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Understand the letters and numbers in your employee's tax codes, know when to update someone's tax code
You put an employee’s tax code into your payroll software to work out how…
The numbers in an employee’s tax code show how much tax-free income they…
Letters in an employee’s tax code refer to their situation and how it…
Usually someone’s tax code changes if their tax-free income (Personal…
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