crystaltash
Well-Known Member
Hi all.....I'm so confused about Maternity pay.
I received advanced funding to cover my staff members SMP which was great. However, now every month when I calculate what PAYE payments are due to HMRC, the software is telling me I dont owe anything because of the SMP that I'm paying this girl. But I thought thats what the advanced funding was for and my PAYE payments would go on as normal.
Also, whenever I put the SMP into the software it tells me that I should be paying the girl £145.76 instead of the £136.78....its adding on £9 somewhere, so I have just been paying what I'm told to pay! I only have 3 employees, one of which doesnt earn enough to be paying tax and NI. I also use the HMRC RTI software. I have phoned HMRC twice about this and they didnt explain it very well and werent very helpful. I dont want to be hit with a big bill in case I'm doing something wrong. Can someone help me? Thank you.
I received advanced funding to cover my staff members SMP which was great. However, now every month when I calculate what PAYE payments are due to HMRC, the software is telling me I dont owe anything because of the SMP that I'm paying this girl. But I thought thats what the advanced funding was for and my PAYE payments would go on as normal.
Also, whenever I put the SMP into the software it tells me that I should be paying the girl £145.76 instead of the £136.78....its adding on £9 somewhere, so I have just been paying what I'm told to pay! I only have 3 employees, one of which doesnt earn enough to be paying tax and NI. I also use the HMRC RTI software. I have phoned HMRC twice about this and they didnt explain it very well and werent very helpful. I dont want to be hit with a big bill in case I'm doing something wrong. Can someone help me? Thank you.