole of the tax year, non-Real Time Information employers, and
(c)Real Time Information employers to whom HMRC has given a notice requiring a return under regulation 73 in respect of a tax year.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 72H inserted (6.4.2012) by The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/822), regs. 1(1), 34
73.—(1) Before 20th May following the end of a tax year, an employer must deliver to the Inland Revenue a return containing the following information.
(2) The information is—
(a)the tax year to which the return relates,
(b)the total amount of the relevant payments made by the employer during the tax year to all employees in respect of whom the employer was required at any time during that year to prepare or maintain deductions working sheets, and
(c)the total net tax deducted in relation to those payments.
(3) The return must be supported by the following information in respect of each of the employees mentioned in paragraph (2)(b).
(4) The supporting information is—
(a)the employee’s name,
(b)the employee’s address, if known,
(c)either—
(i)the employee’s national insurance number, or
(ii)if that number is not known, the employee’s date of birth, if known, and sex,
(d)the employee’s code,
(e)the tax year to which the return relates,
(f)the total amount of the relevant payments made by the employer to the employee during that tax year, and
(g)the total net tax deducted in relation to those payments.
(5) Paragraphs (2)(c) and (4)(g) are subject to regulation 64(7) (trade disputes).
(6) If an employee was taken into employment after the beginning of the tax year, the employer must also provide the total amounts of—
(a)any amounts required by regulation 43(9), 52(11), 53(3) or 61(3) to be treated as relevant payments made by the employer to the employee during the tax year,
(b)any amounts treated as tax deducted by the employer by any of those regulations,
(c)the sum of the figures given under sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph and paragraph (4)(f),
(d)the sum of the figures given under sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph and paragraph (4)(g).
(7) The return must include—
(a)a statement and declaration containing a list of all deductions working sheets which the employer was required to prepare or maintain at any time during that tax year; and
(b)a certificate showing—
(i)the total net tax deducted or the total net tax repaid in the case of each employee, and
(ii)the total net tax deducted or repaid in respect of all the employees,
during that tax year.
(8) The statement and declaration and the certificate must be—
(a)signed by the employer, or
(b)if the employer is a body corporate, signed either by the secretary or by a director.
(9) Paragraph (8) is subject to regulation 211(5) (authentication in approved manner if return sent electronically).
(10) Section 98A of TMA(1) (special penalties in case of certain returns) applies to paragraph (1).
73A.—(1) This regulation applies where, as a result of a retrospective tax provision, the total amount of the relevant payments made by an employer to employees increases for any closed tax year.
(2) Where this regulation applies, before 20th May following the end of the tax year in which the enactment containing the retrospective tax provision is passed, the employer must deliver to HMRC a return containing the following information.
(3) The information is—
(a)the tax year to which the return relates,
(b)the revised total amounts of the relevant payments made, or treated as made, during the tax year to all employees in respect of whom the employer was required, or has subsequently become required, to prepare or maintain deductions working sheets for any time during that year,
(c)the total net tax deducted in respect of those payments.
(4) The return must be supported by the same information in respect of each of the employees mentioned in paragraph (3)(b) as is required by regulation 73(3) to support a return under that regulation.
(5) The return must include—
(a)a statement and declaration containing a list of all deductions working sheets which the employer was required to prepare or maintain at any time during that year, and
(b)a certificate showing —
(i)the total original net tax deducted or repaid in the case of each employee,
(ii)the revised total net tax deducted or repaid in the case of each employee;
(iii)the total original net tax deducted or repaid in respect of all the employees,
(iv)the revised total net tax deducted or repaid in respect of all the employees, and
(v)the difference between the figures given in paragraphs (iii) and (iv) above.
(6) The statement and declaration and the certificate must be—
(a)signed by the employer, or
(b)if the employer is a body corporate, signed either by the secretary or by a director.
(7) Section 98A of TMA (special penalties in case of certain returns) applies to a return under paragraph (2).]
Textual Amendments
F2Reg. 73A inserted (6.4.2007) by The Income Tax (Pay as You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1077), regs. 1, 15
74.—(1) Before 20th May following the end of a tax year, an employer must deliver a return to the Inland Revenue in respect of every relevant employee.
(2) The return must contain the following information—
(a)the employee’s name,
(b)the employee’s address, if known,
(c)the employee’s national insurance number, if known,
(d)the employee’s job title or description,
(e)the tax year to which the return relates,
(f)the dates during which the employee was employed in the tax year, and
(g)the total amount of the relevant payments made by the employer to the employee during the tax year.
(3) A “relevant employee” is one—
(a)to whom relevant payments exceeding the PAYE threshold were made at any time during the tax year,
(b)who was employed for more than a week, or
(c)who was paid more than £100 during the tax year.
(4) But the following are not relevant employees—
(a)an employee included on a return under regulation 73 (Forms P35 and P14),
(b)an employee who has indicated that statement A or statement B [F3applies] on Form P46 (see regulation 46), and to whom the employer has not made relevant payments exceeding the PAYE threshold at any time during that tax year.
Textual Amendments
F3Word in reg. 74(4)(b) substituted (6.4.2006) by The Income Tax (Pay as You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2691), regs. 1, 9(2)
Commencement Information
75.—(1) An employer must immediately deliver an additional return to the Inland Revenue on each occasion that—
(a)the employer has not made any repayment of tax withheld under regulation 64(5) (trade disputes) within 42 days after the end of the employee’s strike action, and
(b)a return has been made under regulation 73 which, in accordance with regulation 64(7)(b), treats that tax as if it were repaid.
(2) The return must contain the following information—
(a)the tax year to which it relates,
(b)such information as the Board of Inland Revenue may require for identifying each of the employees in question, and
(c)the amount of tax not repaid to each of those employees.
(3) The return must be accompanied by a statement containing the following information—
(a)a list of all employees in respect of whom the additional return is made,
(b)the amount of tax not repaid to each of those employees,
(c)the total tax not repaid by the employer to those employees for that tax year.
Section 98A was inserted by section 165(1) of the Finance Act 1989 (c. 26) and amended by paragraph 138 of Schedule 6 to ITEPA.