QuickBooks® 2012 For Dummies®, UK Edition

Chapter 12

Payroll

In This Chapter

Registering your business as an employer

Adding employees to your list

Preparing your QuickBooks to do payroll

Paying your employees

Making payroll liabilities payments

Filing the Employer Annual Return

Payroll is one of the major headaches of running a small business. Fortunately, QuickBooks helps in a big way. In this chapter, we explain how.

Registering as an Employer

Even before you set up QuickBooks for payroll, you need a few other items if you want to do payroll the right way (if you want to do payroll the wrong way, you’re reading the wrong book):

Obtain an employer’s PAYE (pay as you earn) reference number.

Register with the PAYE Online Service. ...