No payslips and no tax/NI paid

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I have namechanged for this
Friend has told me she has found out her employers have not paid tax or NI on her wages

Is it worth her trying to sort it out?

I think the tax office could chase her direct for payment, on the basis that she is getting paid gross even if they say they have made the deductions . What the employer is doing is illegal and it will affect her longer term in terms of pension and entitlement to benefits such as JSA.

she is a live in nanny so there is no way she can be deemed self employed

The Tax office won't be interested in chasing her. The responsibility is with her employers and she can kick up as much fuss as she wants. She should tell the parents that if they do not contact HMRC and pay up the backlog within a week then she will contact them herself. All the money will be due from the parents and not from her. There is an HMRC PAYE helpline she can call if it doesn't get sorted.

The parents may not like it but they are breaking the law and messing her about so she does need to pull them up on it.

Maybe she should ask them for her P60 - statement of tax paid for the year, that will open up the conversation....