What are your responsibilities as a taxpayer?
Keeping records
It’s really important to keep all the right bits of paper. It’s not easy to get duplicates and it’s a major nuisance if you lose them. When you start a new job, you’ll need things like your National Insurance number card.
It’s best to keep everything just in case, but particularly:
- Your National Insurance number Card
- Payslips
- P45 (You’ll get this when you leave a job)
- P60 (You’ll get this after the end of the tax year if you are still employed with the same employer – it shows how much tax and National Insurance you’ve paid)
- Anything from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), if you’re claiming any benefits
- If you work for yourself, you will need to keep records of everything you earn and spend for your business
