Once you have made the decision to hire someone there are some important issues that you must think about, particularly if you become an employer. Our guidance will help you understand whether you are an employer, and if so, what you have to do.

We discuss below assistance available through the access to work scheme to help get disabled people into work and keep them in work, looking in particular at potential tax implications.

Care workers can face some challenges when it comes to understanding their minimum wage, tax and benefit positions due to the nature of care work and the travel patterns involved. Here, we give you an overview of some of the main issues and tell you where to get more help.

Care workers can face some challenges in the tax and benefit system, often due to their contractual arrangements and travel patterns. In these pages, we set out some of the issues related to zero hours contracts and varying work patterns and explain what to do if you are affected by them.

The introduction of Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT was the first phase of HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) ‘Making Tax Digital’ program. It was introduced in stages beginning in April 2019 and since April 2022 all VAT registered businesses, other than those which are exempt, are in scope of the ...

VAT is a complex tax that attracts strict penalties. On this page, we take you through some of the various VAT related issues you may have when in business as a sole trader, partnership or limited company. Please note we give no more than an overview here.