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Search for companies that can do Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks on your behalf (formerly Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks)
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA) and deducting any money an employee owes the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) from their pay
How to pay a PAYE late payment or filing penalty, including payment methods, reference numbers, bank account details and deadlines.
How to employ an apprentice, what's expected of you and what funding you can get.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing company cars, including fuel
Your insurance must cover you for at least £5 million - check authorised insurers and how you can be fined
Find HMRC-recognised payroll software to manage your Real Time Information (RTI) PAYE payments and deductions.
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.
Regular payroll tasks - record employee pay, calculate deductions, give payslips, report to and pay HMRC, view the balance of what you owe HMRC.
Work out your new employee's tax code and starter declaration to set them up on your payroll software and register them with HMRC.
Working out a director's National Insurance, using their annual earnings period, what to report to HMRC.
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
Checks employers might need to run on job applicants, including right to work in the UK, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS - formerly CRB) checks and health checks
What you must do by law with a deductions from earnings order (DEO or AEO) to make child maintenance deductions from your employee's pay.
You can receive an unlimited fine for employing an illegal worker - find out what happens and what you can do
Rights for interns and students in the workplace; work experience; work placements; rights to the National Minimum Wage.
If you provide company cars to your employees, use form P46 (Car) to tell HMRC
Get your business ready to employ staff - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance
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