New System Items for Salary Sacrifices
Providing employees with bicycles as part of the Bike-to-Work scheme or travel passes for commuting to work can be great ways to offer tax-free benefits to employees while also encouraging more sustainable travel solutions. You may wish to recoup some or all of the costs associated with these benefits by offering employees a salary sacrifice. Our new system items simplify the process of correctly recording and reporting these salary sacrifices.
These new system items are set up to automatically reduce the gross pay that is reported to Revenue by the amount of the salary sacrifice for the period. The reduced gross pay also means that the salary sacrifice for the period correctly reduces the PAYE, USC and PRSI automatically calculated by the system, without you needing to manually set up a custom item for this.
The Bike to Work – Salary Sacrifice system item allows you to spread the salary sacrifice over multiple pay periods, since these are usually large once-off purchases. You can record the total value of the benefit that needs to be recouped through a salary sacrifice and how much of this will be recouped on each payslip. The system will then automatically keep track of the balance that still needs to be recouped in forthcoming pay periods.
For information on how to use these system items, refer to the following help pages:
More information on the concepts of Bike to Work, travel passes and salary sacrifices can be found in the following articles:
We hope these new system items make your payroll processing even easier.
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