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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.

• Overview

  You must tell HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) when you take on a new…

• Check you need to pay someone through PAYE

  You usually have to pay your employees through PAYE if they earn £123 or…

• Get employee information

  You need to get certain information from your employee so you can set them…

• Student loan repayments

  You should make student loan deductions if any of the following apply:…

• Registering your new employee

  Register your new employee with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) by including…

• Late P45 or starter checklist

  You may need to update your payroll records if your employee gives you a…

Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation

The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before

Employ someone: agree a contract, right to work checks, DBS checks, workplace pensions, set up PAYE, tell HMRC

Guidance you should consider when considering the employee shareholder employment status.

• Updated: 23 November 2016

Tax and reporting rules for employers providing awards for employee suggestions

When an employee leaves or retires, update your payroll, give the employee a P45.

Use this calculator to work out employee National Insurance contributions, if you're an employee, employer, or a software developer.

• Updated: 20 December 2023

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

Find out how to work out and make PAYE deductions for employees who come to work in the UK.

• Updated: 4 November 2022

Personal data an employer can keep about an employee, and employee rights to see this information under data protection rules

Tax and reporting rules for employers who make assets available to employees

Employee rights and employer legal obligations - the Information and Consultation of Employee regulations, setting up information and consultation agreements, complaints

Tax and reporting rules for employers providing loans to employees

How to dismiss staff fairly, working within dismissal rules and dealing with dismissals relating to whistleblowing

Employer checking service (ECS): check your employee or potential employee's immigration employment status

Get your business ready to employ staff - your responsibilities as an employer, register with HMRC, set up PAYE, get insurance

Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy

Handling employees' grievances at work - setting up a grievance procedure, holding a grievance hearing and managing appeals

The employment status of au pairs, nannies, carers, personal assistants and other people who work in your home - how to tell if they're an employee or not, what happens with the National Minimum Wage, tax and National Insurance, what...