Direct earnings attachment - how to account for it

Hi,

How do I account for a DEA payment?

Thank you.

Hello @dipens

The support team are not registered accountants and would not be able to answer this.

I would reccomend consulting with your accountant but I will leave this thread open as there are some accountants on the forum who may wish to comment

On the QuickFile side you’d just record it in a similar way to how you do pension payments - create a liability nominal code representing DWP, then in your payroll journal assign the deduction amount for the attachment as a credit to that nominal code. When you come to make the payment or payments to DWP you’d tag the money out from your bank account as “something not on the list” and assign it to the same DWP nominal code to offset the liability.