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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…

What new employers need to do for PAYE, including choosing whether to run payroll yourself, paying someone for the first time and keeping records.

• Introduction to PAYE

  As an employer, you normally have to operate PAYE as part of your payroll.…

• Choose how to run payroll

  You can operate PAYE by either: paying a payroll provider to do it for you…

• Setting up payroll

  If you decide to run payroll yourself, you need to complete certain tasks…

• Keeping records

  You must collect and keep records of: what you pay your employees and the…

Submit an employment intermediary report to HMRC every 3 months if you pay people like agency workers or subcontractors but do not operate PAYE

If you provide company cars to your employees, use form P46 (Car) to tell HMRC

Find out if, and how, you need to register with HMRC when you start employing people.

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

Claim up to £5,000 off your employer's National Insurance (NI), who is eligible, how to claim using your payroll software

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

Tell HMRC if you stop employing people, cancel your PAYE scheme, report a temporary gap in paying staff

Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.

Understand the letters and numbers in your employee's tax codes, know when to update someone's tax code

Regular payroll tasks - record employee pay, calculate deductions, give payslips, report to and pay HMRC, view the balance of what you owe HMRC.

Work out your new employee's tax code and starter declaration to set them up on your payroll software and register them with HMRC.

As an employer, if you provide company cars or fuel for your employees' private use, you'll need to work out the taxable value so you can report this to HMRC

Run payroll for married women or widowers paying less National Insurance, forms CA4139, CF383, CF380A, use NI category letter B or E, when to stop deducting the reduced rate

Update your payroll if an employee changes gender, check they're paying the right National Insurance if they're over State Pension age

What you can do if an employee is called up for jury service, and how to sort out their pay or help them claim an allowance

Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA) and deducting any money an employee owes the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) from their pay

End-of-year tasks, P60 form, report expenses and benefits, send last FPS to HMRC, prepare for new tax year.

Class 1 National Insurance (NI) contribution rates for the current tax year, what NI category letters mean.