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As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly file your PAYE Full Payment Submission.

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

Can you do it?

15 minutesto a draft.

1 hourto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ita professional

What the alternative costsThe listed tools data gives no price for a payroll bureau or accountant, so no alternative price is stated.

If this goes wrong, employees can be paid incorrectly and your employer may need to correct the submission and deal with HMRC consequences.

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 1 hour until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the current PAYE and Full Payment Submission guidance on GOV.UK, and save the relevant pages or documents for reference.
    2. Export the payroll-period report from your payroll system, including each employee's pay, deductions, tax, National Insurance, pension information and payment date.
    3. Gather the current employee records, tax codes, starter or leaver information, statutory payments and any payroll adjustments for that period.
    4. Paste the GOV.UK guidance extracts and the payroll information into a chatbot with the supplied prompt, removing unnecessary personal identifiers.
    5. Ask the chatbot to produce the missing-information list, reconciliation table and submission checklist without changing any figures.
    6. Compare every drafted total and employee line with the payroll system's report, then resolve flagged differences in the payroll system rather than editing the chatbot's copy.
    7. Have your payroll professional or experienced payroll colleague check the final payroll report and FPS settings, then submit the FPS through your authorised payroll software or agent.

    Prompt

    Help me prepare, but do not file, a UK PAYE Full Payment Submission. Use only the payroll information and official GOV.UK or HMRC guidance that I provide. Do not invent, estimate or infer any figures, tax codes, employee details, payment dates or deductions. First list the information needed for the FPS and identify anything missing or inconsistent. Then produce a clearly labelled draft checklist and reconciliation table covering each employee's gross pay, deductions, net pay, tax, National Insurance, pension deductions and payment date, using the exact figures supplied. Flag any item that needs a payroll professional's decision. Do not give legal or tax advice, do not claim the draft is compliant, and do not submit anything to HMRC. End with a list of checks I must complete in payroll software before an authorised person submits the FPS.

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

What it gets wrong

  • A normal chatbot cannot access your HMRC employer account or make the authorised RTI submission.
  • It cannot establish whether every tax code, statutory payment and deduction is current and correctly applied.
  • It cannot take responsibility for the employer's filing accuracy, payment date or HMRC consequences.
  • It cannot replace payroll software's controlled calculations, audit trail and submission confirmation.
  • It cannot resolve an unusual payroll case without a payroll professional deciding how the rules apply.

What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, verification cost and stakes of error.

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 PAYE Full Payment Submission?
No, not by itself. A chatbot can help organise payroll information and prepare checks, but an authorised person must use suitable payroll software or an agent to submit the FPS, and the employer remains responsible.
Can AI do my PAYE payroll?
Partly. AI can help reconcile figures, identify missing information and explain the structure of an FPS, but it should not be trusted to decide tax treatment or replace payroll software and human authorisation.
What information do I need for a PAYE FPS?
You normally need the payroll-period employee records, pay and deduction figures, tax and National Insurance information, payment date, tax codes and relevant starter, leaver or statutory-payment details. Confirm the current requirements against GOV.UK and your payroll software before preparing the submission.
Do I need an accountant to file a PAYE FPS?
You do not necessarily need an accountant, but someone competent in payroll must check and authorise the figures before submission. This is not professional advice, and a serious or unusual payroll case needs an accountant or qualified payroll professional.

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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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