Policy paper

Exemplar 15: PAYE for employees

Published 1 June 2013

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

漏 Crown copyright 2013

This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: [email protected].

Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned.

This publication is available at /government/publications/gds-transformation-programme-2013-to-2015/exemplar-15-paye-for-employees

The PAYE for employees service aimed to make Pay As You Earn digital for all of HMRC鈥檚 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:

Watch a short demo, reporting a new company car online, filmed January 2014:

Watch a description of the exemplar:

You can also watch a demo introducing the service, filmed July 2013:

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 .

Digital strategy statement

From the 鈥�HM Revenue & Customs digital strategy鈥� 鈥� 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鈥AYE 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 鈥榙igital tax platform鈥� 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 鈥� February 2013.

Read about the discovery phase.

Alpha

Complete: Tax platform alpha build 鈥� March to May 2013.

Read about the alpha phase.

Beta

Completed: Develop private beta 鈥� June 2013 to January 2014.

Completed: Private beta release 鈥� February 2014.

Completed: Public beta release 鈥� October 2014.

Read about the beta phase.

Live

Service completed live Digital by Default Standard Assessment 鈥� March 2015.

Service goes live (depending on Service Standard assessment) 鈥� March 2015.

Read about the live phase.

Anticipated volume

41m registered PAYE employees

See the PAYE for employees service.

For further information about this project please visit or contact us.

Back to top