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Sending your payroll details to HMRC online


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Almost all employers must send their payroll details to HMRC online. You can do this from Sage 50 Payroll through e-Submissions.

Submitting information to HMRC through e-Submissions

When you click Submit to start the submission process, the Important Notice window appears. Use the click here link to view the information Sage captures during the submission.

Note: We use this information for licence validation, troubleshooting issues relating to the Government Gateway and for statistical analysis. None of the personal information held in your software is submitted to Sage. To print this information, click Print.

Click Continue > check your registration and company details > Submit.

The information being submitted is checked for accuracy. If something is detected that would cause the submission to fail, the Errors & Warnings window appears. For more information, refer to Errors and warnings below.

Errors and warnings
To view information about an error, click the relevant Reference link. Errors. You must correct any errors that appear before you continue with the submission. For example, a missing employee name. To get a paper copy of this information, click Print. To stop the submission process, click Close and then manually make the correction in your software. Warnings. The data preparation process automatically corrects any warnings that appear, such as extra spaces or invalid characters in an employee name. To get a paper copy of this information, click Print. To continue with the submission, click Submit. The Submitting window appears, displaying the progress of the submission and, when this is complete, the Finished window appears. Note: Automatic corrections only affect the employee details being submitted to HMRC. The relevant details held in your software do not change.

Errors and warnings

To view information about an error, click the relevant Reference link.

Errors. You must correct any errors that appear before you continue with the submission. For example, a missing employee name. To get a paper copy of this information, click Print. To stop the submission process, click Close and then manually make the correction in your software.
Warnings. The data preparation process automatically corrects any warnings that appear, such as extra spaces or invalid characters in an employee name. To get a paper copy of this information, click Print. To continue with the submission, click Submit. The Submitting window appears, displaying the progress of the submission and, when this is complete, the Finished window appears.

Note: Automatic corrections only affect the employee details being submitted to HMRC. The relevant details held in your software do not change.

To view and print details of the submission, use the Click here link. If the submission was unsuccessful, the report displays error messages advising you what caused the failure. Find out more.
To complete the process and return to the payroll desktop > Close.

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