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Salary Sacrifice

Salary sacrifice allows employees to agree to forego part of their salary in return for non-cash benefits such as childcare vouchers and pension contributions, which can enable tax and national insurance savings to be made. Salary sacrifice offers employees greater flexibility of choice as to how their remuneration package is shaped.


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    Electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes: What are the risks?

    by Jo Faragher 12 Aug 2024
    by Jo Faragher 12 Aug 2024

    Electric vehicle salary sacrifice: what are the risks to consider when offering an EV scheme?

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    • Company cars
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    EV salary sacrifice example: How ScottishPower plugs its car scheme into its values

    by Jo Faragher 12 Aug 2024
    by Jo Faragher 12 Aug 2024

    ScottishPower wanted an EV salary sacrifice scheme that would be in tune with their sustainability goals and values.

    • Benefits
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    Should all employees be able to join our EV salary sacrifice scheme?

    by Adam McCulloch 12 Aug 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 12 Aug 2024

    Who should be eligible for electric car salary sacrifice schemes and what are the responsibilities for drivers? Andy Bruce of fleet management firm Fleet Alliance answers the key questions

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    How electric vehicle salary sacrifice helps achieve ESG goals

    by Jo Faragher 12 Aug 2024
    by Jo Faragher 12 Aug 2024

    With an increased focus on companies' environmental commitments, launching an EV salary sacrifice scheme can support them to meet these goals. 

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    Lime bikes now available via salary sacrifice

    by Jo Faragher 1 Aug 2024
    by Jo Faragher 1 Aug 2024

    Popular city bike hire company Lime is partnering with a cycle-to-work scheme to offer employees discounted minutes on electric bikes.

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    HMRC to clamp down on misapplied childcare scheme

    by Jo Faragher 19 Jul 2024
    by Jo Faragher 19 Jul 2024

    HM Revenue & Customs is clamping down on employers that may have wrongly used a government benefit to reduce childcare costs for staff.

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    How salary sacrifice electric cars can help staff lower costs

    by Andrew Leech 20 Oct 2022
    by Andrew Leech 20 Oct 2022

    Electric vehicles provided through a salary sacrifice scheme can help employees not only cut their costs of mobility but overcome wellbeing issues surrounding the cost of living crisis at the same time.

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    The heat is on and so is some British ‘compassion’

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Jun 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Jun 2022

    Some sound advice for working in high temperatures as the first heatwave of summer hits the UK; plus why UK workers are so 'compassionate'.

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    Why now is the time to begin financial wellbeing conversations

    by Ashleigh Webber 2 Mar 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 2 Mar 2021

    A new campaign, the National Welness Conversation, aims to get employers to address the issue of money management with their staff.

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    CBI highlights two-speed economic recovery

    by Adam McCulloch 18 Sep 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 18 Sep 2020

    Business body's annual survey reveals companies' views of recruitment, pay freezes and National Living Wage as coronavirus crisis continues.

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    Furlough: what counts as pensionable salary?

    by Rachel Meadows 12 May 2020
    by Rachel Meadows 12 May 2020

    With almost a quarter of roles in the UK now accessing the government’s furlough scheme, many employers have raised questions...

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    HMRC successfully appeals tribunal ruling on national minimum wage

    by Adam McCulloch 23 Mar 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 23 Mar 2020

    Employment appeal tribunal rules against Middlesbrough over pay deductions.

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    ‘Perverse’ minimum wage enforcement replaced by ‘proportionate’ approach

    by Rob Moss 11 Feb 2020
    by Rob Moss 11 Feb 2020

    The government has abandoned its previously “pedantic” regime.

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    • Salary Sacrifice

    Employer childcare voucher schemes get six-month reprieve

    by Jo Faragher 14 Mar 2018
    by Jo Faragher 14 Mar 2018

    Plans to scrap employer childcare voucher schemes have been delayed by six months after the Democratic Unionist Party intervened.
    Last...

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    How Tax-free Childcare works and its impact on employers

    by James Malia 9 May 2017
    by James Malia 9 May 2017

    Tax-free Childcare is the latest initiative from Government to support working parents, but it could see some worse off than...

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