Planned changes to child benefits mean that pension salary sacrifice schemes will be more attractive for higher earning households. For a family with three children, child benefit is worth...
Read moreDetailsEmployers have expressed relief that government proposals to scrap the current non-dom tax regime will not mean the end of all tax concessions for international employees. This was the...
Read moreDetailsYou can download a pdf of the full report here: Benefits Expert Corporate Healthcare and Cash Plan Round Table Healthcare benefits are becoming a key attraction, recruitment and...
Read moreDetailsThe government will abolish the current non-dom tax system and replace it with a “simpler and fairer residency-based system”, announced chancellor Jeremy Hunt in today’s Spring Budget. “From April...
Read moreDetailsThe Government has been consulting on greater regulation of umbrella companies to address its concerns over tax avoidance and exploitation of workers’ rights in the flexible labour market. Some...
Read moreDetailsIn the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee report on HMRC’s administration of the various employment support schemes was critical of the department's perceived failure to...
Read moreDetailsNine out of 10 (90%) employees of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) say their employer had not encouraged them to increase their workplace pension contributions, a new survey has...
Read moreDetailsPoloWorks has launched a new flexible benefits platform for its workforce. The company, which provides support services to the insurance market, introduced a solution from Zest to help with...
Read moreDetailsEDF has introduced a new salary sacrifice scheme for electric vehicles (EVs) for small- and medium-sized (SME) employers. Through the salary sacrifice scheme, EDF’s customers’ employees can save up...
Read moreDetailsThe end of June may have seen many of us grappling with the benefit-in-kind reporting requirement of form P11D. During this period, HMRC published its annual benefit-in-kind statistics for...
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