The following Employment Tax guidance note by Tolley in association with Vince Ashall provides comprehensive and up to date tax information covering:

• Setting up a payroll
• Registering with HMRC
• Registering for PAYE Online
• Running the payroll
• Outsourcing the payroll
• In-house manual payroll
• In-house electronic payroll
• Automatic cancellation of a PAYE scheme
• Ceasing to be an employer

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It may be stating the obvious but to be an employer signifies that there are employees or at least one employee Depending on the employee s earnings the employer may have to make certain statutory deductions from employees salaries and wages Statutory deductions include income tax national insurance contributions NIC student loan deductions SLD and attachment of earnings orders AEOs These statutory deductions are all made via the payroll The collection system for tax and NIC is called Pay As You Earn PAYE Registering with HMRC Even though there may only be one employee an employer needs to register with HMRC if the employee s has another job is receiving a pension state or occupational has earnings equal to or more than the lower earnings limit LEL for national insurance is receiving benefits in kind from the employer Registration needs to be undertaken before the first payday The registration process can take up to two weeks and registration cannot be made more than two months before employees are first paid The timescale for registering should also take account of the time constraints associated with registering for PAYE Online see below Registration can be by telephone or the internet The information needed for registration is detailed in Checklist 1 in the Setting up a payroll template Partnerships and limited companies need to supply further information as do other types of organisations under certain circumstances This additional information and the specific circumstances for other organisations can be found integrated in the registration process on the GOV UK website Employers can register through HMRC s online services see below on the HMRC website If you already have an online account with HMRC then it may be possible to register as an emp