Hi

The facility to record payments made to the Inland Revenue is vital - especially if your payroll and accounts are not integrated - it acts as a reconciliation. Are there plans to include this facility soon?

Regards

Emma

We are missing something here. We still don't understand what benefit anyone is thinking that they'll get from this proposal. It just seems like a pointless duplication of a task that already *must* be happening as part of bookkeeping. Why is duplicating something that you already have to do  as part of bookkeeping any benefit in your payroll package?

By the same argument you should be recording in the payroll software what payments you actually made to each of your employees too, and reconciling those payments with the net pay in the payroll on each employee. You'd get the same benefit from that (whatever benefit that is). Does anyone really want to do that in their payroll software? If you want it for the payments to HMRC and not for the employee payments then why one and not the other? Isn't all this (reconciling employee and HMRC payments in bank and books) a completely natural part of bank reconciliation and bookkeeping?

As I say, we must be missing something here as several of you are asking for it, and we'd be delighted to understand what it is that we're missing, because understanding the purpose of the requirement will help us to produce better software. Answering purposeless requirements without understanding the problem that is being solved tends to produce bad clumsy software.

I must admit I agree with Pete on this one.  On a rival product (*age !!!) you have the facility to record payments made to HMRC.  This is because, for some reason, some people writing the cheques accidentally transpose numbers, or you may have to rerun the payroll after the payment has already been made.  If that same person then forgets to make the additional payment it causes hell at year end.  You also may have an overpayment on the previous year to carry forward, for which you need to reduce the April/May liability payment for, and recording in the system the reduced payment (or increased payment)  can automatically link to the P35 production at the end of the year when you have to complete how much you have already paid to HMRC, and autocomplete it.  It saves going backwards and forwards to the bookkeeping system (or client) to find out the figures.

Just my twopen'nerth!

Adam

I did notice it!  (Although it took me a while after being wowed with the holiday options!!)

I would just like to say how good it is to use software that is produce by people who actually listen to their users and make amendments, rather than trotting out release after release with no real added benefit!

THANKYOU!

Hi,

I've started using the payment history but having entered an amnount in pounds and pence it drops off the pence, does this mean that when we pay HMRC we can drop off the pence?