Below are details of allowable expenses that can be claimed through our Company.

If guidelines are not followed, individuals may be separately assessed and found liable for tax on any taxable benefits.

Your place of work must qualify as a temporary workplace if travel, subsistence and mileage expenses are to be deducted against your tax.

24 month Rule

This rule applies if you are travelling from your home to you place of contract. If you believe your contract will not exceed 24 months, then travel can be tax deductable.

Any contracts that exceed 24 months or are renewed to exceed 24 months, fall outside the 24 month rule and travel expenses can no longer be tax deductable.

Subsistence

You must be working at a temporary workplace and not staying overnight for this to be claimed.

• Up to £6.50 per day for breakfast if your travel commences before 6.30am
• Up to £6.50 if you work at least 5 hours a day
• Up to £14 if you work more than 10 hours a day.

When staying away from home, you can claim for receipted evening meals. This can only be claimed if work time means you are away over your normal meal time.

Accommodation

• Up to £45 per night when staying within the UK and Eire but outside the M25
• Up to £55 per night when staying within the M25
• Up to £65 per night when staying outside the UK and Eire.

When working away from home, accomodation and breakfast can be claimed.

• £110 per night staying within the M25
• £90 per night outside the M25
• £120 per night outside the UK and Eire.

When receipted accomodation has been claimed, you may be able to claim for an unreceipted allowance for meals and other incidental expenses.

• Up to £20 per night when staying within the UK and Eire or
• Up to £30 per night when staying outside the UK and Eire.

Incidentals Expenses

The maximum for incidental expenses is £5 per day in the UK and £10 per day overseas. This covers costs such as laundry, personal telephone calls and newspapers. Receipts do not have to be provided but this is not a round sum allowance.

Mileage

For travel expenses, mileage can be claimed. This includes travel to and from your place of work and any other business miles (in accordance with the 24 month rule).

Engine cc	First 10000 miles	10001 miles plus
Up to 1500	40p	25p
Over 2000	40p	25p
Passengers	5p per mile per passenger
Motorbike	24p	24p
Bicycle	20p	20p

Rail, Bus and air travel to your place of work can be claimed, but receipts are required.

* Parking costs can also be claimed but receipts are required.

Stationary and Books

Where used wholly, necessarily and exclusively in the performance of your duties then books and staionary can be claimed. Receipts must be provided.

Training

Certain types of training can be claimed. To qualify as tax deductible expense it has to be necessary for you to complete in order to continue your contract. This cannot be claimed if training is for your improvement.

If you wish to be part of a pension scheme, please contact our office where more information will be provided.

On registration, you must agree with your agency whether you wish to be paid weekly or monthly.

Once this has been confirmed, our weekly fee will be £30.00. If you would rather monthly, the fee is only £60.00. Of course the monthly option is more cost affective, saving you £25 per month.

 

Holiday Pay

You will be entitled to 24 days’ paid annual holiday (inclusive of Public Holidays), You cannot take more holiday leave than you have accrued at the time of such holiday.

You will not be permitted to carry over unused holiday entitlement into the following year.

Your hourly pay rate is inclusive of your holiday pay so you will not be paid for any time not worked, unless you have notified us in writing that you wish a percentage of your [fortnightly/monthly] pay to be held back to be paid at such times as you take holiday.

When you wish to take holiday you must submit a completed holiday request form to us to enable us to keep records of holiday taken. Holiday must be taken at times convenient to the client and on dates which will not be detrimental to the successful completion of the assignment for which you are employed.

Further details of annual and public holidays can be provided.

Sick Pay

If you have any absence due to sickness, for seven calendar days or less you must complete a self certification form and send this to us as soon as possible.

If you are absent due to sickness for eight calendar days or longer, a medical certificate signed by your doctor must be forwarded to us. Further medical certificates should be sent thereafter as required, to ensure that the entire period of absence is duly covered by appropriate medical certificates.

If you are absent from work because of sickness or injury you will be paid Statutory Sick Pay, provided you meet the qualifying conditions and have followed the correct absence notification and certification procedures.

For the purposes of Statutory Sick Pay scheme the agreed ‘qualifying days’ are those days that you have normally worked for us over the period of 12 weeks prior to the date of sickness.

Further details of the rules and procedures in respect of absence due to sickness or injury can be provided.

You may wish to sign an 'Individual Agreement to Opt Out of the 48 hour regulation'.

This means you do not wish to be restricted to working a maximum of 48 hours per week.

This only applies to the 48 hour week and not any other aspect of the Working Times Regulations.