Salary Sacrifice is the way to go

April 25th, 2010

With National Insurance rates for both employers and employees due to increase, salary sacrifice schemes offer real opportunities for any company or organisation whether in the public or private sector to make a real difference to the reward packages of their employees at a time when pay rises seem a distant memory for most.

There are real opportunities for:

  • pension salary sacrifice
  • car salary sacrifice
  • training salary sacrifice
  • cycle to work schemes
  • childcare salary sacrifice

All of these can and do work, they are HMRC compliant, employee and employers can both benefit and you can tailor them to an enviromentally friendly benefits policy. So give us a call on 0800 917 9176 to find out how we can help you

HMRC investigation warning!

April 16th, 2010

For all those delightfully naive people out there who have not really come across the relentless, never ending and ultimately for what – type of tax investigation, then welcome to Larkstar. This case lasted SEVEN YEARS and included a Tribunal and a High Court Hearing, then back to the Tribunal all costing millions of taxpayers money (remember we all pay for HMRC and their actions). The result was that the case was closed with HMRC getting approximately £10, yes £10 it’s NOT a typo, for each year of the investigation – this is a disgraceful waste of money and it doesn’t even touch on the stress that it has caused the individual in question, Alan Brill. Just imagine SEVEN years of your life taken up with a constant fight against HMRC and for what ultimately £70!!!