After you configure the 2026 rates, request Revenue Payroll Notifications (RPNs) for all employees under each employer registration number before running your first payroll of 2026.
📌Note: If you receive no 2026 RPN for an employee or if the tax credits on the 2026 RPN are zero, you can't use the 2025 RPN.
RPN for current tax year
To retrieve your 2026 RPNs for the current tax year, follow the steps below in Portal.
📌Note: If no RPN is available, payroll applies PAYE and USC on an emergency basis.
Click Uploads then under Irish Statutory Uploads,click Load Employee PAYE Certificates.
Run the following:
🤓Tip: Ensure the Company Date Last Updated field is left blank.
Retrieve New Employee RPNs.
Print Revenue Exceptions.
Maintain Employee RPNs.
Update Employee RPNs.
Exemption order
An employee with an exemption order will revert to emergency tax and USC rates until you retrieve their 2026 RPN. To review the RPN, follow the steps below.
Click Employee then in the search field, search for employee.
Beside the relevant employee, click VIEW.
Click Tax Details.
Exclusion order
Apply the exclusion order for an employee until you receive their new RPN. If the employee has a single year tax cert exclusion order, revert to the emergency basic rate until you receive the 2026 RPN.
To review exclusion orders for all employees, follow the steps below.
Click Manage Payroll then highlight the relevant pay group.
Click the Outputs tab then click ROS.
Click PAYE Modernisation then click Employee Parameters.
For the employee you've received exclusion orders for, click Exclusion Order.
Click Save.