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We have a client who has an employer NI exemption in place. 
 So contributions are as per Table A except that no employers NI is due on any amount earned. 
 Cannot seem to edit the legislation tables any more in the Sage 50 payroll company in the tables from within legislation ? 
 Any ideas, currently have to set it to calculate export the payments, then set the employees to be manual calcuations, then have to manually put in the correct employee NI for each and every employee? every payroll run ? Any ideas why you can no longer override the table values in legislation ? 
 
 Regards 
 Ade

Andy Rickeard · Answer

Hi Ade, Thanks for using Sage City. You're right that the legislation tables can't be edited. This change came about when directors got their own primary thresholds compared to regular employees. A s part of that we changed how the NI worked and as a result made it so they were locked down as there should be no need to change the legislation. 
 As a workaround, you could: 
 
 Assign the employee an NI category A and enter their payments, then take note of the Employee NI value. 
 Go into the employee record and enable manual NI. You can then enter the EE NI that payroll calculated, and &pound;0 ER NI. 
 You'd need to toggle the Manual NI option each pay period for payroll to calculate the EE NI, then manually enter it with &pound;0 for ER. 
 
 Aside from this, you'd need to contact HMRC to ask if there are any alternatives in terms of how to process this with, for example if they could advise if a particular NI category would be suitable. There are no current plans to make the tables editable, but you could suggest this on the product Ideas Board > If this helps, please click Verify Answer . Regards, Andy Sage UKI

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