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Basic PAYE Tools user guide

Get step by step help to run your payroll and change payroll details using Basic PAYE Tools.

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This guide gives you step by step help to run your payroll using  Basic PAYE Tools as an employer with fewer than 10 employees.  

All Basic PAYE Tools user guides are updated only when there are major changes. They may not be updated yearly.

You must register with HMRC for PAYE Online as an employer before you use Basic PAYE Tools to run your payroll calculations and submissions.

Updates to this page

Published 12 June 2014
Last updated 8 May 2024 show all updates
  1. HMRC no longer sends printed payment booklets (P30BC). You can still pay tax you owe from the tax year 6 April 2023 to 5 April 2024 at your bank or building society using a payment booklet, if you already have one. To pay tax for the current tax year, you must choose another way to pay.

  2. Basic PAYE Tools information updated for 2020 to 2021 tax year.

  3. Basic PAYE Tools information updated for 2020 to 2021 tax year.

  4. Basic PAYE Tools information updated for 2019 to 2020 tax year.

  5. Basic PAYE Tools information updated for 2018 to 2019 tax year.

  6. Annual updates 2017-2018 have been carried out.

  7. Updated guidance available.

  8. Essential updates to the Basic PAYE Tool User Guide for various tasks including information regarding auto enrolement.

  9. Full instructions have been added to the Basic PAYE Tool User Guide for the tasks relating to annual reporting PAYE in Real Time Information.

  10. Basic PAYE Tools information updated for 2014 to 2015 tax year.

  11. First published.

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