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What makes you self-employed, what counts as trading and what to do, including registering for Self Assessment.
Find out if you're an employment intermediary and what you need to do to make sure your worker's tax and National Insurance is paid correctly.
What to do if you're an employer who has been taken to an employment tribunal. Find out about the hearing, what happens if you lose your case and how to appeal.
How to protect your employment business, and the workers you supply, from non-compliant businesses in your supply chain.
Includes types of worker, employee rights, overtime and changes to contracts
Guidance, forms and helpsheets for self-employment. Including setting up your business, filing returns, claiming expenses and how to get help and support.
Calculate the deemed employment payment for private sector engagements where the off-payroll working rules (often known as IR35) apply.
Guidance and forms covering employment related securities. Including scheme notifications and returns, penalties and National Insurance transfers.
Find out how much you need to put aside for your Self Assessment tax bill if you're self-employed by using HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC's) self-employed tax calculator.
Statistics on Employment Schemes, New Enterprise Allowance, pre-Work Programme mandatory programmes, Youth Offer, Youth Contract and Get Britain Working.
Find out about changes to restrictions in Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI) options agreements and working time declarations.
Guidance on employment status for HR advisers, and to help individuals and businesses understand which employment rights apply to them.
This collection brings together all documents in the Employment Relations Research Series.
Call or write to HMRC to check if you or someone else is classed as employed or self-employed
Off-payroll working rules for clients, workers (contractors) and their intermediaries.
What you need to do if you set up as a sole trader - check your employment status, understand your obligations, and register for tax.
Check if you’re the deemed employer and what your responsibilities are if the off-payroll working rules (IR35) apply.
Use supplementary pages SA102 to record employment income on your SA100 Tax Return.
Business expenses you can claim if you're self-employed
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