Starting your first job
When you start working for the first time, you need to register your job as soon as possible. This is to avoid paying emergency tax.
To register your first job
To register your job, you must:
1. Have a Personal Public Service Number (PPSN). If you do not already have one, a PPSN is available from the Department of Social Protection (DSP),
2. Use myAccount to register your first job by clicking on the ‘Update job or pension’ link inthe ‘PAYE Services’ card,
3. Have certain basic information about your employer or job:
- particularly the employer’s Tax Registration Number (TRN)
- the start date of your new job or pension, and
- the frequency of your salary or wage payment.
To use myAccount
To use myAccount, you can access it by either using a verified MyGovID or else register for MyGovID, or register for myAccount. Please refer to TDM Part 38-06-02 for more detail on registering for myAccount through www.revenue.ie
To register for a verified MyGovID
To register for a verified MyGovID, you can apply for a basic account at www.mygovid.ie and you
will also need to attend a local DSP office to verify the MyGovID registration with a Public Services
Card and verify your mobile phone details.
Additional information is available on https://www.gov.ie/en/service/b6ecfd-sign-up-for-mygovid/.
To register for myAccount
To register for myAccount, it will be processed more quickly if your personal information including
contact details are up to date. Anyone registering for myAccount for the first time needs to provide the following details:
- PPSN
- First Name and Family Name
- Date of birth
- Home address (land address)
- Mobile or landline number
- Email address
Tips
The experience of the myAccount helpline is that queries arise most frequently in relation to:
(a) Name: this should be your name as it appears on your birth certificate; and
(b) Address: If you are not on Revenue’s record, particularly if this is your first employment,
Revenue will check the address provided by you in your registration application against the
records held by the DSP. Therefore, if the address on the DSP record is an old or out-of-date
address, for example, from when you were born, then it may not match the address you are
using now for the MyAccount registration. Accordingly, you should either contact DSP to
update your address to your current one, or if you are phoning the RMU helpline you will need
to know the details of that old address together with your Mother’s Maiden Name (MMN) as
both are required for verification purposes.
For those unfamiliar with the term MMN, a maiden name is a woman’s surname before she is
married, usually the family name of her parents and the name registered at her birth
Source: Part 38-06-02A – myAccount – first time employees (revenue.ie)