GOV.UK
Guidance
Help and support for employing people
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 webinars to find out about:
- getting ready to employ someone
- when and how to register as an employer
- your first employee
- running a payroll
- paying HMRC
- other employer responsibilities
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
Register for the next live webinar about employer filing obligations.
Use this webinar to find out how and when to send HMRC a:
- Full Payment Submission
- Employer Payment Summary
Expenses and benefits
Company cars, vans and fuel
Register for the next live webinar about company cars, vans and fuel to find out what records to keep and what to report to HMRC.
Employee travel
Register for the next live webinar about employee travel.
Use this webinar to find out about:
- travel and subsistence payments
- mileage payments for employees using their own vehicle
The workplace and travel
Register for the next live webinar about the workplace and travel.
Use this webinar to find out about employee travel to different types of workplace such as a temporary workplace and the effect this has on tax and National Insurance.
Phones, internet and homeworking
Register for the next live webinar about phones, internet and homeworking.
This webinar will tell you about:
- a mobile phone
- an internet connection
- homeworking expenses
Trivial benefits
Register for the next live webinar about trivial benefits to find out what is meant by trivial benefits and the conditions that have to be met.
Entertaining staff
Register for the next live webinar about 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
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
Register for the next live webinar about getting payroll information right to find out how to give HMRC accurate information.
Payrolling: tax employee’s benefits through your payroll
Register for the next live webinar about payrolling benefits in kind.
Use this webinar to find out about tax and National Insurance on:
- payrolling expenses
- benefits
The National Living Wage (NLW) and the National Minimum Wage (NMW)
Catch up with the latest webinars about how to check you’re paying the NMW correctly:
- part 1 explains when a worker is entitled to the minimum wage
- part 2 is about the different types of work for minimum wage purposes
- part 3 explains the common underpayment errors to look out for
- part 4 tells you how to put things right if you find an underpayment
In our bite sized webinar series we aim to help employers avoid common errors. Each is under 10 minutes long and covers a particular type of error.
- interns, work placements and the NMW
- apprentices and the NMW
- payments, deductions and the NMW
- unpaid working time and National Minimum Wage
- accommodation 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
Penalties
Watch a YouTube video about paying tax at the right time.
Statutory pay
Statutory Sick Pay
Use the Statutory Sick Pay online guide to find out more about:
- who can get Statutory Sick Pay
- calculating and paying Statutory Sick Pay
- what to do if an employee is not entitled to Statutory Sick Pay
- company sick pay
- Statutory Sick Pay and holidays
- managing sick leave
- keeping records
Register for the next live 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
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
Responsibilities when your business grows
Register for the next live webinar from HMRC and HSE.
To find out about your responsibilities as your business grows for:
- health and safety
- reporting tax and National Insurance
Published 6 October 2017
Last updated 23 November 2018 + show all updates
Last updated 23 November 2018 + show all updates
- A bite sized webinar on accommodation and the National Minimum Wage has been added.
- Webinars for 'Unpaid working time and the National Minimum Wage', 'Employer filing obligations', 'Expenses and benefits', 'Payroll', 'Statutory Pay' and 'Responsibilities when your business grows' have been added and the webinar for 'Employment Status' has been removed.
- The latest webinars about employer filing obligations, company cars, vans and fuel, National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage have been added.
- The latest webinars about employer filing obligations, company cars, vans and fuel, and a Statutory Sick Pay online guide have been added.
- The latest webinars about employer filing obligations, company cars, vans and fuel, and a Statutory Sick Pay online guide have been added.
- Webinars for employee travel and responsibilities when your business grows and the workplace and travel have been added.
- Webinars for PAYE: end of year expenses and benefits has been updated.
- Webinars about getting started as an employer, payrolling and the the National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage have been updated.
- Webinars for expenses and benefits, PAYE end of year expenses, payroll, national living wage and statutory pay have been updated.
- 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.