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Good morning, One of our employees contract has been terminated and a company has decided to pay her £45,000 redundancy/ termination payment & £14,500 notice pay (taxable). I understand that the redundancy/termination payment up to £30,000 is tax free. To save tax & NIC, she wants to contribute all of her notice pay £14,500 & £15,000 of her redundancy/termination payment out of £45,000 into a salary scarifies pension scheme as an additional voluntary contribution, is it possible or allowed, please advise?

The whole £45,000 is the enhanced redundancy pay, please advise?

Good morning, One of our employees contract has been terminated and a company has decided to pay her £45,000 ex-gratia & £14,500 notice pay. I understand that the ex-gratia up to £30,000 is tax free. To save tax & NIC, she wants to contribute all of her notice pay £14,500 & £15,000 of her ex gratia payment out of £45,000 into a salary scarifies pension scheme as an additional voluntary contribution, is it possible or allowed, please advise?

Hello, We need to sponsor an employee who is currently working for us in the UK. The cost of it is £15k approx. , company is willing to pay 50% (£7,500) and the balance (£7,500) will be a loan to an employee which will deducted monthly form his salary, is there any tax implications which I need to be aware of. I understand the loan element is below £10k which is not reportable as a BIK, please advise?

Hello. We need to provide a loan to an employee less than £10,000. We are thinking to make this payment through payroll (not a bank transfer) so that the transaction is captured on a payslip. Are there any restriction please on this process. I am thinking from a FPS point of view as it will show HMRC a large payment being paid to an employee through a monthly payslip which is not used for tax and NIC deductions, please advise?

Good after noon, We payroll our medical insurance benefit monthly but do not payroll the company car benefits, can we still submit the P11d forms to declare the employee company car benefit and to pay Class 1A where as we signed up for payrolling the benefits, please advise?

We have an employee going on a maternity leave where we have to carry on contributing towards her salary scarifies pension at 6% as an employer (employer's contribution), The employee will not be contributing or scarify the employee pension 4% during her maternity as she cannot scarify from her statutory payments. If we are to make an employers contribution only at 6% we are not meeting the 8% (employers + employee) minimum pension contribution requirement, which is:- Workplace pension contributions The minimum your employer pays You pay Total minimum contribution From April 2019 3% 5% 8% Is this means that we, as an employer, need to contribute full 10% (Employee 4% + employer 6%) during her maternity, please advise?

We have employees who are working in Singapore paid in the UK, they still have not received their NT tax codes and pay tax in he UK . We pay them flight allowance once a year to visit their home country (UK), are the flight allowance taxable, please advise? Kind regards 

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Good afternoon, Do an employee still entitle to a car allowance when she goes on to a maternity leave or as an employer is it compulsory to pay car allowance with SMP during the Maternity leave, please advise?

Good afternoon, Do employees contribute toward their pension if they are on a salary scarifies pension scheme taking into consideration the national minimum wage element, They are only earning SSP and pension deduction on it reduces the salary down further. please advise?