Amend an employment information return

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Employing staff Dates

JAN 20

Employer deductions payment due for 1 to 15 January for large employers.
JAN 20

Employer deductions payment due for December for small to medium employers.
JAN 20

Your FBT quarterly return and payment are due for the period ending 31 December if you have a March balance date.

All Employing staff dates

You can amend an employment information return after you've submitted it. For a particular payday you can:

amend an employee's details
add a new employee
remove an employee.

Gather your information

For each employee you want to amend details for, you will need their:

full name, IRD number and tax code
employment start date (if new employee)
employment end date (if departing employee)
pay period start and end dates
pay cycle
payday date
gross earnings
earnings not liable for ACC earners’ levy
lump sum acknowledgement
employer deductions, which may include PAYE, withholding tax, child support, student loan or KiwiSaver.

After logging into myIR, go to Payroll

Select the pay period you want to amend

You can do this under the Recent periods tab.

Select File or amend return

Select View or Amend Return

From here you can:

Amend an employee's details for this pay period

Choose the employee's name, then 'Amend'

Add a new employee for this pay period

Choose 'Add additional line item(s)'

Remove an employee for this pay period

Choose 'Removing line item' then 'Yes'

You need to check and declare each amendment is correct.

What happens next

You do not need to resubmit the employment information return.

Your amendments will show in your myIR account in 3-5 working days.