HMRC is offering assistance to employers to improve their PAYE information. The scheme, called Targeted Employer Support (TES), will be rolled out to at least 1,000 employers identified by HMRC as having the most issues with data quality.

TES includes tailored face-to-face visits which HMRC intends to use to assist HMRC and employers to work together to address data quality problems.

HMRC's analysis shows that the key issue is matching data sent by employers with HMRC's records. The analysis also shows that the main causes of data matching errors with HMRC records are:

• National Insurance Number (incorrect or missing)
• Date of Birth (incorrect or missing)
• Name (incomplete, misspelt or even made up)

Pilot visits have already been carried out and HMRC believe that that this face to face support makes a real difference to the quality of data received from employers and consequently will greatly assist the coming move to Real Time Information which commences a 12 month pilot from April 2012, with 300 volunteer employers.

For more information visit:-http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/rti/dip/index.htm