When an employee leaves your company, you need to print their P45. Your software includes P45 layouts that you can print to blank paper.
TIP: The P45 is a fixed report from HMRC, due to this you can't edit the layout.
You can only print the P45 report after you enter a leave date in the employee record.
If you use the leaver wizard to make the employee a leaver, the wizard gives you the option to print the P45. If you didn't print it using the wizard, or if you didn't use the leaver wizard, you can print the P45 separately.
If the employee has left in a previous tax year. Before you can print the P45, set the process date to a date within the tax year that the employee left.
CAUTION: If you need to reprint a P45, you must not reissue this as a duplicate to an employee.
As all employers must now file in-year returns to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) electronically, you don't need to print P45 Part 1. To print P45 Part 1A, Part 2 and Part 3 on plain paper, use the P45 (Plain Paper For Use With E-Submissions) report:
You submit P45 Part 1 to HMRC via the full payment submission (FPS). You need to provide P45 Part 1A to the employee for their own records. You can also provide P45 Parts 2 & 3 to the employee so they can provide this to their new employer.
If you're trying to print a P45 for an employee who is already a leaver, you can clear your criteria to show leavers:
To hide the leavers once you've printed the P45:
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