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Find out about negative earnings, clawback bonuses and claiming tax loss relief or a tax refund.
HMRC can tax loans paid to contractors or freelance workers through trusts or umbrella companies, just like normal income.
Find out how to operate PAYE if you pay your employees with assets that can be sold or cashed in, like stocks, shares or cryptoassets.
Use this if your payroll software or the GOV.UK calculator does not calculate your employee’s payments.
Find out how to set up salary sacrifice arrangements and calculate tax and National Insurance contributions on them if you're an employer.
Find out about the rules when a benefit is provided as part of optional remuneration arrangements.
Find information on tax avoidance arrangements seeking to avoid Corporation Tax, Income Tax and National Insurance contributions by using unfunded pension arrangements.
As a result of the public service pensions remedy (known as McCloud), members may have changes to the amount of, or a new unauthorised payment.
Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments
What you need to do when paying sick pay to an employee who’s pregnant, in legal custody, in a trade dispute, has overpaid or underpaid, or earns below the Lower Earnings Limit.
Find out how to recognise disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes and settle your tax affairs with HMRC.
What tax avoidance is, what can happen to you if you enter into a tax avoidance scheme and how to get help to settle your tax affairs.
Find out about tax avoidance schemes used by some businesses to provide tax free or tax reduced rewards to their employees.
Information on a number of schemes designed to avoid Income Tax and National Insurance contributions by using capital advances, joint and mutual share ownership agreements.
How to report expenses and benefits you provide to employees or directors.
How to report details of your disguised remuneration loan scheme and account for your loan charge liability.
Find out how to manually calculate Statutory Maternity Pay if your payroll software or the GOV.UK calculator does not work out your employee’s payments.
An employer can suspend an employee from work if their health and safety is in danger - employee right to pay, alternative work and how to handle problems
How to make debt deductions from an employee's pay because of an 'attachment of earnings order' (AEO) from a court. Includes information from the withdrawn A/E guidance.
Find out about late payment penalties and how to appeal if you're an employer.
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