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Harps


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Hi, I wonder if anyone could help me!

I have just taken on a client who has had a dispute with his accountant regarding fees and he is going to court. In the meantime his payroll records have gone by the wayside. He has just been debiting the net wages from his business account and paying his employees, but no corresponding payments have been made to the HMRC.  I assume the HMRC are chasing his former accountant who is witholding all the letters.  I am going to contact HMRC to find the definate date the last payments were made but I suspect this goes back to the last tax year and PAYE bands and NI rates have changed.  Has anyone got any suggestions how I can gross up the pay from the net pay?

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Hi Harps,

Inform the accountant that you are going to take the matter to their supervisory body (assuming that they have one!!!) if the letters from the revenue are not released to your client. ACCA or ICAEW would take a very dim view of this behaviour.

When in dispute there are some documents that the accountant has a legal right of lien over but letters from the revenue in respect of your client are not amongst them!

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Harps


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Thanks Shamus, I will. I understand my client has already contacted the ACCA about the fact he is keeping his records but I suspect that HMRC documents weren't specified.  He didn't get anywhere!

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If you have Sage Payroll, it can gross up net wages. Its gonna be alot of work expecially if its from the last financial year!

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Harps


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I have got SAGE payroll so I will have a look at the software and see if I can work how to do it. Is it pretty straight forward?  I have always used the manual tables/forms except for when I did my payroll training.

Thanks for that.



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Go into Company and Legislation and input the bandwidths for the periods from old tax data.

I probably have the employers CD ROM from last financial year which will have the info, which I could fish out and send you if you like.  Just PM me if so.

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Great,  that is a really big help.  I have the employers cd rom from last year and the bandwith limits so I will have a go in Sage.

Thanks again.

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