A P45 is a form an employer must issue to an employee when they leave their employment. It should contain details of salary and taxes paid to date in that tax year. An employer must simply provide a P45 without unreasonable delay, although there is no time frame specified. For more information about what you need to do when an employee leaves, visit the what to do when an employee leaves section of GOV.
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If your new employee arrives without a P45 you will need the employee to complete a starter checklist formerly a P46 form and enter the information into your payroll system. This allows you to calculate temporary tax codes that should be used until notified of new codes by HMRC, or from a P45 later submitted by the employee. When an employee leaves your employ you should provide them with a P45 along with their final payslip. In practice this may not be available until after they have left your employment and their final payroll has been processed.
In the meantime you should use the data from the starter checklist from your new employee to work out a temporary tax code. P45s, like all tax records, should be kept by the employee, the old employer and the new employer for six years from the end of the tax year to which they relate, however HMRC can carry out retrospective checks up to 20 years so it may be worth keeping for longer. If you receive a P45 form for a prior tax year then you should not use this.
Ask the employee to complete a starter checklist instead as they must provide information about the current tax year. It is therefore no longer required if a tax year boundary lies between the end of your old employment and start of the new. Robin T Cox. Thanks, Jim It is valid for the current tax year. If you start a new job in the same tax year as the one in which you left your last job, your new employer will need your P45 in order to ensure that PAYE continues to be applied to your earnings.
This used not to be quite true. If an employer received a P45 from the preceding tax year before 24 May the employer was required to use the P45 to provide the PAYE code for the new employment. If received after 24 May the emergency code is used but the P45 still avoids the need for a P In any event, there is no reason not to hand over a P45 no matter how old it is unless you the OP really do not want your new employer to see it.
March 17th 07, AM posted to uk. Peter Saxton. It's never "required". If it is for an earlier tax year then the information is used except pay and tax. Thread Tools. Print entire guide. Step 1 : Check your business is ready to employ staff. Prepare your business to take on employees. Step 2 : Recruit someone. Find out about recruiting someone yourself on Acas Find out about using a recruitment agency As an employer you must make sure you recruit employees fairly.
Avoid discrimination during recruitment Make your application process accessible for employees with disabilities or health conditions. Find out how to check an applicant's right to work. Step 3 : Check if they need to be put into a workplace pension. Check if you need to put your employee into a workplace pension scheme: if it's the first time you're employing someone if you already employ people. Step 4 : Agree a contract and salary.
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