P60 Form — Fill the End of Year Certificate Online, Free

A P60 is the End of Year Certificate that every UK employer must give to every employee who is on the payroll on 5 April. It shows your total pay from that employer, the income tax deducted under PAYE, your National Insurance contributions, any statutory payments (sick, maternity, paternity, adoption), student loan repayments and your final tax code for the tax year. HMRC issues the master template; only employers print and supply the P60 — HMRC does not send it directly to employees.

Your employer must give you your P60 by 31 May after the end of the tax year. For the tax year ending 5 April 2026, that means you should have your 2025-26 P60 by 31 May 2026. It can be issued on paper or electronically (PDF). If 31 May has passed and you still have not received it, contact your employer's payroll team — HMRC cannot issue a P60 on your behalf.

Ask your employer first — they are required to keep payroll records for at least three years and can issue a duplicate or replacement P60 (often marked 'DUPLICATE'). If the employer no longer exists or refuses, sign in to your HMRC personal tax account at gov.uk/personal-tax-account, where you can view (but not download as a P60) your pay and tax history for the last five years. PDF Edit lets you transcribe those figures into a clean PDF copy for your own records — but only the employer can issue the legally-valid original P60.

The P60 is an annual summary given to employees still employed on 5 April; it covers the whole tax year with one employer. The P45 is given when you leave a job and shows pay and tax to your leaving date so a new employer can put you on the right tax code. The P11D is a separate return covering benefits in kind — company car, private medical insurance, interest-free loans — that your employer provides on top of salary. You can have all three in the same year: a P45 from the job you left, a P60 from the job you ended the year in, and a P11D for any benefits.

A standard HMRC P60 shows: your name, National Insurance number and final tax code; your employer's name and PAYE reference; total pay 'in this employment' and total tax deducted; pay and tax 'in previous employments' if you changed jobs during the year; National Insurance contributions broken down by category letter (A, H, M, etc.); statutory sick, maternity, paternity, adoption and parental bereavement pay; student and postgraduate loan deductions; and the tax year covered. The figures are cumulative for the year ending 5 April.

Because the P60 is the single official document that proves an employee's total annual gross pay and the tax actually paid on it. Mortgage lenders typically ask for the most recent two or three P60s (plus payslips) to verify income for affordability calculations. The DWP and local councils use it for benefits claims (Universal Credit, Housing Benefit, Council Tax Reduction). HMRC also asks for P60 figures when you claim a tax refund, fill a Self Assessment return, or appeal a tax code.

Read the P60 in three blocks. (1) Pay and Income Tax: 'In this employment' shows pay and tax from the employer issuing the form; 'In previous employment(s)' shows pay and tax brought forward from any P45 you handed in. The 'Total for year' boxes are what HMRC, lenders and the DWP care about. (2) National Insurance: each NI letter row shows earnings between the Lower Earnings Limit, Primary Threshold and Upper Earnings Limit, and the employee NIC paid. (3) Statutory payments and student loans: shown separately because they are recoverable or reportable elsewhere. The 'Final tax code' tells you what code the employer was using on 5 April 2026.

Yes. PDF Edit opens the HMRC P60 layout in your browser and lets you click each field to type the figures — gross pay, tax deducted, NI by category, student loan, final tax code. There is no account, no upload and no watermark on the saved PDF. Note that the legally-valid original P60 must be issued by your employer; PDF Edit is designed for replicating, archiving or completing a clean copy from a payslip or personal tax account record, not for replacing the employer's statutory duty to issue one.

No. P60s are only issued to employees paid through PAYE. If you are self-employed (sole trader, partner or director taking dividends), your equivalent annual record is the SA302 tax calculation and the tax year overview, both downloadable from your HMRC personal tax account or generated by your accountant after you file Self Assessment. Mortgage lenders accept SA302 + tax year overview in place of a P60 for self-employed applicants.

PDF Edit reproduces the HMRC P60 (End of Year Certificate) layout for the tax year ending 5 April 2026 so you can fill it on screen. The legally-binding P60 is the one your employer issues to you. Always check the figures on the employer's P60 against your final March payslip, and use the gov.uk page at gov.uk/paye-forms-p45-p60-p11d/p60 as the authoritative source for any HMRC procedural changes.