Bank charges

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How do you treat bank charges?
If you are an employer and you are reimbursing bank charges incurred by your employees, you will need to treat these as earnings and report them to HMRC. To do this, you will add any bank charge payments you make to the employees’ other earnings and deduct Class 1 National Insurance and PAYE tax through payroll, just as you would any other earnings.
Are there any exemptions?
If you have paid or reimbursed bank charges because they are in some way your fault, for example late payment of salary has caused your employee to incur these charges, then these don’t count as earnings because you are just righting a wrong that your employee shouldn’t have incurred. In this instance you don’t need to report this to HMRC and there will be no tax or National Insurance payable.
How can DSR Tax Refunds help?
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This page was last updated on 06/11/2018.

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