RTI Commenth (Hold me I'm scared)

[inniAccounts]

Everything's working ok for us - we're getting successful submissions back within a second or two...

We've had to fix a couple of DQ issues and we've got one rouge FPS that's refusing to go, but we're about to call HMRC to resolve.

[inniAccounts]

Fatal floor.

We can't call them.

They're on strike.

[Archangel]

I've done an ffps, and fps and an eps today, they all seem to have been received ok by hmrc.

[captainham]

Fatal floor

Fatal floors AND rouge FPS?! Sounds hellish, next you'll be telling us there are fatal flaws and rogue FPS too, then we are all truly doomed!

[inniAccounts]

Ahh.

Yes.

Option B please.

[BunnyBomb]

Still no response...

I think it's time to call this a bust.

I've been trying for days now to submit my first FPS and it still just sits there with "Initialising submission". No response from the service at all, not even a "bugger off" response.

So...I got a little desperate and deployed a packet sniffer to tell me what's being sent / received in the submission process. To sum it up in plain english, the server is going "ummm...*hic*...who are you again?"

The online services status page says this though:

Sorry - HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are currently experiencing problems with the service you have requested. HMRC are dealing with the problem and hope to have this service available again shortly, so please try again later.

[BunnyBomb]

I've been exploring the idea of 'submitting an entire year in advance' a little further...

The rules currently state you need to do an RTI submission on or before the payment date. I've done some research and I cannot find anywhere that places a limit on how far in advance you can prepare or submit an RTI submission. So it appears, on the face of it, that you could indeed prepare an entire years worth of submissions (say) this month and submit them early.

This could work for people who have a very simple PAYE arrangement (i.e. 11 months of no payments, followed by 1 payment of an annual salary - or 12 months of a fixed never changing amount like myself).

I thought I should report, I finally got the opportunity to test the above theory...

I am delighted to report that you can submit far in advance!

I've managed to submit all my FPS submissions for the entire tax year in under 20 minutes.

Job done



PS: Not meaning to take all the credit but...I ended up spending about 8 hours, over the course of April, on the phone with the HMRC tech team explaining that they had a major flaw in their code. The flaw creates a miss redirect, which only affects Windows users doing a custom install with a shared data folder. It's nice to see they have now put a workaround up for the issue, but yeah it was blocking me for weeks, so have only just now been able to try the 'submitting in advance' folder...I really should send them a bill...