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Guidance: Pay As You Earn (PAYE): service availability and issues

  • 18 February 2022

    Planned downtime from 9:30am to 2:30pm on Sunday 20 February 2022 has been added.

  • 3 December 2021

    Update – planned downtime on Saturday 4 December 2021 will no longer go ahead.

  • 3 December 2021

    Updated to say that from Saturday 4 December 2021 at 10.30pm to Sunday 5 December 2021 at 5.00am this service is unavailable.

  • 26 November 2021

    Planned downtime from 11:59pm Saturday 27 November 2021 to 1:37am Sunday 28 November 2021 has been added.

  • 29 September 2021

    Planned downtime from 12pm to 8pm on Wednesday 6 October 2021 has been added.

  • 9 July 2021

    The service issue which prevented Employers from requesting electronic notifications has been resolved. Information has been added to tell you what to do if you were affected by this issue.

  • 25 June 2021

    Planned downtime from 6am on Saturday 26 June to 9pm on Sunday 27 June 2021 has been added.

  • 24 June 2021

    The issue about retrieving PAYE notices has now been resolved. Customers should now be able to retrieve notices without receiving an error message.

  • 16 June 2021

    The service issue about retrieving PAYE notices has been updated.

  • 23 March 2021

    A service issue about retrieving PAYE notices has been added.

  • 12 February 2021

    Removed the planned downtime for 28 February 2021, and removed service issues details about the incorrect generic notice service and the problems viewing P6 tax coding notices for 2019 to 2020 as these issues have been resolved.

  • 12 February 2021

    Planned downtime from 1am till 7am on Sunday 28 February 2021 has been added.

  • 13 July 2020

    The service issue for the Data Provisioning Service – P6 Tax codes has been resolved.

  • 10 July 2020

    A service issue about the Data Provisioning Service – P6 Tax codes has been added.

  • 30 June 2020

    An update was added to the Service issues for the Incorrect Generic Notice Service message sent out between 26 June and 29 June 2020.

  • 14 February 2020

    The PAYE Payroll, Director’s National Insurance contributions and Employee’s National Insurance contributions calculators are unavailable from 6pm to 8pm on Sunday 16 February. Information about this issue has been added.

  • 20 January 2020

    A service issue about problems viewing P6 tax coding notices for 2019 to 2020 has been added.

  • 19 November 2019

    Planned downtime from 9pm Tuesday 19 November 2019 to 6am on Wednesday 20 November 2019 has been added.

  • 19 November 2019

    Planned downtime from 9pm Thursday 21 November 2019 to 6am on Friday 22 November 2019 has been added.

  • 12 November 2019

    Planned downtime from 9pm on Tuesday 12 November 2019 to 6am on Wednesday 13 November 2019 added.

  • 11 November 2019

    You will be unable to use the ‘view message’ part of the service from 9pm on Monday 11 November 2019 to 6am on Tuesday 12 November 2019. Information about this has been added.

  • 20 February 2019

    This service is now available.

  • 20 February 2019

    The service is currently unavailable. We are working with our IT partners to get this problem fixed. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

  • 31 January 2019

    Due to scheduled maintenance you will be unable to download tax codes and notices about your employees from 3pm on Thursday 31 January 2019 to midday on Friday 1 February 2019.

  • 31 January 2019

    Planned downtime for Thursday 31 January 2019 3pm to midday Friday 1 February 2019 has been added.

  • 29 November 2018

    Intermittent issues with retrieval of notices within PAYE PAYE Data Provisioning Service has been added to the service issues section.

  • 14 November 2018

    Service issue for retrieving notices within PAYE Data Provisioning Service has been added.

  • 14 November 2018

    Planned downtime for Wednesday 14 November 2018 9:15pm to 2:45am on Thursday 15 November 2018 has been added.

  • 8 November 2018

    Service issue for Thursday 8 November 2018 from 6pm to 11pm has been added.

  • 1 November 2018

    A service issue with the PAYE online service, affecting the retrieval of notices within PAYE DPS has been added.

  • 22 October 2018

    A service issue with the PAYE online service, affecting the retrieval of notices within PAYE DPS has been added.

  • 17 July 2018

    An update on missing P9 coding notices has been added.

  • 22 May 2018

    The service issues section has been updated.

  • 20 April 2018

    Planned downtime for Sunday 22 April has been added.

  • 5 April 2018

    The planned downtime for 6 April 2018 has been updated to end at 2am.

  • 22 March 2018

    An Issue about submissions on 19 March 2018 and 20 March 2018 has been added to the page.

  • 20 March 2018

    Service availability section amended with ‘Real Time Information submission’ message.

  • 19 March 2018

    The PAYE service will be unavailable from 11:45pm on 5 April 2018 to 8am on 6 April 2018.

  • 16 March 2018

    An update on issuing P6 coding notices has been added.

  • 1 February 2018

    An update to the service issue has been added about the delayed issue of P6 coding notices.

  • 31 January 2018

    A service issue has been added about the delayed issue of P6 coding notices.

  • 11 January 2018

    Service issues section updated with P6 files message.

  • 12 December 2017

    Service availability section updated.

  • 16 November 2017

    A service issue has been added as some customers are experiencing delayed submission responses.

  • 2 November 2017

    There is a service availability issue causing delayed Real Time Information (RTI) submission responses.

  • 5 October 2017

    Planned downtime for 13 October 2017 to 15 October 2017 added to the page.

  • 3 October 2017

    Problems filing returns for the 2016 to 2017 tax year has been resolved

  • 2 October 2017

    The service issues section has been updated.

  • 11 July 2017

    Planned downtime for 12 July 2017 has been added to this page.

  • 11 July 2017

    The service issues section has been updated.

  • 29 June 2017

    The message about Real Time Information slow responses has been removed as the problem has been fixed.

  • 21 June 2017

    Service issue about PAYE Real Time Information slow submission responses has been added.

  • 14 April 2017

    PAYE Real Time Information submissions problem has now been resolved.

  • 12 April 2017

    Under Service issues – PAYE Real Time Information submissions paragraph added.

  • 5 April 2017

    Planned downtime has been added to this page.

  • 22 December 2016

    The Service issues section has been updated.

  • 11 November 2016

    Information on decommissioning the Electronic Data Interchange channel published.

  • 14 September 2016

    Information on PAYE accounts not showing the latest position has been updated.

  • 1 September 2016

    Information on submitting Real Time Information (RTI) data for employees with National Insurance numbers with prefix ‘KC’ has been updated.

  • 30 August 2016

    Agents unable to log in to their online account issue updated to show the problem has now been resolved.

  • 24 August 2016

    The ‘Agents unable to log in to their online account’ message has been updated.

  • 11 August 2016

    Service issue message has been added to the page.

  • 28 July 2016

    The message for ‘Data Provisioning Service (DPS)’ has been updated to advise users the issue is now resolved.

  • 22 July 2016

    Data Provisioning Service message added to Service Issues section.

  • 14 April 2016

    Service issues section has been updated.

  • 15 March 2016

    Service issues section has been updated.

  • 10 March 2016

    Service issues section has been updated.

  • 24 December 2015

    Service issues section has been updated.

  • 23 September 2015

    Planned downtime has been added to this page.

  • 2 September 2015

    Latest updates on creating a new Government Gateway account.

  • 1 January 2014

    First published.

  • 18 February 2022

    Planned downtime from 9:30am to 2:30pm on Sunday 20 February 2022 has been added.

  • 3 December 2021

    Update – planned downtime on Saturday 4 December 2021 will no longer go ahead.

  • 3 December 2021

    Updated to say that from Saturday 4 December 2021 at 10.30pm to Sunday 5 December 2021 at 5.00am this service is unavailable.

  • 26 November 2021

    Planned downtime from 11:59pm Saturday 27 November 2021 to 1:37am Sunday 28 November 2021 has been added.

  • 29 September 2021

    Planned downtime from 12pm to 8pm on Wednesday 6 October 2021 has been added.

  • 9 July 2021

    The service issue which prevented Employers from requesting electronic notifications has been resolved. Information has been added to tell you what to do if you were affected by this issue.

  • 25 June 2021

    Planned downtime from 6am on Saturday 26 June to 9pm on Sunday 27 June 2021 has been added.

  • 24 June 2021

    The issue about retrieving PAYE notices has now been resolved. Customers should now be able to retrieve notices without receiving an error message.

  • 16 June 2021

    The service issue about retrieving PAYE notices has been updated.

  • 23 March 2021

    A service issue about retrieving PAYE notices has been added.

  • 12 February 2021

    Removed the planned downtime for 28 February 2021, and removed service issues details about the incorrect generic notice service and the problems viewing P6 tax coding notices for 2019 to 2020 as these issues have been resolved.

  • 12 February 2021

    Planned downtime from 1am till 7am on Sunday 28 February 2021 has been added.

  • 13 July 2020

    The service issue for the Data Provisioning Service – P6 Tax codes has been resolved.

  • 10 July 2020

    A service issue about the Data Provisioning Service – P6 Tax codes has been added.

  • 30 June 2020

    An update was added to the Service issues for the Incorrect Generic Notice Service message sent out between 26 June and 29 June 2020.

  • 14 February 2020

    The PAYE Payroll, Director’s National Insurance contributions and Employee’s National Insurance contributions calculators are unavailable from 6pm to 8pm on Sunday 16 February. Information about this issue has been added.

  • 20 January 2020

    A service issue about problems viewing P6 tax coding notices for 2019 to 2020 has been added.

  • 19 November 2019

    Planned downtime from 9pm Tuesday 19 November 2019 to 6am on Wednesday 20 November 2019 has been added.

  • 19 November 2019

    Planned downtime from 9pm Thursday 21 November 2019 to 6am on Friday 22 November 2019 has been added.

  • 12 November 2019

    Planned downtime from 9pm on Tuesday 12 November 2019 to 6am on Wednesday 13 November 2019 added.

  • 11 November 2019

    You will be unable to use the ‘view message’ part of the service from 9pm on Monday 11 November 2019 to 6am on Tuesday 12 November 2019. Information about this has been added.

  • 20 February 2019

    This service is now available.

  • 20 February 2019

    The service is currently unavailable. We are working with our IT partners to get this problem fixed. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

  • 31 January 2019

    Due to scheduled maintenance you will be unable to download tax codes and notices about your employees from 3pm on Thursday 31 January 2019 to midday on Friday 1 February 2019.

  • 31 January 2019

    Planned downtime for Thursday 31 January 2019 3pm to midday Friday 1 February 2019 has been added.

  • 29 November 2018

    Intermittent issues with retrieval of notices within PAYE PAYE Data Provisioning Service has been added to the service issues section.

  • 14 November 2018

    Service issue for retrieving notices within PAYE Data Provisioning Service has been added.

  • 14 November 2018

    Planned downtime for Wednesday 14 November 2018 9:15pm to 2:45am on Thursday 15 November 2018 has been added.

  • 8 November 2018

    Service issue for Thursday 8 November 2018 from 6pm to 11pm has been added.

  • 1 November 2018

    A service issue with the PAYE online service, affecting the retrieval of notices within PAYE DPS has been added.

  • 22 October 2018

    A service issue with the PAYE online service, affecting the retrieval of notices within PAYE DPS has been added.

  • 17 July 2018

    An update on missing P9 coding notices has been added.

  • 22 May 2018

    The service issues section has been updated.

  • 20 April 2018

    Planned downtime for Sunday 22 April has been added.

  • 5 April 2018

    The planned downtime for 6 April 2018 has been updated to end at 2am.

  • 22 March 2018

    An Issue about submissions on 19 March 2018 and 20 March 2018 has been added to the page.

  • 20 March 2018

    Service availability section amended with ‘Real Time Information submission’ message.

  • 19 March 2018

    The PAYE service will be unavailable from 11:45pm on 5 April 2018 to 8am on 6 April 2018.

  • 16 March 2018

    An update on issuing P6 coding notices has been added.

  • 1 February 2018

    An update to the service issue has been added about the delayed issue of P6 coding notices.

  • 31 January 2018

    A service issue has been added about the delayed issue of P6 coding notices.

  • 11 January 2018

    Service issues section updated with P6 files message.

  • 12 December 2017

    Service availability section updated.

  • 16 November 2017

    A service issue has been added as some customers are experiencing delayed submission responses.

  • 2 November 2017

    There is a service availability issue causing delayed Real Time Information (RTI) submission responses.

  • 5 October 2017

    Planned downtime for 13 October 2017 to 15 October 2017 added to the page.

  • 3 October 2017

    Problems filing returns for the 2016 to 2017 tax year has been resolved

  • 2 October 2017

    The service issues section has been updated.

  • 11 July 2017

    Planned downtime for 12 July 2017 has been added to this page.

  • 11 July 2017

    The service issues section has been updated.

  • 29 June 2017

    The message about Real Time Information slow responses has been removed as the problem has been fixed.

  • 21 June 2017

    Service issue about PAYE Real Time Information slow submission responses has been added.

  • 14 April 2017

    PAYE Real Time Information submissions problem has now been resolved.

  • 12 April 2017

    Under Service issues – PAYE Real Time Information submissions paragraph added.

  • 5 April 2017

    Planned downtime has been added to this page.

  • 22 December 2016

    The Service issues section has been updated.

  • 11 November 2016

    Information on decommissioning the Electronic Data Interchange channel published.

  • 14 September 2016

    Information on PAYE accounts not showing the latest position has been updated.

  • 1 September 2016

    Information on submitting Real Time Information (RTI) data for employees with National Insurance numbers with prefix ‘KC’ has been updated.

  • 30 August 2016

    Agents unable to log in to their online account issue updated to show the problem has now been resolved.

  • 24 August 2016

    The ‘Agents unable to log in to their online account’ message has been updated.

  • 11 August 2016

    Service issue message has been added to the page.

  • 28 July 2016

    The message for ‘Data Provisioning Service (DPS)’ has been updated to advise users the issue is now resolved.

  • 22 July 2016

    Data Provisioning Service message added to Service Issues section.

  • 14 April 2016

    Service issues section has been updated.

  • 15 March 2016

    Service issues section has been updated.

  • 10 March 2016

    Service issues section has been updated.

  • 24 December 2015

    Service issues section has been updated.

  • 23 September 2015

    Planned downtime has been added to this page.

  • 2 September 2015

    Latest updates on creating a new Government Gateway account.

  • 1 January 2014

    First published.