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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.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
Regular payroll tasks - record employee pay, calculate deductions, give payslips, report to and pay HMRC, view the balance of what you owe HMRC.
Use this form to give notice of shares allotted following incorporation. Include the optional continuation pages if needed.
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
What to do if your vehicle, vehicle part or accessory is recalled, has a registered fault and how to report serious safety defect you find
Who gets copyright, types of work it covers, permitted use of copyright material, how to license and sell copyright and help resolving disputes.
Your insurance must cover you for at least £5 million - check authorised insurers and how you can be fined
Charities can register online with HMRC and claim tax relief or get tax back on Gift Aid donations and bank interest, charitable purposes, registration
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work.
You can receive an unlimited fine for employing an illegal worker - find out what happens and what you can do
How to line up your reporting dates for accounts and Company Tax Returns at the end of your limited company's first year
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing company cars, including fuel
Checks employers might need to run on job applicants, including right to work in the UK, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS - formerly CRB) checks and health checks
Renew a trade mark, including late renewals and restoring a trade mark
Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) for business properties - apply, exemptions, displaying a certificate, fines and penalties
Late commercial payments - interest and debt recovery costs you can charge businesses for late payments
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.
Object to a company's application to be removed from the companies register - how to find out if a company's applied for insolvency, who can object, how to object, what happens next.
When an employee leaves or retires, update your payroll, give the employee a P45.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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