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Get help if you're an employer by using videos and webinars from HMRC.
Available webinars are listed by subject and can last up to an hour.
To attend an upcoming live webinar, register and sign in at least 5 minutes before it starts.
You can ask your host questions during live webinars using the on-screen text box.
Regular updates from HMRC
Sign up for the employer email alert service to receive important updates from HMRC, it will also tell you when a new employer bulletin is available.
Getting started as an employer
Watch YouTube videos about:
- help for new employers
- running a small business
Catch up with the latest available webinar about getting started as an employer to find out about:
- registering with HMRC
- taking on your first employee
- running payroll
- paying tax and National Insurance to HMRC
Register for the next live webinar about getting started as an employer.
Use the online guide on becoming an employer to find out about:
- taking on staff
- running a payroll
- sick pay and end-of-year tasks
- what to do when an employee leaves
Employer filing obligations
Catch up with the latest available webinar about employer filing obligations to find out how and when to send a FPS and Employer Payment Summary (EPS) to HMRC.
Register for the next live webinar about employer filing obligations.
Expenses and benefits
Introduction
Catch up with the latest available webinar for an introduction to expenses and benefits to find out about:
- paying expenses to employees
- providing benefits
Register for the next live webinar for an introduction to expenses and benefits.
Register for the next live webinar about expenses and benefits for case studies of providing employees with vouchers, medical insurance, paying personal bills and using credit cards.
Company cars and fuel
Catch up with the latest available webinar about company cars and fuel to find out about the details you need to keep for the cars and fuel:
- used by your employees
- available for private use
Register for the next live webinar about company cars and fuel.
Company vans
Catch up with the latest available webinar about company vans to find out:
- how to account for tax and National Insurance
- where to go for further help
Employee travel
Find out about:
- travel and subsistence payments
- mileage payments for employees using their own vehicle
Register for the next live webinar about employee travel.
Mileage
Catch up with the latest available mileage webinar for employers who make mileage payments to employees, who use their own vehicles, to find out:
- what a business journey is
- your reporting responsibilities
Travel and subsistence
Catch up with the latest available travel and subsistence webinar to find out about your tax, National Insurance and reporting responsibilities for your employees, when you’re:
- providing travel
- reimbursing travel
- providing overnight accommodation
Phones, internet and homeworking
Catch up with the latest available webinar on the tax and National insurance treatment where an employer provides a mobile phone, an internet connection or homeworking expenses.
Register for the next live webinar about phones, internet and homeworking.
Trivial benefits
Catch up with the latest available webinar about providing trivial benefits to employees. Find out what is meant by trivial benefits and the conditions that have to be met.
Register for the next live webinar about trivial benefits
Entertaining staff
Catch up with the latest available webinar about expenses and benefits for entertaining staff to find out about tax and National Insurance when providing:
- free or subsidised tea, coffee or meals at work
- social functions for your employees
Register for the next live webinar about entertaining staff.
Medical insurance
Catch up with the latest available medical insurance webinar to find out about your tax, National Insurance and reporting responsibilities.
Personal bills
Catch up with the latest available personal bills webinar to find out:
- what an employee’s personal bill is
- your tax, National Insurance and reporting responsibilities
Vouchers and debit or credit cards
Catch up with the latest available voucher and debit or credit cards webinar to find out your tax, National Insurance and reporting responsibilities.
PAYE: end of year expenses and benefits (P11D)
Register for the next live webinar which covers the most common entries on the end of year expenses and benefits return (P11D).
Payrolling: tax employee’s benefits through your payroll
Catch up with the latest available webinar about payrolling benefits in kind to find out about tax and National Insurance on:
- payrolling expenses
- benefits
Register for the next live webinar about payrolling benefits in kind.
Payroll
Watch YouTube videos about:
- setting up your payroll for the new tax year
- deducting the right tax from employees’ pay
- payroll software and sending reports to HMRC
Catch up with the latest available webinar about payroll and how to give HMRC accurate information.
Register for the next live webinar about getting payroll information right.
The National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage
Use the online guide on paying your workers the minimum wage to find out more about the:
- National Minimum Wage
- National Living Wage
Employment status
Catch up with the latest available webinar about employment status to find out:
- what you have to do if you’re employing or engaging someone
- about applying the correct employment status
Penalties
Watch a YouTube video about paying tax at the right time.
Catch up with the latest available webinar about how to avoid in-year penalties to find out:
- when penalties are charged
- how to avoid in-year penalties for late and non-filing
Register for the next live webinar about how to avoid in-year penalties.
Statutory pay
Statutory Sick Pay
Catch up with the latest available webinar about Statutory Sick Pay to find out about:
- what happens when an employee is off sick
- deciding when to pay Statutory Sick Pay
- how to calculate Statutory Sick Pay
Register for the next live webinar about Statutory Sick Pay.
Managing sick leave and Statutory Sick Pay
Register for the next live joint webinar with ACAS to find out about:
- managing both short and continuous sickness absence
- dismissal
- mental health and much more
Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Paternity Pay
Catch up with the latest available webinar about Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Paternity Pay to find out about:
- pay for employees who’ve had or are having a baby
- what payments you can make
- how to calculate payments
Shared Parental Leave and Pay
Catch up with the latest available webinar about Shared Parental Leave and Pay to find out about entitlements for parents.
Register for the next live webinar about Shared Parental Leave and Pay.
Responsibilities when your business grows
Catch up with the latest available webinar from HMRC and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to find out about your responsibilities as your business grows for:
- health and safety
- reporting tax and National Insurance
Register for the next live webinar from HMRC and HSE.
Published 6 October 2017
Last updated 25 April 2018 + show all updates
Last updated 25 April 2018 + show all updates
- The latest webinars about penalties, expenses and benefits, travel and subsistence, entertaining staff and Statutory Sick Pay have been added, as well as details of a new webinar about managing sick leave and Statutory Sick Pay.
- New webinars about expenses and benefits and your responsibilities when your business grows have been added.
- The webinars for 'what’s new for 2018' and 'employer filing obligations' have been re-recorded because of important new information affecting employers.
- The latest webinars about reporting PAYE to HMRC, employer filing obligations, phones, internet and homeworking and trivial benefits have been added.
- The latest webinars about what's new for 2018, company vans and payrolling benefits in kind have been added.
- The latest webinars about The National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage have been updated.
- The latest available webinars have been added for expenses and benefits, payrolling benefits in kind and company cars and fuel.
- Register for the next live HMRC and Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) joint webinar about managing sick leave and statutory sick pay.
- Register for the next live webinar about the National Living wage and the National Minimum wage.
- First published.