Tax information for employees.
If you’re an employee, you work for someone else rather than running your own business.
Your employer usually takes Income Tax and National Insurance from your pay before you receive it. This happens through Pay As You Earn (PAYE), so you don’t normally have to deal with tax yourself.
You also have certain rights, including paid holidays, sick pay, and the minimum wage.
But sometimes things don’t go quite as they should. Tax codes can be wrong, and that can mean paying too much or too little tax. That’s why it helps to understand what your tax code means and how to check it.
We’ll walk you through this step by step. You’ll find clear guidance on claiming expenses, changing jobs, redundancy, and working from home or at sea.
How tax is taken from your pay.
What do tax codes mean?
Find out what PAYE tax codes mean, how they’re used and where to find them.
If you have two jobs or pensions.
How PAYE works if you have more than job or a pension.
Basic forms.
Payslips, P60s, P45s – find out about the forms your employer might give you.
Over- or under-paying tax.
Sometimes you might pay too much or too little tax through PAYE. Find out what to do.
Problems with an employer.
Get information about what to do if you think your employer isn’t doing what they need to.
Changing jobs or being made redundant.
Starting a new job.
Information about how to take your tax information from one job to another.
Redundancy.
Find out about what tax you pay on redundancy payments and how it’s taken.
Expenses and benefits in kind.
Expenses - what can be claimed.
Find out what can be claimed as an employee expense.
Benefits in kind.
Get information about how tax works with employee benefits like company cars.