If you are a full-time carer, you may not be in paid work, due to your caring responsibilities. This does not mean that you do not have to pay tax. If you have taxable income, such as from taxable benefits (including carer's allowance and, in Scotland, carer support payment and the Scottish carer ...

If you meet HMRC’s Self Assessment criteria for a particular tax year, HMRC will expect you to file a Self Assessment tax return for that year. However, whether or not you fall within these criteria, if HMRC ask you to file a Self Assessment tax return, then you must do so unless HMRC cancel the ...

We set out the basics, including the common letters you will see in a tax code, on our page PAYE codes. Here, we explain more about special PAYE codes you may come across and what an emergency code is.

If you get money from an occupational pension, private pension or retirement annuity, the pension payer deducts tax from your pension under the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system. We look at how PAYE applies to pensions and some problems you might encounter with your tax code. The information on this ...

If you receive employment income or pension income (other than the state pension), your employer or pension provider takes tax off your income throughout the tax year via Pay As You Earn (PAYE). In most cases, this means you pay the correct tax by the end of the year; but not always. You should ...

If HMRC calculate that you have not paid enough tax but you think that the underpayment arises because your employer or pension provider failed to operate Pay As You Earn (PAYE) correctly, you can challenge HMRC. You can request that HMRC check whether they should be asking your employer or pension ...