PAYE21045 | Employer records: maintain employer record: debt management office responsibilities

From HM Revenue & Customs · PAYE Manual

A Debt Management Office will be responsible for the following areas of work split into in-year and end of year duties.

In-year

  • Following up reminders for PAYE tax / NIC and contractor’s deductions when they become due

  • Dealing with employers and contractors who

  • Have ceased

And

  • Are insolvent

End of year

  • Issuing and recovering original and further forms P35 and P14 at the request of the PAYE Employer Office

  • Following up reminders for annual returns

  • Recovering underpaid PAYE tax / NIC and contractor’s deductions

  • Making recovery directions when employers or contractors fail to make deductions from payments