Task 3: Prepare and submit payroll tax forms

You can use the Accounting End of Year Tax Forms Assistant window to prepare P35 and P14/P60 payroll tax forms for your employees. You can e-file these forms using HM Revenue & Customs’ PAYE Online for Employers service, or submit them by post.

Before you can e-file P14 and P35 forms, you need to register for the HM Revenue & Customs’ PAYE Online for Employers service. To ensure you meet the filing deadline, you need to start the registration process at least seven days prior to the deadline.

For more information on e-filing or to start the registration process, go to gateway.gov.uk/.

If you need to change payroll information you’ve prepared and submitted using the End of Year Tax Forms Assistant, you can use the assistant to prepare and submit an amended form. These amended forms must be prepared before you start the next payroll year in your company file.

To prepare a payroll tax form

Follow the steps below to prepare your payroll tax form—or an amended tax form if the original details were incorrect.

note : Submitting amended forms

You can only submit amended forms using the End of Year Tax Forms Assistant window if you used the window to submit your original forms.

Go to the Payroll command centre and click Prepare Payroll Tax Forms to start the End of Year Tax Forms Assistant.

In the first window of the End of Year Tax Forms Assistant, choose your preferred method of lodgment by clicking either:

I want to prepare my P35 and P14/P60 forms for e-file using my software

I want to prepare my P35 and P14/P60 manually and submit them via post.

In the remaining windows of the End of Year Tax Forms Assistant, complete either:

your original tax form details

the amended tax form details—only enter the P35 and P14/P60 information that has changed since submitting the original form.

For more information about the End of Year Tax Forms Assistant, press F1 in any page of the assistant to open Help.