RTI (Real Time Information) E-Filing
1 2eFile provides user friendly, comprehensive and cost effective RTI eReturns to HMRC. The system will cover all RTI eReturns and eReceipts you need, regardless of whether you use EDI or XML channels for your data interchange with HMRC. You can use our system for LIVE testing against HMRC's RTI Live server at any time.
Our system is not only the first to gain HMRC recognition, it has also been successfully used by members. More details about our system are as follows.
3a. How does e-filing of Returns Work?
RTI eReturns - What and When to e-File
1. Full Payment Submission (FPS)
This is the regular return you need to make after you have made the first and second returns. Your need to make a FPS return whenever you make a wage payment to an employee, be it monthly, weekly, 2 weekly or 4 weekly. Each pay frequency has its own respective FPS return. The process of making this return is the same as the first and second returns i.e. you simply download the template from www.1 2eFile.com and then populate the data into it. Once you upload the data to www.1 2eFile.com it will e-file the documents for you. This service is not free.
Our system also helps you to generate the BACS file automatically, with the correct algorithm specified by HMRC i.e. the 4 character random string attached to the BACs and the corresponding HASH CODE at the FPS. We support the following BACS outputs.
2. Employer Payment Submission (EPS)
This is the second document you need to e-file to HMRC after you have e-filed the EAS. In this document you need to include all employees with all pay frequencies and their respective payments. The process for e-filing this return is the same as the first EAS return i.e. first you download from www.1 2eFile.com the given spreadsheet template which defines all the data you require. Extract the data from your system and place it into the spreadsheet and then further upload it back to the www.1 2eFile.com server. The server will automatically convert your data into HMRC's required XML format and then e-file it for you automatically for FREE.
3. Earlier Year Update (EYU)
This submission is used to correct errors made in a previous tax year. Errors made in the current tax year are corrected in the payroll system and then reported via either an amending FPS, or the next normal FPS.
The EYU is only used when an error on the FPS is noticed on or after 20 April in the following tax year. The EYU shows only the amendments to be made to the relevant year-to-date figures for an employee.
4. NINO Verification Service (NVR)
This allows employers to validate or obtain a new employee NINO. The process is similar to the above i.e. download the template from www.1 2eFile.com and then upload it back to 1 2eFile to e-file the details. After e-filing you need to log on to www.1 2eFile.com to view and/or download the responses from HMRC. The process is conducted through something known as the Data Provisioning Service (DPS). The download we will give you is in a CSV file for you to further upload to your system to update your employees' NINOs.
5. Auto Tax Code Update DPS
We can also help you do auto tax code updates from your P6 and P9. This system is proven and has been used successfully by many very large employers since 2006. Once you click the button on our www.1 2eFile.com system, we will go to the HMRC server to fetch your tax codes, then convert them to a CSV format for you to upload to your server to conduct the auto tax code updates. This is done under the HMRC DPS system. The system supports the data of up to 250,000 employees.