Friday, February 17, 2006

HMRC Internet Filing - downtime

If you are planning to file your end of year returns early this year, you might not be able to. We have received this from the HMRC:

So that we can upgrade our PAYE Online for Employers Internet service to include the quality checks for 2005-06 we will be temporarily suspending the end of year filing facility between 1 March and 5 April 2006. We will be fully testing this upgrade before 6 April and as soon as we are able to restore the facility to file end of year returns we will do so...

This means that third party applications will not be able to file Employer Annual Returns (P14s and P35) during this period. Employers or their agents will however still be able register, change their preferences and send and receive all other forms and returns online...

During this temporary suspension of service any attempts to file Employer Annual Returns will get the following error message:

Error Number 1046 Authentication Failure. The supplied user credentials failed validation for the requested service.

This does not mean that the user has entered the wrong User ID or Password during the suspension period. It indicates that the service is not available for filing. We are acutely aware that a number of employers and agents would have liked to file their 2005-06 return before the 6 April 2006 and are working to have the service available as soon as it is tested.

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