It’s a breeze

KEY POINTS

• HMRC say that operating real-time information is problem-free.
• Exclusions from the pilot and teething problems.
• Ensuring that employee information and the alignment submission is correct.
• The problem is not submitting information but obtaining information.
• Simple payrolls will become more complex.

If you listen to HMRC you could believe that the real-time information (RTI) pilot is running without a hitch.

The official word is that employers have nothing to worry about – it’s a breeze – and the accountancy profession is over-hyping the problems but why are their opinions so diverse?

One of the first employers to trial the system was HMRC itself and the first run went very smoothly – but it would wouldn’t it?

Surely HMRC’s own payroll department would have been ridiculed if...