Pay dates and the HMRC Tax Calendar
- Article ID
- 12019
- Article Name
- Pay dates and the HMRC Tax Calendar
- Created Date
- 1st March 2020
- Product
- IRIS PAYE-Master, IRIS Payroll Business, IRIS Bureau Payroll, IRIS GP Payroll, IRIS Payroll Professional, Earnie, IRIS Earnie IQ
- Problem
What tax period does my pay date fall into? How does the HMRC tax calendar work?
- Resolution
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HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) use their tax calendar to break payroll dates into tax weeks/months. This calendar is fixed and does not change year on year. The tax week/month is always based on the pay date for the period, eg. when the employee actually gets their pay.
• Tax Months always start on the 6th and run to the following 5th eg. Tax Month 1 – 6th April – 5th May
• Tax week 1 starts on the 6th April and runs to 12th April, subsequent weeks run on from that date.
• If you run a 2-weekly payroll you will always process with the 2nd week’s number eg. week 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, etc.
• If you run a 4-weekly payroll you will always process with the 4th week’s number eg. week 4,8,12,16,20, etc.
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