1. Find your business on the Companies House register
Online Filings being integrated and authorised by Companies House, all the information needed to register your business for PAYE can be retrieved automatically saving you at least 25 minutes.
2. Select optional HMRC registration add-ons to save time
In addition to registering for PAYE, if needed, through Online Filings you can also register the business with HMRC for the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) or VAT, all in one go.
3. File in minutes and receive your PAYE References Number
It takes 5 minutes to complete your application from any devices. Once submitted, HMRC will send your PAYE reference number within 5 working days securely at your trading address.
If you are going to earn more than £118 per week it is COMPULSORY to register for PAYE with HMRC
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Online Filings is an HMRC authorised PAYE (Pay-As-You-Earn) agent. Your registration is checked, processed and securely sent to HMRC.
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No login, password or complicated jargon. Just respond to our 5 min questionnaire about your business.
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Online Filings can produce your employee payroll on your behalf and send a Real Time Information submission to HMRC. No need to focus on admin tasks, we got your back!
If you intend to hire employees, including yourself, you will need to register as an employer with HMRC. The system used by HMRC is referred to as 'Pay As You Earn' (PAYE) and collects Income Tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs) from eligible employees.
Once you have completed our online form and it has been approved by us, we will submit an application to HMRC on your behalf. Then, once you've been successfully registered as an employer by HMRC, you'll receive a letter in the post with your PAYE reference.
You can find your employer’s reference number from several sources:
Real Time Information requires employers to send a return to HMRC every time they pay their employees. Nearly all employers have had to send RTI returns since April 2013.
An employer reference number is a unique combination of letters and numbers, also called an employer PAYE reference, PAYE reference number (ERN). It is given to a business when it registers with HMRC as an employer, serving to identify the employer for employee income tax and national insurance purposes.
The employer reference number is in two parts. The first part is 3 digits, which identifies the HMRC office number that deals with the company’s PAYE (e.g. 135). The second part of the reference, which follows a forward slash, is the tax office’s reference for the employer itself. (e.g. AB56789). A business registered as an employer before 2001 will have an employer reference number in the form 135/A56789. Those registered after that date will take the form 135/AB56789.
If you have one or more employees in the UK, then you, as an employer are responsible for ensuring H.M. Revenue & Customs' deductions are made. Income Tax, based on an individual's tax code and Employee's National Insurance Contributions must be deducted before the net sum can be paid. Employer's NI is also payable, but this is paid by the employer and is not deducted from pay. The employer deducts tax and national insurance from their employees' pay and then pay this sum on a monthly basis over to HM Revenue and Customs.
The employer gives the employee a payslip on payday which sets out the gross and cumulative amounts of pay and all the deductions. If applicable, pension deductions, maternity pay, Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) and other items can be shown on the payslips. The total payments, minus all of the deductions gives the net pay, which is the actual amount paid to the employee. Also on payday, the employer sends a Real Time Information submission to HMRC, giving details of each employee, the payments and the deductions.
