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If you're an employer and provide expenses or benefits to employees or directors, you might need to tell HMRC and pay tax and National Insurance on them
If you’re an employer and provide expenses or benefits to employees or…
You must report taxable expenses or benefits you provide to your employees…
What you need to do Deadline after the end of the tax year Report expenses…
You must keep a record of all expenses and benefits you provide to your…
You do not have to report some routine employee expenses to HM Revenue and…
Business expenses you can claim if you're self-employed
If you’re self-employed, your business will have various running costs.…
Claim items you’d normally use for less than 2 years as allowable…
You can claim allowable business expenses for: vehicle insurance repairs…
You can claim allowable business expenses for: uniforms protective…
You can claim allowable business expenses for: employee and staff salaries…
You can claim allowable business expenses for: goods for resale (stock)…
Accountancy, legal and other professional fees can count as allowable…
You can claim allowable business expenses for: advertising in newspapers…
You can claim allowable business expenses for training that helps you:…
Keep records of all your business expenses as proof of your costs. Add up…
Find out about the legal background to expenses payments and benefits received by directors and employees.
As an employer, you might need to report any expenses or benefits you provide to employees - tax and National Insurance (NI) payments
Find out if simplified expenses suits your business. Compare what expenses you can claim using simplified expenses with what you can claim by working out the actual costs.
Use a simpler calculation to work out income tax for your vehicle, home and business premises expenses
Find out how to value company benefits for your employees.
Find out about travelling and subsistence expenses for an employee's spouse when they accompany them on business trips.
Tax and reporting rules for employers who meet or reimburse an employee's expenses - scale rate payments round sum allowances (RSA)
Tax and reporting rules for employers who provide transport subsistence expenses for employees.
How to tax employee expenses for entertaining clients.
Find out about exemptions for paid or reimbursed expenses, and what PAYE Settlement Agreements are.
Find out information about employee incidentals overnight expenses for business travel.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing company vans and fuel
How to claim R&D expenditure credit (RDEC) for Corporation Tax relief on your company's R&D, if you’re a large company or small and medium-sized enterprise.
Tax and reporting rules for employers who make assets available to employees
If you’re a company, find out if you can claim full expensing or the 50% first year allowance on plant or machinery costs.
Find out more information on expenses, payments and benefits that are non-taxable.
Tax and reporting rules for employers covering the cost of personal expenses on overnight business trips
Includes company cars and paying tax on employee benefits
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