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As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly file your PAYE Employer Payment Summary.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

15 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ita professional

What the alternative costsNo price for a payroll filing alternative is provided in the supplied commercial data.

If it is wrong, HMRC records may be wrong and you may have to correct the submission or deal with employer liabilities.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the current GOV.UK guidance for Employer Payment Summaries and the EPS section of your payroll software or Basic PAYE Tools.
    2. Gather the payroll reports, payment records, scheme details, and the documented reason for sending the EPS for the relevant tax year.
    3. Remove employee names, National Insurance numbers, bank details, passwords, and other unnecessary personal data from the records.
    4. Paste the anonymised facts into the prompt and ask the chatbot to produce the checklist and draft EPS answers with a source record for each answer.
    5. Compare every proposed answer and figure with the payroll reports and the current GOV.UK guidance, and ask your payroll professional about any missing, contradictory, or unclear item.
    6. Enter the confirmed answers into your payroll software or Basic PAYE Tools, check the final on-screen summary against the records, and submit the EPS yourself through the authorised HMRC route.

    Prompt

    Help me prepare a UK PAYE Employer Payment Summary for [tax year] using the facts below. Do not file anything, access HMRC, invent figures, or decide that a claim applies without evidence. First list the information and payroll records needed for the relevant EPS reason. Then identify any missing or contradictory facts. Then produce a draft table showing each relevant EPS question, the proposed answer, the source record supporting it, and the reason for the answer. Use only the information I provide and clearly label anything that needs confirmation against current GOV.UK guidance or my payroll software. Do not include employee names, National Insurance numbers, bank details, login details, or other unnecessary personal data. Facts and records: [paste anonymised facts and figures here]

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot authenticate to your HMRC account or take responsibility for submitting the EPS.
  • AI cannot see payroll adjustments, scheme history, or records that you have not supplied.
  • AI cannot resolve an ambiguous payroll situation without a person establishing the underlying facts.
  • AI cannot carry the employer's liability if the EPS is incorrect.
  • AI cannot make a difficult filing safe merely by presenting the answer in a completed-looking table.

What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, private data access and verification cost.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output1
Inputs1
Verification1
Liability0
Effort delta1
Total4 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT file my Employer Payment Summary?
No, not directly. It can help prepare the information and draft answers, but you must enter and submit the EPS through your authorised payroll software or Basic PAYE Tools, and the employer remains responsible.
Can AI complete an EPS for HMRC?
Partly. AI can organise your payroll evidence and produce a draft, but it cannot reliably know whether the figures are complete or whether a particular EPS reason applies without your records and a human check.
Is it safe to use AI for a PAYE filing?
Use it for preparation, not as the final authority. This is not professional advice, and a serious or unclear case needs a payroll professional or accountant to check the facts and the final submission.
What information do I need for an Employer Payment Summary?
You need the relevant payroll records, the reason for sending the EPS, the applicable scheme details, and the figures requested by the current HMRC guidance and your payroll software. Ask AI to turn those records into a checklist, then compare the result with GOV.UK before submitting.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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