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Qualifying trivial BiKs provided to directors and other office holders of close companies will be subject to an annual cap of £300. Where the director's or other office holder's family or household member is also an employee of the company, they will be subject to a £300 cap in their own right. This is a change from the original proposals and addresses a potential loophole.
As announced in the Autumn Statement, the government will legislate to restrict tax relief for travel and subsistence expenses for workers engaged through an employment intermediary, such as a recruitment agency or a personal service company. No relief will be allowed for home to work travel and subsistence where a worker:
Employment intermediary will be defined as a person, other than the worker or the client, who carries on a business (whether or not with a view to profit and whether or not in conjunction with any other business) of supplying labour.
Where a personal service company is also within the scope of the IR35 legislation this measure will only apply to those contracts where a deemed employment payment is made, or would be made if all the individual's remuneration was not being taken as employment income. In these circumstances the supervision, direction or control test will not be used. This change will take effect from 6 April 2016.
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