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Double counting of car and fuel benefits

The government has announced the planned introduction into legislation of Extra Statutory Concession (ESC) A104. ESC A104 was introduced in July 2004 to remove an anomaly which could potentially have resulted in an unintended tax charge on employees earning less than £8500pa where provided with car and/or fuel benefits. Under current law an additional tax charge could result where such benefits were provided by the use of a company credit card and/or provision of a cheque by the employer. In determining whether the employee earned above the £8500 limit and was therefore exempt from tax on most benefits it was necessary to include the value of the benefit under both the rules relating to the provision of non cash vouchers and also under the standard company car/fuel benefit charges (a potential double counting).
 

Our view
This simply places on to a statutory basis a relief previously provided by concession. The introduction into legislation is welcome as it provides certainty but will have no practical impact as the relief was already available by concession.