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As an employer, you might need to report any expenses or benefits you provide to employees - tax and National Insurance (NI) payments
Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace
Reclaim Statutory Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, Parental Bereavement Pay and Shared Parental Pay, find out about Small Employers’ Relief and get help if you cannot afford payments.
Tell HMRC about changes to your business - a change of name, address, legal structure or business activity
Working out a director's National Insurance, using their annual earnings period, what to report to HMRC.
Find out how to get HMRC PAYE forms including P45, P60, starter checklist (which replaced the P46), P11D.
What to do when you disagree with a tax decision (HMRC1) - appealing against a decision, getting a review by HMRC and reasonable excuses.
If you're an employer and provide expenses or benefits to employees or directors, you might need to tell HMRC and pay tax and National Insurance on them
Use form SC3 if you're an employee, become a birth parent and need to apply to your employer for Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) and Leave.
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Find HMRC-recognised payroll software to manage your Real Time Information (RTI) PAYE payments and deductions.
Regular payroll tasks - record employee pay, calculate deductions, give payslips, report to and pay HMRC, view the balance of what you owe HMRC.
Use their P45 (or starter checklist, which replaced the P46) to get information from your new employee, set them up on your payroll software, tell HMRC.
If you provide company cars to your employees, use form P46 (Car) to tell HMRC
PAYE Settlement Agreements (PSA) allow employers to make an annual payment to HRMC for some types of expenses and benefits - apply, renew, deadlines
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
When an employee leaves or retires, update your payroll, give the employee a P45.
How to pay Class 1A National Insurance for employers, including a HMRC reference number, bank details, Faster Payments, CHAPS, Bacs, overseas payments and deadlines.
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
Use form P11D WS2 and P11D WS2b if you're an employer and need to work out the cash equivalent of providing car and fuel benefit to an employee.
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