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First time users: install and set up Basic PAYE Tools

Find step-by-step help to install Basic PAYE Tools onto your computer and set up employer and employee details.

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HM Revenue & Customs
Published
12 June 2014
Last updated
27 February 2025 — See all updates

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First time users: how to install and set up Basic PAYE Tools

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This guide will help you install Basic PAYE Tools and add an employer and employees to the tool.

All Basic PAYE Tools user guides are updated only when there are major changes to the tools. They may not be updated yearly.

As an employer you must register with HMRC for PAYE Online before you use Basic PAYE Tools to run your payroll calculations and submissions.

Updates to this page

Published 12 June 2014
Last updated 27 February 2025 show all updates

  1. Instructions to download the tools have been removed as this is covered in the linked guide 'Download HMRC's Basic PAYE Tools'.

  2. The 'First time users: how to download and install Basic PAYE Tools' has been updated for the 2022 to 2023 year.

  3. The 'First time users: how to download and install Basic PAYE Tools' has been updated for the 2021 to 2022 year.

  4. The 'First time users: how to download and install Basic PAYE Tools' has been updated for the 2020 to 2021 year.

  5. Information about where you can find your Accounts Office reference has been updated.

  6. The 'First time users: how to download and install Basic PAYE Tools' has been updated for the 2019 to 2020 year.

  7. Annual updates for 2018 to 2019 have been carried out.

  8. Annual updates for 2017 to 2018 have been carried out.

  9. Updated guidance available.

  10. This document has been updated due to changes in guidance from April 2015, such as removal of temporary SCON and introduction of Shared Parental Pay and annual uprating.

  11. First published.

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