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You may be able to increase your State Pension based on the National Insurance record
How to pay a PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA), including payment methods, reference numbers, bank details and deadlines.
Your insurance must cover you for at least £5 million - check authorised insurers and how you can be fined
If you provide company cars to your employees, use form P46 (Car) to tell HMRC
The main things you need to consider when employing people for the first time or if you've never hired an employee before
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.
Blind Person's Allowance is an extra amount you can earn before paying tax - what you'll get, eligibility, how to apply and how to transfer your allowance
Find HMRC-recognised payroll software to manage your Real Time Information (RTI) PAYE payments and deductions.
Working out a director's National Insurance, using their annual earnings period, what to report to 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.
Employment rights and questions you can be asked about your disability - disability symbol, employment advisers and reasonable adjustments
Overtime law - what is overtime, overtime pay, employee rights, part-time workers and time off in lieu
Use the online form to complain about not being paid the National Minimum Wage, employment agencies, gangmasters or working hours.
You can receive an unlimited fine for employing an illegal worker - find out what happens and what you can do
Employees working for one employer without a break, employments rights for continuous services, breaks that do not affect continuous service
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
Correct mistakes with pay and deductions including National Insurance (NI), amend errors in FPS payroll reports, correct payments to HMRC.
Regular payroll tasks - record employee pay, calculate deductions, give payslips, report to and pay HMRC, view the balance of what you owe HMRC.
Rights of employees when accepting conditional and unconditional job offers and about breach of contract
What an employee needs to do when they resign from a job: how to give notice, notice period, payment arrangements, gardening leave, restrictive covenants
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