
Payee Registration Services in UK
If you are an employer or employee in the United Kingdom, you are likely to have encountered the acronym PAYE quite often in your line of work. This can be explained by the fact that PAYE
also referred to as Pay As You Earn is a system adopted by the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to obtain income tax and National Insurance contributions from employees wages.
This post is aimed at creating awareness for persons who have just joined the workforce or those who are employers and are not well conversant with PAYE and the steps they need to
undertake in registering for it. If you are looking for information on how to register for PAYE and all that it entails then this article will provide you with all the necessary
information that you need.
What is PAYE?
The system prevalent in the United Kingdom called the PAYE, which stands for Pay As You Earn, is managed by the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). It simply refers to how employers deduct taxes
such as the Income Tax and National Insurance contributions, from paycheque.
As an employer, one of the most important area you must look at is running Pay As You Earn (PAYE) to ensure you meet the required legal obligations for your employees. This is important
because it helps us determine and deduct the accurate amount of tax from employees’ wages, salary or other earnings, as they receive their pay.
We do it ‘at source,’ which imply that the proper amount is first taken from the payroll before being distributed to employees. This is the process that we need to go through or by every
payroll processing date entered into HMRC about how much our employee earned and what we have deducted. We also need to pay Central pay as you earn commonly referred to as the pay as you earn
or Paye bill. It is possible to do this monthly or every quarter depending on the choice of the person making the decisions.
This also makes it possible for us to avoid having to scramble around to do our taxes and contributions while at the same time maintaining order. Well, to get down to the most important of all
things, for the purposes of PAYE registration, if you own a company and you are a director then you are an employee of your own company. Thus, even if your company’s permanent staff count is
zero, there are high chances that you may have to register for PAYE.
