Exemplar 15: PAYE for employees
Published 1 June 2013
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The PAYE for employees service aimed to make Pay As You Earn digital for all of HMRC’s 41 million customers who are employees or receive a company pension.
Department responsible
| Department | Permanent secretary | Digital leader |
|---|---|---|
| HM Revenue and Customs | Lin Homer | Mark Dearnley |
Status
Recently undertaken the live Digital by Default Standard Assessment. This service is being built alongside exemplar 16: Digital Self Assessment and exemplar 17: Your tax account.
Watch an update on the beta, filmed December 2013:
Exemplar 15: PAYE for employees - Update
Watch a short demo, reporting a new company car online, filmed January 2014:
Demo: Exemplar 15 – PAYE for employees
Watch a description of the exemplar:
Exemplar 15: PAYE for employees - Background
You can also watch a demo introducing the service, filmed July 2013:
Exemplar 15: PAYE for employees - Demo
Successes
The public beta was released in October 2014.
Challenges
Adapting current HMRC methods to agile development.
Next
Continue development of the service and improve quality of data matching alongside GOV.UK Verify.
Digital strategy statement
From the ‘HM Revenue & Customs digital strategy’ — September 2014:
Every customer in the UK will have their own personalised digital tax account, so we can help make it simpler, quicker and easier to pay the right tax at the right time. Four services (PAYE for Employees, Digital Self Assessment, Your Tax Account and Agent Online Self-service) will deliver stand-alone, end-to-end services through digital channels…PAYE for Employees will make it easier for customers to tell us about changes that affect their tax code.
Scope of exemplar
This service will provide digital PAYE services for people in employment (benefits in kind). The initial release will allow people to report changes to their company car tax. This service will be built on a new ‘digital tax platform’ and, for the first time, deliver digital services for PAYE customers which will eventually replace the current HMRC Portal and be the default platform for new user-facing services. The new tax platform will be fully integrated with new identity assurance service.
Digital inclusion
GDS has mapped the exemplars against the digital inclusion scale to help show where these services may be difficult for some people to use. See the rating for PAYE for employees.
Delivery Status
Discovery
Completed: Discovery — February 2013.
Read about the discovery phase.
Alpha
Complete: Tax platform alpha build — March to May 2013.
Beta
Completed: Develop private beta — June 2013 to January 2014.
Completed: Private beta release — February 2014.
Completed: Public beta release — October 2014.
Live
Service completed live Digital by Default Standard Assessment — March 2015.
Service goes live (depending on Service Standard assessment) — March 2015.
Anticipated volume
41m registered PAYE employees
Service link
See the PAYE for employees service.
For further information about this project please visit our blog or contact us.