When you take on a new employee you will need to gather some basic information from them and record it somewhere safe. You will also need to decide how often to pay them.

On this page we tell you more about how PAYE deductions work. For most employers, their PAYE deductions will be handled by their payroll software. Even those who are running their payroll manually can access help in the form of PAYE tax and National Insurance calculators. Nevertheless, if you want ...

Here we discuss the assistance available through the access to work scheme to help get disabled people into work and keep them in work, looking in particular at potential tax implications.

Domiciliary care workers can face some challenges in the tax and benefit system, often due to their contractual arrangements and travel patterns. In these pages, we set out some of the issues related to zero hours contracts and varying work patterns and explain what to do if you are affected by ...

If you don’t want to run your business as a sole trader or a limited company, then you might decide to run the business in partnership with others. This page explains what a partnership is and the tax issues partnerships should be aware of.

VAT is a complex tax that attracts strict penalties. On this page, we take you through some of the various VAT related issues you may have when in business as a sole trader, partnership or limited company. Please note we give no more than an overview here.