UK Employment Taxes: A Guide for Employers
Employment taxes in the UK encompass a range of different types of taxation and deductions that employers are legally required to manage on behalf of their employees. As an employer or payroll manager, understanding these taxes is essential not only to ensure compliance with UK law but also to avoid potential penalties and financial discrepancies […]
PAYE For Employers: Manage Company Payroll
PAYE (Pay As You Earn) is a system used in the UK to collect income tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs) from employees’ wages. As an employer, understanding PAYE is crucial for managing your payroll and tax obligations. PAYE for employers can quickly become complex. But provided you understand HMRC’s rules and your obligations, you […]
Personal Tax Allowance 2024
Every taxpayer in the UK has a personal tax allowance. Whether you’re an employee checking that you’re being paid correctly, or you’re self-employed and wanting to know how much to set aside for your annual self-assessment tax bill, it’s important to understand how your tax liability is calculated. Your personal tax allowance is a key […]
Emergency Tax Code Guide for Employers
Ensuring that new employees are registered to pay tax forms an important part of an employer’s role in fulfilling their obligations to HMRC. This includes how and when to use emergency tax codes for new starters. In this guide for employers, we explain the emergency tax rules, how they work, how to use them and […]
Marriage Allowance: How to Claim
When assessing your liability to income tax, much will depend on the extent of any personal allowance that you’re entitled to claim for the relevant tax year. If you’re either married or in a civil partnership, your spouse or civil partner may be able to transfer part of their allowance to increase your tax-free threshold, […]
Tax Relief: How to Claim & Reduce Your Tax Bill
Understanding how tax relief works in the UK can help you to minimise the amount of tax payable on any income received as either an employed worker, or when working for yourself on a self-employed basis, helping you to maximise your take-home pay or net profit. While there are broadly similar principles in place when […]
Employers’ National Insurance Rates 2024
Meeting your obligations towards HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) forms an important part of your duties as an employer in the UK. This includes payment of Employers’ National Insurance alongside your employees’ National Insurance Contributions (NICs). The following guide examines the rules relating to employers’ national insurance contributions, from what these are for and who […]
Employment Allowance: Save on Employer NICs
Running a small business in the UK comes with its own set of tax considerations. One helpful benefit for eligible employers is the Employment Allowance. If you’re liable to pay employers’ Class 1 National Insurance, eligible employers can reduce this liability by up to £5,000 per tax year. Below we look at the Employment Allowance […]
£40000 After Tax in 2024
£40,000 after Income Tax is deducted is £34,514, before National Insurance and any other relevant deductions are made. Combining Income Tax and NICs deductions, you are likely receive around £30,867 after tax on a £40,000 salary. This is however an estimate and can vary depending on your specific tax code and circumstances. In this guide, […]
How Do National Insurance Contributions Work?
National Insurance Contributions are a deduction that the majority of employees and workers will be accustomed to seeing on their payslips, and a mandatory tax payment that the majority of employers and the self-employed will be accustomed to paying. Still, many of us will not be familiar with how this is calculated and how much […]
Voluntary National Insurance Contributions
Gaps in your National Insurance record can leave you ineligible for a State Pension and certain benefits. You may be able to fill these gaps by making voluntary National Insurance contributions. Under current rules, you have until 5 April 2025 to ‘buy back’ any missing national insurance years from 2006 to 2016 using voluntary national […]
Company Car Tax 2023: Guide for Employers
Employees have to pay tax for private use of company cars. Calculating company car tax involves a range of factors, including the vehicle’s list price, fuel type and level of CO2 emissions. The following guide for employers looks at how the company car tax rules work in practice, including what has to be reported and […]
HMRC Starter Checklist For New Employees
Among your obligations as an employer when onboarding someone new is to ensure they are registered with HMRC for PAYE. If your new starter does not have a recent P45, you will need to make use of the HMRC starter checklist. In this guide for employers, we explain the different steps that you must follow […]
P11D Form: Employers’ Guide
Employers are under strict statutory obligations when it comes to declaring to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) what they pay to their employees by way of remuneration, including expenses and benefits in kind that form part of an employee’s salary package. The following article looks at the rules relating to submitting P11D forms to HMRC […]
P45 Form (Employers’ Guide)
Employers play a crucial role in ensuring the PAYE system works effectively, especially when it comes to issuing a P45 when an employee leaves a job, or requesting a P45 when an employee starts a new job, and submitting the relevant starter and leaver information to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Below we set out […]
P60 Form Guide for Employers
As an employer running payroll, you have various year-end obligations, from sending your final payroll report to HMRC to giving each of your employees a P60. In this guide, we explain the rules relating to P60s, including what these are, who needs to be given one and when, how to issue a P60, what information […]