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Salary Sacrifice

Salary Sacrifice

Salary Sacrifice is a fast-growing route to new vehicle ownership. This is an employer offered scheme, making individuals savings on income tax and NI contributions, when the vehicle is bought through your employer. A Salary Sacrifice car is a car you lease from a third-party supplier that has partnered with your employer. The cost of the car is deducted from your salary each month before you are taxed.

Alternative ways businesses are financing their fleet

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1. This is where an employee has a cash allowance added to their salary, so they are free to lease or buy a vehicle of their choice.
2. Great flexibility
3. Responsibility sits with the employee for insurance, maintenance, servicing, and other costs.
4. Cash allowance vehicles make up part of what is known as the “grey fleet” (this covering all privately owned vehicles that are used for business travel.

New Honda HR-V driving on a country road

Salary Sacrifice

1. Employer run option.
2. Employee chooses to use some of their salary before it is taxed in exchange for the use of a brand-new car.
3. Pre-tax paid lease, so no NI and income tax paid on these earnings.
4. This allows employees to fund a more expensive
car then that they might have otherwise chosen.
5. Insurance, maintenance, tyres and breakdown cover are included in most salary sacrifice schemes.
6. As these vehicles are generally used for work purposes it provides comfort to employers that their duty of care obligation is met, and the employee is in a safe maintained vehicle.

Employee Car Ownership Schemes (ECOs)

1. Structure ECO scheme, alternative to car or cash allowance.
2. No company car tax for the employee.
3. Very tax efficient for both the business and employee.

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