The new online PAYE tools replace HMRC’s Employer CD-ROM. It includes all the CD-ROM’s interactive features plus an automatic update facility, to ensure the tools are up-to-date with the latest information and figures.

Employers who have used the Employer CD-ROM will need to use the new PAYE tools for the remainder of the 2010-11 tax year and for future tax years.  However, the Employer CD-ROM will first need to be updated, be downloading and installing the November Employer CD-ROM update. Please see our previous blog article on the November Employer CD-ROM update for more information. You will need to open Employer CD-ROM 2010 to ensure that the November update has been correctly installed.  Once confirmed, the online PAYE tools procedures can be completed. 

Any employer can use these tools, but they are most useful for employers with up to and including nine employees.

HMRC strongly recommends that employers keep up to speed with other important PAYE developments by signing-up to their free Employer email alerts.  Please see our previous blog article on the employers email alert service for more information.

HMRC will no longer be mailing hard copies of guidance to employers, so these alerts are now the best way to ensure employers are up to date with PAYE issues.

Please contact us if you have any questions.