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Basic PAYE Tools user guide

Get step by step help to run your payroll and change payroll details using Basic PAYE Tools.

Updates to this page

From:
HM Revenue & Customs
Published:
12 June 2014
Last updated:
21 July 2026
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  1. How to use Basic PAYE Tools section Calculate statutory payment has been updated to include Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay — Northern Ireland (SPBP-NIRE).

  2. Removed information on recording Statutory Sick Pay, changing details for tax year 2019 to 2020 and earlier, and added instructions for Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) to reflect fiscal year end changes 2026 to 2027.

  3. Information added about how to restore data. Welsh translation has been added.

  4. HMRC no longer sends printed payment booklets (P30BC). You can still pay tax you owe from the tax year 6 April 2023 to 5 April 2024 at your bank or building society using a payment booklet, if you already have one. To pay tax for the current tax year, you must choose another way to pay.

  5. Basic PAYE Tools information updated for 2020 to 2021 tax year.

  6. Basic PAYE Tools information updated for 2020 to 2021 tax year.

  7. Basic PAYE Tools information updated for 2019 to 2020 tax year.

  8. Basic PAYE Tools information updated for 2018 to 2019 tax year.

  9. Annual updates 2017-2018 have been carried out.

  10. Updated guidance available.

  11. Essential updates to the Basic PAYE Tool User Guide for various tasks including information regarding auto enrolement.

  12. Full instructions have been added to the Basic PAYE Tool User Guide for the tasks relating to annual reporting PAYE in Real Time Information.

  13. Basic PAYE Tools information updated for 2014 to 2015 tax year.

  14. First published.

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This guide gives you step by step help to run your payroll using  Basic PAYE Tools as an employer with fewer than 10 employees.  

All Basic PAYE Tools user guides are updated only when there are major changes. They may not be updated yearly.

You must register with HMRC for PAYE Online as an employer before you use Basic PAYE Tools to run your payroll calculations and submissions.

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