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What is the Statutory fees (ICO & CITB) page for?
Open this screen in Saral/accounts/statutory-fees
One row per company answering two legal questions: does it owe the ICO data protection fee, and does it owe the CITB levy? Saral answers each test from what it already holds — staff, pay, CIS payments, turnover, SIC codes, past payments — shows the verdict with its reasons and the fee or levy estimate at the live published rate, and a person changes any answer they disagree with. From the company's drawer the bill is raised in Xero, paid by direct debit or through the payment run. Everything here is an estimate for planning: the company decides whether it must pay, the ICO sets the fee and CITB issues the levy assessment. You enter: An overrule on any test Saral answered — Yes, No or a figure — and Use Saral's answer to hand it back; The expense account, how the fee is paid (direct debit or the payment run) and, for CITB, the accruals account; Raise bill: the reference, CITB's own levy assessment (the CITB bill is raised from the assessment, never from Saral's estimate) and an optional renewal notice, both attached to the bill in Xero; Accrue the CITB levy estimate at a journal date, usually the year end — optional. Saral fills: Each company's verdict — Payable, Register only, Not payable, Can't tell yet or Not applicable — with the reasons, the ICO tier or CITB band, and whether it is provisional; The fee and levy figures from the ICO's and CITB's own published pages, re-read every week; nothing read means not priced yet, never a guess. These are sterling by law; Open questions a record could not answer, and a Changed badge when the facts behind a decided answer have moved since; The ICO and CITB registration numbers on file, with their confirmed / unconfirmed / conflicting state and the ICO renewal date; Not applicable, with the reason, for a company the fee does not reach — a foreign subsidiary, or a person's UK-rules override. It produces: A bill in the company's Xero for the ICO fee or the CITB levy, paid by direct debit or picked up by Payment Runs; An optional CITB accrual journal from the estimate, and a read-only status card on Accreditations. Where the settings live: Registration numbers: Company Structure → Registrations. Renewal dates: Accounts → Renewals & applications. Whether a UK rule reaches a company: Settings → Companies & entities → UK rules. Seeing this page needs the Statutory fees permission; raising a bill or posting the accrual needs its posting permission. The rates have no setting at all — they are read from the publishers.
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