These pages tell you about working in the UK - what you need to do before you start work, the documents you’ll need, how you pay tax and National Insurance and where you can get help.
Documents you need before you
can work in the UK
Visas, work permits and registration
Paying UK tax and National Insurance
– an introduction
Paying tax and National Insurance on money you earn in the UK
Working for someone else (employed)
Paying tax and National Insurance as an employee
Working for yourself (self-employed)
What you need to do first, how you pay tax and National Insurance, VAT
Working in the construction
(building) industry
How you pay tax as a ‘contractor’ or ‘sub-contractor’ in the Construction
Industry Scheme (CIS)
Tax on income and gains outside
the UK
How you pay tax on foreign income and gains, ‘residency’ and ‘domicile’
Financial help if you are
on a low wage or have children
Extra money you can get, tax credits, Child Benefit
The national minimum wage
What the national minimum wage is, who it applies to and how much
it is
Follow the links below to read the leaflet ‘Coming to work in the UK? We’ll show you the way to pay your taxes.’ You can get it in Bulgarian, Czech, English, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Slovakian.
Read the leaflet ‘Coming to work in the UK? We’ll show you the way to pay your taxes’ :
Coming to work in the UK? - Bulgarian (PDF 851K)
Coming to work in the UK? - Czech (PDF 541K)
Coming to work in the UK? - English (PDF 491K)
Coming to work in the UK? - Hungarian (PDF 544K)
Coming to work in the UK? - Latvian (PDF 516K)
Coming to work in the UK? - Lithuanian (PDF 850K)
Coming to work in the UK? - Polish (PDF 545K)
Coming to work in the UK? - Portuguese (PDF 531K)
Coming to work in the UK? - Romanian (PDF 1MB)
Coming to work in the UK? - Russian (PDF 536K)
Coming to work in the UK? - Slovakian (PDF 874K)
