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I have been asked on many occasions about salary sacrifice schemes, whether they are available to small companies and if brokers such as I can provide them. The answer has been no and unfortunately, due to the high set up costs, look to remain so. I was at a meeting yesterday at Buckingham University at which one of the UK’s leading providers of Read more »

What is the benefit in kind tax position of an employee who is provided with a hire car? I could go into lots of detail as it depends on whether the employee has a company car provided and whether he has it for 30 days continuously. Whether the car is better or worse than his company car and if it’s not to replace a company car then how much of the mileage is private! Oh this is so boring, If you really want to know look it up on Google or something! I’ll just move on before I bore myself to death! By Graham Hill

We have finally had confirmation from the treasury that the tax changes mentioned in the last budget only apply to new cars. Not that anyone expected it to be otherwise but the statements should never have been so vague in the first place. Cars that are already in use by April 2009 will not be subjected to the new rules so this will no doubt spur on a lot of activity between now and next April as companies look to maintain their current beneficial tax Read more »