Category Archives: Salary Sacrifice

National Insurance refund opportunity for Employers and Employees

Following a recent case in the First Tier Tribunal, a potential National Insurance Contribution (“NIC”) refund could be due to you as an employer and to your employees if you: • pay a business mileage payment of less than 40p … Continue reading

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Car schemes, the enviroment and this government

Why will this government not admit that the majority of its “green” measures are just effectively a secret additional tax – take cars for example we are getting taxed to death on the price of fuel, vehicle excise duty, company … Continue reading

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Pre Budget Report – today’s the day!

So we have the pre budget report today when we theoretically find out the true scale of the national debt and what the government propose to do about it. However, as always seems to be the practice these days, it’s … Continue reading

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Change to Advisory Fuel Rates but it’s not straight forward!

I like many people had hoped that our taxation system would be made simpler but no it seems like one more administrative burden after another. An example for you with something as seemingly innocuous as a change in the Advisory … Continue reading

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Brown U Turn on childcare vouchers?

It’s good to see that we have a focused government, sure of what they are doing – are you kidding, in an effort to enter Strictly Come Dancing himself  Gordy looks like he is heading for yet another U turn … Continue reading

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Employee Car Ownership Schemes can save you loads of money!

Yes that’s right – in this era of doom and gloom both employers and employees can save a lot of money and not be tied to ever increasing car benefit and car fuel benefit charges simply by looking at how … Continue reading

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Childcare Voucher Schemes v. MP’s expenses

So here we go, the start of how do we claw back the national debt, well what a way to start – removing tax relief from childcare voucher schemes – what message is that sending everyone! and now we have … Continue reading

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Pension Salary Sacrifice can save EVERYONE loads of money!

Pensions are just one item that can be subject to a salary sacrifice arrangement but it can yield SIGNIFICANT savings for both the employer AND the employee. When times are difficult these sort of arrangements can benefit everyone and the … Continue reading

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Employee Car Ownership Schemes

If you either have company cars or a car allowance scheme have you considered what savings you could make by moving to an employee car ownership scheme? Could your business do with making excellent savings as well as motivating your … Continue reading

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