Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2682) (“the principal Regulations”) which make provision for the assessment, charge, collection and recovery of income tax in respect of all pay as you earn income.

Regulation 67B of the principal Regulations requires an employer to deliver to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs the information specified in Schedule A1 to those Regulations on or before making a payment to an employee. Regulation 2 of these Regulations relaxes that requirement for an employer which as at 6th October 2013 employs no more than 49 employees. For the period beginning on 6th October 2013 and ending on 5th April 2014 regulation 2 provides that such employers must deliver the information specified in Schedule A1 by the end of the tax month in which the payment is made. A tax month runs from 6th of one month to 5th of the next month.

A Tax Information and Impact Note was published on 15th March 2012 alongside the Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/822) and the Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (S.I. 2012/821). This was updated as a result of changes to the impacts as a result of the year long Real Time Information pilot and is available on the HMRC website at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/thelibrary/tiins.htm. It remains an accurate summary of the impacts that apply to this instrument.