Once you complete a reporting period, you should record your P32 payment details.
If required, you also submit the EPS.
You usually submit an EPS for the first tax reporting period. You can submit another EPS for each reporting period if recovering statutory payments.
You may not need to submit an EPS if there are:
- No Statutory payments to recover for the current period
- No CIS deductions to recover for the current period
If the summary screen shows No EPS Required this means there is nothing to recover.
NOTE: Payroll doesn't make the HMRC payment. You still need to pay HMRC the amount due.
The deadline for payments depends on your payment method:
Submit the EPS
- Select Summary.
- Within the HMRC Real Time Information (RTI) Scheme area, check the current EPS status.
- Select Actions, then Record Payment / EPS.
- If the Record Payment / EPS option doesn’t appear, either:
- Not all pay runs are complete for the reporting period
- All FPS submissions relating to these pay runs have not been successful
NOTE: Read our article Submission errors (opens in new tab). - Select Actions. Select Record Payment / EPS and enter the required details for your P32 payment:
| Eligible for small employer’s relief | To claim Small Employers’ Relief, choose Yes. You qualify for this relief if your total gross Class 1 NICs in the qualifying year were £45,000 or less.
This figure excludes Class 1A and Class 1B National Insurance contributions. Find out more about Small Employers' Relief |
| Eligible for NI Employment Allowance | To claim the NI employment allowance, choose Yes. Most employers can claim a £5,000 NI employment allowance. This is offset against your employer's NI contributions If you qualify, you must specify this when you record the P32 payment details Find out more about Employment allowance |
| Tax and NI due to HMRC | The total amount of tax and NI currently owed to HMRC. |
| Record amount paid to HMRC | This is the total amount of tax and NI you’re actually paying to HMRC in this payment. For a breakdown of the Amount Due value, refer to the P32 Employer Payment Record Do not include any statutory payment funding advanced to you |
| Payment date | The date of your payment to HMRC. |
| Ref/Cheque number | The reference or cheque number associated with the payment, if applicable. |
- Select Next, then confirm the balances are correct:
| Amount of CIS Deductions suffered | If you aren't sure, see the HMRC article Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) (open in new tab). Enter the total CIS deduction amount suffered up to and including the current pay run. The year to date amount up to the previous pay run also appears You can get this value from column E of Form CIS132 The value reduces your tax liability. Payroll updates this for you. You need to deduct the amount from your liability |
| Total Recovery & Compensation for Statutory Payments | The year-to-date value recovered from HMRC. The values cover up to and including the current pay run.
The balance up to the previous pay run also appears. This calculates for you, and includes recovery of any: Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP) Ordinary Statutory Paternity Pay (OSPP) Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (ASPP) |
- Select Next.
- Select Submit.
A successful submission shows on the Summary screen.
You can now make your payment to HMRC as normal.
If you have Sage Accounting and Payroll, your totals will post to your accounts package. This happens at the end of each tax reporting period. You can check what’s posted by looking at the salary journals