PAYE and overseas employees
There are a multitude of rules and regulations that you must be aware of when you employ someone from abroad who is coming to work in the UK.
HMRC’s guidance (entitled New employee coming to work from abroad) sets out some important issues to be aware of when taking on a new employee from abroad.
This includes the following:
- Check an employee’s right to work in the UK
- Paying tax and National Insurance contributions
- National Insurance contributions
- Modified PAYE arrangements
- Payments
- Work done in and outside the UK
- Short term business visitors
UK employers must operate PAYE and NICs for employees from abroad regardless of whether they are working on a temporary or permanent basis. This also applies to seconded employees who are being paid by an overseas company. The UK employer is responsible for reporting earnings and PAYE deductions in the same way as for a UK employee.
New employees from abroad will not have a P45 so you will need to obtain all the pertinent information to set them up and report to HMRC on a Full Payment Submission (FPS).
This includes their full name, gender, date of birth, full address and National Insurance number (if the employee knows it). The employer will also need a completed starter declaration and should enquire if the new employee has an existing student loan.
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