Your company has landed a blue-chip contract, but it means you working abroad for a few months. Your company will pay for you to return to the UK mid-contract to see your family, but is there a more
attractive and equally tax-efficient alternative?
Published 16.05.2017
As an employer you decide if expenses you pay or reimburse your employees are exempt or liable to PAYE tax and NI. HMRC says if you get it wrong it will hold you liable for the lost tax and NI. Is
that right?
Published 19.03.2019
You’re working on a long-term contract that keeps you away from home. You’ve rented an apartment for six months to keep costs down. Will you be taxed if you use the flat at weekends or your family
visits?
Published 26.06.2019
Getting away from work for any reasonable length of time can be difficult. If you fancy a weekend break or two away, are there way ways that you can (legitimately) get your company to pay for them?
Published 02.02.2006
The Taxman allows you to deduct expenses from property rental income like any other business. But some costs are easy to overlook, such as travel expenses. What can you claim for?
Published 28.06.2011
You’re sending one of your employees to mainland Europe for a job that will take several months to complete. What’s the tax and NI position if you pay for a return trip to the UK for purely private
reasons?
Published 06.07.2022
One of our subscribers wanted to cut the cost of his site-based employees staying away for months at a time. Renting a house seems a cheaper alternative to hotels, but would this expense result in a
tax bill for the employees?
Published 14.06.2011
Our subscriber is making an overseas trip for business and is taking her spouse and two children so they can holiday while she’s working. Her question is, can she put the expense through her company
and if so are there any tax considerations?
Published 05.03.2024
Each week you travel to another part of the country on business and rent a flat there to save on hotel bills. Surely that’s a tax deductible business expense? The tribunal didn’t think so; why?
Published 23.06.2015
The Taxman has recently published his revised list of “benchmark expenses” for overseas business trips. On the face of it this is just a time-saving concession. But can you convert them into a
tax-free benefit?
Published 26.11.2010