{"id":4090,"date":"2018-03-24T16:13:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/glossary\/what-are-tax-codestax-codes-are-used-to-calculate-how-much-tax-to-deduct-from-your-pay-or-your-pension-hmrc-works-out-the-code-and-sends-it-through-you-so-you-can-ensure-your-employees-are-paying-t\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:41:26","slug":"what-are-tax-codes","status":"publish","type":"sage_glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/glossary\/what-are-tax-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"What are tax codes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header has-dark-background-color entry-header--has-illustration entry-header--has-illustration--generic\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-header__row row align-center\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col col-lg-7 col-xlg-6 entry-header__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"component component-single-header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-header__misc text--subtitle text--uppercase text--small\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/glossary\/\" class=\"entry-header__link\">Glossary definition<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-title-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"entry-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat are tax codes?\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"single-post-details container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"reading-time\"> min read<\/span>\n\t\t<button\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"social-share-button button button--icon button--secondary js-social-share-button\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-title=\"What are tax codes?\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/glossary\/what-are-tax-codes\/\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-text=\"Please read this interesting article\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__share-label\">Share<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__copy-label\" hidden>Copy Link<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__copy-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\" hidden>Copied<\/span>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/tax-codes-business\/\">Tax codes<\/a> are used to calculate how much tax to deduct from your pay or your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/pension-contributions\/\">pension<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HMRC works out the code and sends it through you so you can ensure your employees are paying the right amount of tax. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/payroll-software\/tax\/\">HMRC-recognised payroll<\/a> software will always gaurentee that your employees have the most up to date tax codes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax codes are used to calculate how much tax to deduct from your pay or your pension. HMRC works out the code and sends it through you so you can ensure your employees are paying the right amount of tax. HMRC-recognised payroll software will always gaurentee that your employees have the most up to date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_sage_video":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[37,27],"class_list":["post-4090","sage_glossary","type-sage_glossary","status-publish","hentry","tag-payroll","tag-tax"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Sage Advice UK","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/sage_glossary\/4090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/sage_glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/sage_glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/sage_glossary\/4090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}