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Regular payroll tasks - record employee pay, calculate deductions, give payslips, report to and pay HMRC, view the balance of what you owe HMRC.
What you must do by law with a deductions from earnings order (DEO or AEO) to make child maintenance deductions from your employee's pay.
How to pay a PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA), including payment methods, reference numbers, bank details and deadlines.
How to pay Class 1A National Insurance for employers, including a HMRC reference number, bank details, Faster Payments, CHAPS, Bacs, overseas payments and deadlines.
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
Correct mistakes with pay and deductions including National Insurance (NI), amend errors in FPS payroll reports, correct payments to 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.
Accommodation provided by an employer can affect the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage: offset rates, accommodation charges.
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
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
Check if you’re paying a worker the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if you owe them payments for the previous year.
Set up a Payroll Giving scheme for your employees using PAYE - when to make deductions, costs of running the scheme, which charities are eligible and what they must do when they get the donation
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 Includes information from the withdrawn A/E guidance.
Apply for financial help from HMRC if you cannot afford to fund an employee's tax refund
Tax and reporting rules for employers who meet or reimburse an employee's expenses - scale rate payments round sum allowances (RSA)
Update your payroll records when an employee reaches State Pension age so they stop paying National Insurance
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
End-of-year tasks, P60 form, report expenses and benefits, send last FPS to HMRC, prepare for new tax year.
Arranging final payments to employees or pension recipients who die, and reporting the death of an employee at work to the Health and Safety Executive and the police.
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