Generally, pay runs are approved and EPS submissions occur at the usual pay date and are accepted by HMRC. However, if you approval is late, or if you undertake a rewind you may find the HMRC reject an EPS submission because it falls outside the valid date range.
In this case, we will get an error message from HMRC that tells you that the EPS submission is only valid between certain dates.
Steps #
We suggest that you first verify that the FPS has been accepted and a receipt has been recorded for the FPS.
Proceed to End the EPS report submission because you will be sending a more up-to-date information in a later EPS.
Follow the article on Handling pay run errors: exceptions steps
- 2.4. End the EPS report submission.
- 3a. Pay run: Resume report submissions (any issues have been resolved).
Usually you may find only one EPS is rejected, but depending on the dates you may find you need to repeat this process until you get to the point where your are submitting an EPS in the valid filing period.