Release 4.15.00

Version

4.15.00

Released

Mar 25

Summary

This release of Capital Gold Payroll provides the necessary legislative changes to process in the 2025/26 tax year.

Statutory Neonatal Care Pay/Leave (SNCP)

HMRC is introducing a new statutory allowance, Statutory Neonatal Care Pay/Leave (SNCP), on behalf of the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), effective from 6 April 2025. This entitlement will provide financial support for eligible parents whose newborns require neonatal care within the first 28 days following birth.

Parents who have not been employed by the employer for more than 26 weeks still have day one rights for the leave element of up to 12 weeks.

This allowance is intended to enhance existing statutory entitlements, such as maternity and paternity leave, offering additional support during this critical time.

SNCP is managed through a manual process, to achieve this, a new SNCP tab is provided within the Statutory Payments form. SNCP payments will then be included in the P32, FPS and EPS with the new fields displayed in the To-Date form, payroll reports etc.

Place of Work Postcode

For the 2025/26 tax year, HMRC have introduced the requirement to record the Postcode of the workplace in the Full Payment Submission (FPS) where the employee has a NI Code relating to either a Freeport or Investment Zone scheme.

RTI Updates

• Updated the FPS schema for the 2025/2026 tax year in line with government legislation.

• Updated the EPS schema for submissions relating to the 2025/2026 tax year.

• Amended the EYFPS schema for submissions relating to the 2024/2025 tax year.

PAYE Legislation

Updated the system with the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates for the 2025/2026 tax year.

Modified the system with the tax, NI, and statutory payment rates for the 2025/2026 tax year.

Other Improvements

A new P60 layout for year-end 2024/2025 is now available.