PAYE81680 | PAYE operation: international employments: issuing code NT to employer

From HM Revenue & Customs · PAYE Manual

Departures from the UK

When an employee qualifies for code NT by way of provisional relief for SED (see PAYE81660) or in accordance with PAYE81665, send a covering letter to the employer with the notice of NT coding to confirm that

  • Code NT should operate on earnings paid to the employee for work done abroad from

  • In the year of departure, the date the employee was sent abroad

  • The 6 April of the year following departure

  • For the rest of that tax year the employer may run separate PAYE records (each operating cumulatively) on the UK pay paid up to departure and after departure - this means that two separate forms P14 / FPS (end of year documents) must be used for the year of departure from the UK

  • You must be told immediately when the overseas contract ends

  • Code NT must be withdrawn when the employee returns and the emergency code operated on a Week 1 / Month 1 basis instead