HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has announced that employers with fewer than 50 staff will no longer be able to fill in their returns on paper.
The important changes to the pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) system mean that employer annual returns must be completed online by the 19 May deadline.
Companies must register for the service before they can complete the process, and further help on how to do it can be found on the HMRC website.
Under the changes, employers are liable for penalties if their PAYE sum is not received on time and in full - with the price calculated as a percentage of the amount that was late.
HMRC's Stephen Banyard noted that the modifications were only a matter of weeks away and so businesses had to be prepared for them.
The organisation recently stated that if people wanted to comment on the consultation paper Working with Tax Agents they needed to do it by the end of the month.
