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How to pay PAYE and National Insurance for employers, including Construction Industry Scheme, student loan deductions, reference numbers, bank details, deadlines and payment booklets.
Find out if you need to apply for probate to deal with the estate of someone who’s died. Discover how to apply for probate or letters of administration and what to do if there’s no will.
Choosing a legal structure when you're starting a business: the differences between being a sole trader and a limited company, including legal risk, registration and taxes.
Fit notes (formerly sick notes), holiday during sick leave, returning to work, long-term sick, dismissals
Estimate the Child Benefit you've received and your High Income Child Benefit tax charge
How to tell HMRC if there's a change to your personal details - address, name, income, marital status, gender
Enrol and use HMRC's PAYE Online service to send payroll information to HMRC, to view the balance of what you owe, and to access tax codes and notices about your employees
Inheritance Tax (IHT) is paid when a person's estate is worth more than £325,000 when they die - exemptions, passing on property. Sometimes known as death duties.
When you start repaying your student loan, your monthly repayments, what to do if you have 2 jobs or are self-employed, how to get a refund if you've overpaid.
File your Company Tax Return with HMRC, and your company accounts with Companies House
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company.
Apply for your first National Insurance number - you must have the right to live and work in the UK.
Become a sole trader with HM Revenue and Customs - your legal responsibilities if you run a business as a self-employed sole trader.
What you need to do if you start working for yourself.
Marriage Allowance allows you to transfer some of your Personal Allowance to your husband, wife or civil partner: what you get and how to apply for free.
How to register for VAT, change your details, cancel your registration, register for VAT in EU countries.
Tax free saving for your first home and later life: what is a LISA, who can apply, 25% government bonus, withdrawal charges.
Sign in to the Construction Industry Scheme online service to file your contractor monthly returns or verify a subcontractor.
Log in to HMRC's Stamp Taxes Online service to file your SDLT return as a solicitor, agent or legal conveyancer
What Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is, how to work it out, current CGT rates and how to pay.
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