Tax free expenses
What expenses are tax free
Whether you’re a company director planning your own salary package, or looking for ways to cut the cost of your staff payroll, you can consider the following tax-free* expenses:
- Accommodation, supplies and services used in employment
- Annual parties and functions
- Bus services subsidised by the employer
- Cars for disabled employees
- Childcare – employer supported
- Childcare – workplace nurseries
- Childcare vouchers
- Counselling and outplacement services
- Council tax, repairs and living expenses in connection with employer-provided accommodation
- cycles and cycling safety equipment
- Disabled employees – home-to-work transport
- Emergency vehicles – commuting while on call
- Entertainment provided by a third party
- Expenses incidental to an employment-related asset transfer
- Eye tests and corrective appliances
- Gifts from third parties
- Health and employment insurance payments
- Health screening and medical check-ups
- Heavy goods vehicles – modest private use
- Homeworker’s additional household expenses
- Incidental overnight expenses
- Long service awards
- Mobile telephones
- Mileage allowance payments and passenger payments
- Overseas medical treatment
- Pension contributions to a registered pension scheme
- Recreational benefits
- Removal benefits and expenses
- Retraining courses
- Statutory redundancy
- Suggestion awards
- Transport home after working late or as a result of a failure of car sharing arrangements
- Travel and subsistence during public strikes
- Workplace parking
- Workplace meals
- Work-related training
- Works transport services.
Contact YP Finance for further details on the specific expense you are interested in.
*Tax free subject to certain conditions being met.