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. 

Penalties are fines issued by HMRC where a person has not done something they should have. They are generally charged for either not doing something at the correct time or not doing something accurately. Here we look at what might happen if you operate Pay As You Earn (PAYE) incorrectly.

In this section we look at the main activities associated with running a payroll, including making submissions to HMRC, paying your employee and paying HMRC.

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.