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title: "How do I reconcile my payroll at the tax year end?"
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# How do I reconcile my payroll at the tax year end?

The **Real Time Information (RTI)** process has eliminated the need for a year-end reconciliation as you will have been reconciling and paying over exactly what is determined via the **FPS** and **EPS** submissions.

Within **Cintra iQ**, the system the reconciliation is between the physical payments recorded to both employees and HMRC and the actual payments made.

If you are using **Cintra iQ’s BACS** processing to make payments then the room for error is eliminated.

If you are not using **Cintra iQ’s BACS** processing tool for paying **HMRC,** you will have reconciled period by period as you moved through the tax year.

When you use the **Cintra iQ** functionality to pay **HMRC** after you have closed a period, **Cintra iQ** automatically produces the **P32 Report** and a detailed breakdown of all records included in the run. If you don’t make payments to HM Revenue & Customs through Cintra iQ, you still need to use this functionality to produce the EPS and check that the P32 report balances with you internal payment records.

## When should I produce the payroll analysis summary report?

The **Payroll Analysis Summary Report**, which is the central control document in **Cintra iQ**, should be produced at the close of each period. This report should be used to check that the totals paid out agree with the amounts actually paid.

## How should I make manual payments?

If you operate any manual process to put figures into a payment system to raise payment to **HMRC**, it is always possible that the figures may be transposed incorrectly, or the wrong figures may be collected. e.g. **Maternity Pay** – taking the gross value rather than the value net of any deductions (rebates etc.).

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** It is advised that you mimic payment to HMRC using Cintra iQ’s payment functionality so that you can produce the P32 report. This should be reconciled to your payments system on a regular basis.