This is stage three of four to complete your payroll year end. You can view all four stages in our payroll year end 2026 hub.

Payroll year end is quick and simple, follow the steps below to process your payroll year end.

Set your process date

1. On the Payroll navigation bar, click Change Process Date.
2. Enter 05/04/2026.
   
   NOTE:

   When you do this, the Tax Period week number is 53. This is correct, and isn't affected by whether you processed a week 52 this year end.

3. Click OK.

Choose tax year

1. To begin the year end process, click Payroll Year End in the bottom left of your software.
2. Click Choose Tax Year, then click Yes to include all employees.
3. Check the Tax Year is 2025/2026.
4. Check the Reports date is 05/04/2026.
5. If your company has ceased trading, in the Cessation Date box enter the date it ceased trading. Otherwise, leave this blank.
6. Click OK.

Internet submissions

This is your final submission of the 2025/2026 tax year. The deadline to submit is 19 April 2026.

Important information

Your year end submission doesn't submit any liability values. It only confirms that you've processed and submitted all periods.

You submitted your liability values in the Full Payment Submission, and if applicable, Employer Payment Summary during the final period of the 2025/2026 tax year.

The summary window of the year end submission shows n/a beside Employment Allowance and Apprenticeship Levy YTD. This occurs whether or not you claim employment allowance, or have apprenticeship levy liability. This is normal, and you can continue to send your year end submission.

Complete your submission

1. Click Internet Submissions, read the Important Notice, then click Continue.
2. Check your company details are correct, then click Submit.
3. Check that the tax year and your details are correct.
4. Click Submit.
   When the HMRC Government Gateway is busy, it can take a while for the submission to go through. If you want to continue processing and come back later to check the progress of your submission, click Check back later. Find out more in our delays during submissions to HMRC article.
5. Once your submission is successful, click the link, then click Print.
6. Click Close.

Employee P60s

Anyone you employ as of 5 April 2026 requires a P60. The deadline to issue these is 31 May 2026. You don't need to produce a P60 for any employee who leaves on or before 4 April 2026.

Produce your P60s

With your process date set to 05/04/2026, click Produce P60s and select to upload, print or email them.

Backup data

At this point, we recommend you back up your data.

Complete year end

1. Click Complete Year End, then click Yes.
2. If you keep mileage records, click Yes, or if you don't, click No.
3. Click OK.

Distribute YE returns

This step is just a reminder that you must give your employees their P60s by 31 May 2026. If you uploaded your employees' P60s for them to view online, you don't need to issue physical copies.

Pay any tax and national insurance due to HMRC for tax month 12 by 19 April 2026 as normal.

• To complete this step, simply click Close

Next steps

You've now processed your year end. When you return to your employee list the Process Map appears. If you'd prefer to hide it, click View, Change View then Employee list.

You're ready to move on to the last stage of year end, to get ready for the new tax year.