With effect from 1st January 2019, the issuing of P2Cs will be discontinued by Revenue and instead will be replaced with the Revenue Payroll Notification (RPN).
The Revenue Payroll Notification is to be used by employers to ensure the most up to date Revenue information is being applied to their employees' pay. It will provide employers with the necessary information to deduct the correct income tax, Universal Social Charge (USC) and Local Property Tax (LPT) from each employee every pay period.
The data contained for each employee within an RPN will thus include:
From 1st January 2019, as part of the normal payroll process, employers will first need to retrieve the latest RPN from Revenue for each of their employees in order to ensure the most up-to-date tax credits and cut off points are applied to their pay.
BrightPay facilitates the automatic retrieval of RPNs through the software from Revenue each pay period - guidance on this process can be found here.
The Employment Identifier is a new field included on the Revenue Payroll Notification.
The Employment Identifier is unique for each separate employment for an employee and will be used by Revenue to distinguish between:
Please note: the setting of this Employment Identifier will be automated in BrightPay where required.
A dual employment occurs if an employer:
The Employment Identifier will thus allow the ability to distinguish between the two employments when filing payroll submissions.
The Employment Identifier that is given to an employee must remain the same for a continuous period of employment. It cannot be changed while the same employment is active. This applies even if the employment spans consecutive tax years.
An employee who ceases working for an employer and then recommences employment with the same employer again in the same tax year will be assigned a new Employment Identifier in order to distinguish between the two different periods of employment.
The RPN number is another new field included on the Revenue Payroll Notification. This is applied by Revenue and tells the software if there has been an update to an employee’s credits etc. If an updated RPN is available, the RPN number for that employee will be incremented.
The RPN number for each employee is subsequently included in the periodic payroll submission to Revenue, so Revenue will know if the employer is using the latest RPN available for an employee or not.
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