27th January 2008, 12:19 PM
We have discussed this before.
It all depends on what was offered at the outset and the tax rules. Individual circumstances and fairness to not come into it. Everybody has costs involved in going to work many people I know spend £3000 a year on trainfares. Other people I know work away from home and they have to pay the cost of the accommodation themselves cost £10k per year.
It is a matter of choice you have to decide when you accept a job offer if the pay and conditions suit you. When tendering for a job a company will have calculated what accommodation cost will be so there will simply be no money to pay for additional benefits.
It is clear to me that some company are paying inflated subs which are clearly benefits in kind. Doing this transfers the tax liability to the individual and allows them to save the employer NI contribution thus reducing the labour costs by 9%.
Peter Wardle
(BTW when I was young we got subsistence and no wages the years known as the good old days of quality archaeology before competative tendering came in)
It all depends on what was offered at the outset and the tax rules. Individual circumstances and fairness to not come into it. Everybody has costs involved in going to work many people I know spend £3000 a year on trainfares. Other people I know work away from home and they have to pay the cost of the accommodation themselves cost £10k per year.
It is a matter of choice you have to decide when you accept a job offer if the pay and conditions suit you. When tendering for a job a company will have calculated what accommodation cost will be so there will simply be no money to pay for additional benefits.
It is clear to me that some company are paying inflated subs which are clearly benefits in kind. Doing this transfers the tax liability to the individual and allows them to save the employer NI contribution thus reducing the labour costs by 9%.
Peter Wardle
(BTW when I was young we got subsistence and no wages the years known as the good old days of quality archaeology before competative tendering came in)