We have listed below the answers to a selection
of questions commonly asked by users of Sage
Payroll. For comprehensive product support
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Q. One of my employee's is receiving
SMP. What will happen to the lower rate of
SMP when I start processing in the new tax
year?
Q. I have a new director who
wants to pay National Insurance on a month
by month basis, rather than cumulatively.
Can this be done in Sage Payroll?
Q. I forgot to print the P32
for tax month 9. Do I have to restore my backup
to print it?
Q. An employee left the company
last month and is now due an extra payment
for overtime worked during their last week.
How can I process this?
Q. I take my backups onto floppy
disks but have recently had a CD writer installed.
Can I backup to CD instead?
Q. There is no information relating
to Class 1A NIC on any of my P32's or my Year
End Reports. Why is this?
Q. Can I advance holiday pay
over the Year End?
Q. One of my employee's is
receiving SMP. What will happen to the lower
rate of SMP when I start processing in the
new tax year?
A. Sage Payroll will continue to pay the
remaining SMP within the new tax year and
will automatically pay the employee at the
new statutory lower rate. The SMP Entitlement
window within the Employee Record displays
the different rates paid across the two different
tax years.
Q. I have a new director who
wants to pay National Insurance on a month
by month basis, rather than cumulatively.
Can this be done in Sage Payroll?
A. Yes. Sage Payroll gives you the choice
of deducting director's National Insurance
using either the Director Cumulative or the
Director Table methods. If you choose to use
the Director Table method, the deduction for
National Insurance is made using the weekly
or monthly thresholds and is calculated in
the same way as a non-director. To meet Government
Legislation requirements, Sage Payroll automatically
recalculates the National Insurance on a year
to date basis when either the final payroll
for the year is calculated or when the director
leaves part way through the year.
Q. I forgot to print the P32
for tax month 9. Do I have to restore my backup
to print it?
A. No. You can print a P32 for any tax month
that has been updated, even if subsequent
months have been updated. Simply run the report
and when prompted, specify the exact month
you require, for example from Month 9 to 9.
Q. An employee left the company
last month and is now due an extra payment
for overtime worked during their last week.
How can I process this?
A. Sage Payroll allows you to change the
employee's existing record so that you can
process an additional payment without affecting
the previous calculations for tax. The additional
payment and tax details are added to the employees
year to date values, however, you should not
produce a second P45 because the employees
additional earnings are picked up on your
year end returns.
Q. I take my backups onto
floppy disks but have recently had a CD writer
installed. Can I backup to CD instead?
A. Yes. If you have been given access to
write information to the CD writer, all you
have to do is change the backup path within
the Backup Wizard to specify the correct drive
letter for the CD writer.
Q. There is no information
relating to Class 1A NIC on any of my P32's
or my Year End Reports. Why is this?
A. Government Legislation states that Class
1A NIC details must no longer appear on your
P32, P35, P11 or P14/60 Year End reports.
Your Year End reports should only include
Class 1 NIC's and PAYE. Calculation of 'Benefit
in Kind', which are not directly associated
with PAYE, are therefore not included for
reporting purposes. The company cars and fuel
feature has been retained within Sage Payroll,
simply to assist you with the calculation.
Class 1A NIC (cars and fuel) must now be included
in your P11D and P11D(b) reports along with
all other Benefits in Kind.
Q. Can I advance holiday pay
over the Year End?
A. Yes. Use the Advance Pay routine to enter
the number of weeks the employee will be on
holiday, in the usual way. Your Sage Payroll
program calculates the tax and National Insurance
up to the end of the current tax year, and
carries forward the tax allowances to the
new tax year.
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