Tax codes that contain a personal allowance may be uplifted at the start of the new tax year to reflect changes in the new tax year personal allowance. For the 21/22 Tax year the standard personal allowances has increased by 7 points to 1257L, this means an employee on 1250L last year should be "uplifted" to 1257L, an employee on 900L would become 907L.
If you receive a P9 Notification from the HMRC this overrides any uplift change. |
To simplify the uplift process ICS provides a user interface to allow employees to be updated in bulk. The tool displays a list of employees, auto selecting those eligible for uplift.
If you have configured HMRC DPS P9 Notifications for employees will now be picked up by the Tax Code Uplift Tool, you will need to check these after running this process to ensure all have been picked up correctly. If you have not got the HMRC DPS configured please follow these instructions to do this prior to running this process. |
The uplift logic works by comparing the tax code from the last payslip (linked on the employee) from the prior tax year, and the tax code on the employee record. The uplift will automatically check the employee for update if: