TAX TIP OF THE WEEK – With the cost of living going up your employees may soon be hankering for a pay rise even if you think their performance doesn’t deserve one. A ‘Staff Suggestion Scheme’ could be the answer.

Once this is implemented, it will incentivise your team to develop ideas to improve your business, and any reward payments you make a FREE of tax and NI.

You can pay up to £5k for a suggestion but there are some conditions and payment must be linked to the financial benefit for your business, which is the greater of:

– 50% of the expected benefit in the first year
or
– 10% of the expected benefit over the next 5 years

The financial benefit is just an estimate of what can be reasonably expected. As long as this is documented, it is unlikely to be challenged by HMRC.

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