Payroll
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If you employ anyone, including yourself as a director, you need a PAYE scheme and you must report to HMRC on or before every payday under Real Time Information. Payroll is unforgiving: the deadlines are frequent, the rules change every April, and mistakes are visible to your staff immediately.
Payroll — what it is and who needs it
If you employ anyone, including yourself as a director, you need a PAYE scheme and you must report to HMRC on or before every payday under Real Time Information. Payroll is unforgiving: the deadlines are frequent, the rules change every April, and mistakes are visible to your staff immediately.
Beyond calculating pay and deductions, a payroll scheme drags in a series of obligations that are easy to overlook. Auto-enrolment pension duties apply from the day your first member of staff qualifies, with re-enrolment every three years and a declaration of compliance to The Pensions Regulator. Statutory payments — sick pay, maternity, paternity — have their own qualifying rules and evidence requirements.
We run payroll on whatever cycle suits you, send payslips to your staff, file the RTI submissions, and tell you exactly what to pay HMRC and when. At year end we handle the final submission and produce P60s. If you provide benefits such as a company car or private medical cover, we deal with the P11D reporting too.
The National Minimum and Living Wage rates change each April and apply by age band, and getting them wrong is one of the few payroll errors HMRC publicises by name. We check your rates against the new bands before each April so nobody drifts below the threshold on a birthday.
Who this is for
Any business with employees, from a single director taking a salary to teams of fifty or more.
Key facts & deadlines
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RTI submission
Full Payment Submission (FPS) required on or before each pay day.
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National Living Wage (2025)
£12.21/hour for workers aged 21+.
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Employer NIC threshold
£5,000 per employee (2025/26). Employment Allowance: up to £10,500.
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Auto-enrolment
Qualifying workers must be enrolled if earning over £10,000/year.
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Everything included in our
Payroll service
Our all-inclusive service means no surprises — everything you need is handled by your dedicated accountant.
- Weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly or monthly payroll
- RTI submissions to HMRC on or before payday
- Payslips distributed to your staff
- Starters, leavers, P45s and P60s
- Statutory sick, maternity and paternity pay
- Auto-enrolment pension assessment and uploads
- P11D benefit reporting where needed
- Confirmation of your PAYE liability and due date
Who our Payroll
service is designed for
Any business with employees, from a single director taking a salary to teams of fifty or more.
Quick checklist
- Weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly or monthly payroll
- RTI submissions to HMRC on or before payday
- Payslips distributed to your staff
- Starters, leavers, P45s and P60s
- Statutory sick, maternity and paternity pay
- Auto-enrolment pension assessment and uploads
- P11D benefit reporting where needed
- Confirmation of your PAYE liability and due date
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How our Payroll service works
We keep it simple. No jargon, no chasing — just a reliable service that runs in the background.
Send us the changes
Hours, new starters, leavers, absences. If nothing has changed, tell us that and we run it as before.
We process and file
Pay, tax, NI, pension and statutory payments calculated, then the RTI submission goes to HMRC on time.
Payslips out, figure confirmed
Your team get their payslips and you get one number to pay HMRC, with the deadline attached.
If you draw a salary, yes. You need a PAYE scheme and RTI submissions even where the salary is below the threshold at which tax and National Insurance become payable, because it is the reporting that is required rather than the payment.
Most director-only companies pay a salary set around the National Insurance thresholds because it is deductible against corporation tax and preserves a qualifying year for the State Pension. That still needs reporting properly.
You must assess every member of staff on each pay run and automatically enrol anyone aged between 22 and State Pension age earning over £10,000 a year. Minimum contributions are currently 8% of qualifying earnings in total, of which at least 3% must come from you as the employer.
You also have to re-enrol eligible staff who previously opted out roughly every three years and submit a declaration of compliance. We handle the assessment and the pension provider uploads as part of running your payroll.
By the 22nd of the following tax month if you pay electronically, or the 19th if you still pay by post. Small employers whose average monthly liability is under £1,500 can arrange to pay quarterly instead.
We tell you the amount and the deadline every period, so it is never a guess.
HMRC charges monthly penalties for late RTI submissions based on the number of employees, starting at £100 a month for very small employers and rising with headcount. The first late submission in a tax year is usually forgiven.
Late payment of the PAYE itself attracts separate penalties and interest. Because payroll deadlines come round every month rather than once a year, small problems compound quickly, which is the main argument for outsourcing it.
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