Before you can process your payroll year-end, you need to do the following.
Check if you have a week 53
📌Note: If you pay your employees monthly, you won't have a week 53, even if your normal pay date falls on these dates.
If you pay your employees weekly, fortnightly or four-weekly and your normal pay date falls on Thursday, 4 April or Friday, 5 April, you need to process a week 53.
Process your final payroll of the year
You need to ensure you've finished all normal payroll processing for the current tax year, including processing any leavers who left on or before 5 April, and you've submitted your final full payment submission (FPS) of the year.
Once you have completed all the necessary steps of the final paid period, complete period end before completing the next steps.
Final EPS
Once you've processed the final period end, if you have any statutory payments to recover, you also need to update the statutory return and submit an EPS.
Update nominals
If you need to update any nominals, we recommend you do this at this stage.
Submit P46(car)
You need to send a P46 (Car) form to HMRC if you provide company cars to your employees, stop providing a company car or provide someone with an additional car.