If you are going to employ someone, you must find out about your employment law responsibilities.

As an employer you have to keep records about your employees. This page tells you more about the records you need to keep. 

Here we look at some general considerations around setting yourself up as an employer – this includes providing more detail about two key aspects – registering as an employer, and your payroll filing options. You should also start planning for automatic enrolment, because as soon as you take on an ...

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 ...

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.

This section explains a bit more about HMRC's Real Time Information system, including dedicated pages on the software available to help you file online, and the alternative paper process.