During the recent rail strikes several of your employees made alternative travel arrangements to commute to work. To recognise their efforts you want to reimburse their extra travel costs. How should
you account for any tax and NI on this?
Published 21.09.2022
Two directors of our subscriber’s company live over 100 miles from its head office. As they are required to attend board meetings there, can the company reimburse or pay their travel and
accommodation expenses tax and NI free?
Published 22.09.2020
Where you work at home, your company can pay a tax-free allowance to cover household expenses. To avoid complex calculations the Taxman says you can claim a flat figure per week, but in what
circumstances can you justify more?
Published 05.03.2012
There’s more than one way to compensate your staff tax and NI free for costs they incur when they work from home. The rules for each are quite different but is one more generous than the others?
Published 28.03.2019
Naturally, you want to keep costs down and having a robust system for checking employee expense claims should be part of that regime. What are the requirements to meet HMRC’s standards?
Published 03.12.2021
You want to work from home, however a colleague has warned this will affect the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) exemption on your house. He says that you can avoid this by not claiming a tax deduction for
household costs. Is this right?
Published 15.06.2012
When an employee’s car was damaged in our subscriber’s car park the company paid to have it repaired. The question is should the payment be taxed and, if so, as earnings or as a benefit in kind?
Published 17.03.2020
You’ve heard from a colleague that he’s just had the decorators in. According to him, the Taxman will be footing the bill, as it’s being paid for by his company. How is this possible?
Published 13.04.2006
If you work at home you should claim the extra costs of running a home office. But how much? The Taxman recently published his view on the tax-free status of such expenses. What do you need to know?
Published 24.11.2005
You’ve volunteered to do some fetching and carrying for a charity. You won’t be paid a wage but the charity is willing to meet your travel costs. Will you have to pay tax on these?
Published 30.04.2020