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Calculate an employee’s maternity pay (SMP), paternity or adoption pay, relevant period and average weekly earnings
Relief from Capital Gains Tax (CGT) when you sell your home - Private Residence Relief, time away from your home, what to do if you have 2 homes, nominating a home, Letting Relief
Claim up to £5,000 off your employer's National Insurance (NI), who is eligible, how to claim using your payroll software.
When your company or organisation pays Corporation Tax - paying, reporting and dormant companies
Workplace pensions and automatic enrolment - how you're affected, how pensions are protected, what happens if you move job or go on maternity leave and how to opt out
Income Tax on payments from pensions, tax-free allowances, how you pay tax on pensions.
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) calculator - calculate SSP for an employee
Find out if, and how, you need to register with HMRC when you start employing people.
Who's entitled to the minimum wage, what's included when working out the minimum wage, and what happens if there's a dispute.
Employer guide to Statutory Sick Pay - SSP rates, form SSP1, eligibility, fit notes (formerly sick notes), recover statutory pay.
Employer guide to Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - rates, eligibility, notice period, form SMP1, recover statutory pay
Understand the letters and numbers in your employee's tax codes, know when to update someone's tax code
Claim capital allowances so your business pays less tax when you buy assets - equipment, fixtures, business cars, plant and machinery, annual investment allowance, first-year allowances.
Plan your retirement income - State Pension, improve your pension, pay National Insurance, check your State Pension age
Accounts for Companies House and Company Tax Returns for HMRC - what you must send, deadlines, filing separately or together
Running a limited company - including directors' responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company
Minimum working age and pay for children, how to apply for performance licences and what local council bylaws say about employing children, paying someone over 16
What new employers need to do for PAYE, including choosing whether to run payroll yourself, paying someone for the first time and keeping records.
Personal pensions, stakeholder pensions, SIPPs
As an employer, you might need to report any expenses or benefits you provide to employees - tax and National Insurance (NI) payments
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