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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.
You can receive an unlimited fine for employing an illegal worker - find out what happens and what you can do
When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.
Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) for business properties - apply, exemptions, displaying a certificate, fines and penalties
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.
How to pay Class 1A National Insurance for employers, including a HMRC reference number, bank details, Faster Payments, CHAPS, Bacs, overseas payments and deadlines.
Grievances and disciplinary action at work can be solved by informal discussions, formal procedures, mediation, conciliation or arbitration.
How to pay a PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA), including payment methods, reference numbers, bank details and deadlines.
How to issue a winding up petition - forms and fees to wind up a company to recover any money you're owed.
Tell HMRC if you stop employing people, cancel your PAYE scheme, report a temporary gap in paying staff
Support from Jobcentre Plus if you're recruiting - including work trials, recruitment advice, Youth Contract and other employment schemes
Use this form to change the registered office address of a company in liquidation, or if you're restoring a company, or if it has a default address.
Making changes to your company - passing resolutions, changing addesses and where your records are kept, your company name and type, directors' and secretaries' details, share structure, constitution
When you can be disqualified from being a director of a company - how the process works, investigations, what happens if you're banned
When an employee leaves or retires, update your payroll, give the employee a P45.
Check the veterinary product information database to find out if a medicine is safe to use on your pet or has been removed from sale.
Accommodation provided by an employer can affect the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage: offset rates, accommodation charges.
Submit an employment intermediary report to HMRC every 3 months if you pay people like agency workers or subcontractors but do not operate PAYE
Correct mistakes with pay and deductions including National Insurance (NI), amend errors in FPS payroll reports, correct payments to HMRC.
You may need a child performance licence for any child taking part in a public performance, sporting event or modelling assignment
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