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We are pleased to announce the recent release of the HMRC Notices feature in Sage Business Cloud Payroll. This feature will enable you to connect to HMRC and retrieve the following notice types:
P9 - notice of a change to an employee’s tax code
P6 - notice of a change to an employee’s tax code, and year to date pay and tax values
NOT - notice which advises of the correct employees NI number to use
In the coming months we are aiming to extend this feature to also include the ability to retrieve Student Loan and Post Graduate Loan notices.
For more information relating to this feature, please see the following help article: HMRC Notices
Come on Sage, even Xero Payroll can do this!
On further consideration, the current licencing for Sage Business Cloud Payroll extends to up to 100 employees, if the product is to be taken to be a contender in switching from the desktop product or as competition to other developers then the inclusion of checking the HMRC mailbox for new tax codes is a must.
I had no idea that this functionality was not available when opting to use Sage Payroll and migrate from Sage 50 Payroll where the feature exists.
As employers have an obligation to ensure tax codes are applied and operated, and a connection has already been established to send information to HMRC, it is an expectation that the software should be able to check for new tax codes, send NI verification requests, etc. Is this not one of the basics that should be included.