Tax Codes

Find out more about what a PAYE tax code is and how it’s worked out. Checking your tax code is important and should be done each tax year or when your tax affairs change.

The PAYE system is how employees pay tax and every taxpayer is issued a tax code. This is the key to making sure that you don’t pay too much or too little income tax. It’s your responsibility to check your tax code and to get it changed if it’s wrong.

Your tax code is directly effected by the tax free Personal Allowance which often changes at the start of each new tax year. A change in the tax free personal allowance will usually bring you a new, corresponding tax code.

There are several other reasons that can affect your tax code which you should find out about, to help you only pay the tax you need to.