The following Employment Tax guidance note by Tolley in association Susan Ball provides comprehensive and up to date tax information covering:
Once the PAYE healthcheck has been carried out, the organisation will receive a report. This will detail the reviews undertaken and their findings, and make recommendations to improve the employer’s compliance processes. In many cases a written report will simply be a formal record of earlier presentations made to the employer on the issued identified.
As a result of the outcome of the review, changes may need to be made within the organisation.
As the healthcheck report is potentially disclosable (see below), if such changes are not made and the same issues come to light in a later HMRC compliance check, this will almost certainly lead to a greater level of penalties being imposed than if the shortcomings were only discovered at that later stage.
At the conclusion of the healthcheck, a report will be provided to the employer. The format of the report should be agreed before the start of the review and ideally detailed in the engagement terms.
Note that, once the employer receives a written report, it is a legally discoverable document in that it is not covered by legal privilege. In the case of R (on the application of Prudential plc and another) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax and another [2010] EWCA Civ 1094 (subscription sensitive) the Court of Appeal ruled that advice about tax law taken from specialist tax accountants does not attract legal advice privilege. HMRC can therefore request to see the document.
The report may take the form of:
In advance of issuing the
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