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How to pay a PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA), including payment methods, reference numbers, bank details and deadlines.
Work out your new employee's tax code and starter declaration to set them up on your payroll software and register them with HMRC.
When an employee leaves or retires, update your payroll, give the employee a P45.
Use the employment history consent form to let HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) exchange and disclose information with your solicitor.
Tell HMRC if you stop employing people, cancel your PAYE scheme, report a temporary gap in paying staff
Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC
Correct mistakes with pay and deductions including National Insurance (NI), amend errors in FPS payroll reports, correct payments to HMRC.
What you can do if an employee is called up for jury service, and how to sort out their pay or help them claim an allowance
Check if you’ll pay tax or National Insurance on the 'termination payment' you may get when leaving a job.
Use form SPP1 if you're an employer and need to tell an employee why they aren't entitled to receive Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP).
Employer guide to Statutory Adoption Pay and Leave - entitlement, eligibility, notice period, proof of adoption, recover statutory pay
Use form P11D WS6 if you’re an employer and need to work out the cash equivalent of providing mileage allowance to an employee or director.
Your employee can take Shared Parental Leave (SPL) if they're eligible and they or their partner ends their maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, starting SPL, splitting blocks of leave and record�
Use form P11D WS4 if you're an employer and need to work out the cash equivalent of providing loans to an employee.
Update your payroll records when an employee reaches State Pension age so they stop paying National Insurance
Use form P11D WS3 if you're an employer and need to work out the cash equivalent of providing an employee with private use of company vans.
Use form SSP2 if you're an employer and need to record details of an employee's sickness absences for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP).
Set up a Payroll Giving scheme for your employees using PAYE - when to make deductions, costs of running the scheme, which charities are eligible and what they must do when they get the donation
End-of-year tasks, P60 form, report expenses and benefits, send last FPS to HMRC, prepare for new tax year.
Run payroll for married women or widowers paying less National Insurance, forms CA4139, CF383, CF380A, use NI category letter B or E, when to stop deducting the reduced rate
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