{"id":765,"date":"2019-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/employing-someone-at-home\/"},"modified":"2019-11-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:00:00","slug":"employing-someone-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/employing-someone-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Employing someone at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, HMRC will consider you are the employer of a nanny, housekeeper, gardener or anyone else who works in your home if both the following criteria apply:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you hire them, and<\/li>\n<li>they are not self-employed or paid through an agency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If these criteria do apply this means you have certain responsibilities, like meeting the employee&rsquo;s rights and deducting the right tax.<\/p>\n<p>There are special rules for au pairs, who are not usually considered workers or employees.<\/p>\n<p>You are classed as an employer if you pay a carer or personal assistant directly, even if you get money from your local council (&lsquo;direct payments&rsquo;) or the NHS to pay for them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone you employ must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have an employment contract<\/li>\n<li>be given payslips<\/li>\n<li>not work more than the maximum hours allowed per week<\/li>\n<li>be paid at least the National Minimum Wage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If they meet the eligibility requirements, they are also entitled to things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Statutory Maternity Pay<\/li>\n<li>Statutory Sick Pay<\/li>\n<li>paid holiday<\/li>\n<li>redundancy pay<\/li>\n<li>a workplace pension<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In effect, you would be treated as an employer and would need to comply with the usual obligations to register and apply the PAYE regulations.<\/p>\n<p>If you are concerned that you may be affected we can help you set up and maintain the necessary payroll records.<\/p>\n<!-- -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, HMRC will consider you are the employer of a nanny, housekeeper, gardener or anyone else who works in your home if both the following criteria apply: you hire them, and they are not self-employed or paid through an agency. If these criteria do apply this means you have certain responsibilities, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","blog-left-layout","blog-style-postblock","","blog-alt-odd"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}