How to submit an EPS

  1. Go to Online Services and select Send Employer Payment Summary.

  2. Select the relevant Month and Submission Type.

  3. If you are submitting an EPS because you are not paying any employees (no Tax & NIC liability), select No Employees Paid in Current Month.

  4. Select No employees will be paid in Future Months if you are submitting an EPS because you are not paying any employees in future months. Enter the relevant dates.

  1. If this is the final EPS for the tax year, select the box and choose Next.

  2. The following reminder message displays:

    "Do you want to populate the Current Month row with the month end values for (month name)? This will recalculate the cumulative year to date amounts."

    Select either Yes, No or Cancel in response to the message.

  3. Choosing Yes updates the Current Month figures on the EPS screen and ensures the figures are correct after making any alterations, for example, during a rerun of the payroll.

  4. If choosing No, the figures will not update from the last time you ran month-end processing.

  5. Choosing Cancel, returns you to the previous screen.

  6. The Employer Payment Summary screen displays showing the year-to-date amounts for each month, as required for the EPS. The Current Month row contains the amounts calculated for this month. These are added to the year-to-date values and submitted. If you need to alter these figures, for example, if you have other payrolls not run on this software, you can do so by typing into the relevant boxes.

  7. When you are happy with the Current Month values, select Print if you need a hard copy of the figures, then choose Next.

  8. Select Back to amend anything, and Send when finished.

    You may find that after completing month-end processing and sending the EPS, you need to recalculate the payroll. If so, redo month-end processing, enter the newly calculated values onto the EPS screen, and resubmit.

    Anyone using IRIS Earnie IQ or who has enabled RTI mid-year, must manually enter any Statutory Payment year-to-date values. On the EPS screen, enter the year-to-date values (inclusive of the current month figures) into the month calculated for payroll. For example, if you start using RTI in July and have a year-to-date value for SMP Recovered in June of £450, then in July SMP recovered of £100, enter £550 as the year-to-date value in the July row.