It's important that you view and reconcile the figures that you send to HMRC each period. 

Find out below how to view the values on your full payment submission (FPS) and employer payment summary (EPS) submissions.

FPS viewer

The FPS viewer shows you the values you submitted in any prior FPS. You can analyse your FPS further by adding or removing extra data using the Columns button.

1. Click e-Submissions, then click FPS Viewer.
2. Select the submission to view on the list to the left.
    TIP: Your software automatically formats the FPS filename using the date and time you sent it: "SgeFPS-YYYY-MM-DD-Hours-Minutes-Seconds.xml". 
3. To add or remove data, click the Columns button in the top right.
4. Select or clear the checkboxes to show or hide data as required then click Close to save these changes.
5. When you're finished in the FPS Viewer, click Close.

Submission reports

FPS liability - pre-update

You can run the FPS Liability report so that you have full visibility of your payment to HMRC. This report uses the values for the current period. If you make any amendments to pay before you update records, re-run this report.

Run this report every pay period before you update your records.

1. Click Pre-update Reports, then click Summary.
2. Double-click FPS Liability Report.

FPS liability - post-update

You can use the FPS Reconciliation reports to reconcile the liability figures on your FPS. You can run it by date or by employee.

Run this report every pay period, after you update your records but before you submit your FPS. This enables you to check the figures in the FPS wizard with this report before making the submission.

1. Click Reports, then select the required tax year.
2. Double-click the report you required:
   • FPS Reconciliation report - By Date
   • FPS Reconciliation report - By Employee

Sometimes, the message 'The report couldn’t be generated. No data was returned for this report.' appears. Check you're running the correct report for the relevant tax year.

EPS Reconciliation Totals

It's important that each EPS you make includes the correct year to date values of your statutory payments.

The EPS wizard automatically calculates the cumulative totals of your statutory payments. You can use this report to confirm the values in the EPS wizard are accurate.

 NOTE: Any CIS deductions suffered values you enter in the EPS wizard aren't on this report. This is because your software doesn't record CIS suffered values.

Run this report every pay period, after you update your records but before you submit your EPS. This enables you to check the figures in the EPS wizard with this report before making the submission.

1. Click Reports, then click Period End.
2. Click EPS Reconciliation Totals only.

EPS Reconciliation report

This report is useful to reconcile EPS values, as it provides each employee's statutory payment values. You can use these to reconcile the totals in the EPS submission wizard.

The report doesn't include any CIS deductions suffered values that you added during the EPS, as your software doesn't store these values.

1. Click Reports, then click Period End.
2. Click EPS Reconciliation report - By Date.

e-Submissions Log

You can view your submissions using the e-Submissions log, which you can filter by submission type, date and status.

For more information, go to our e-submissions log article.