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Do employers have to use the benchmark scale rates?

April 26, 2017benchmark employers rates scale

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Do employers have to use the benchmark scale rates?

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Employers do not have to use the benchmark rates. They can reimburse their employees’ actual expenditure or apply to HMRC to agree a scale rate appropriate for their business needs in a dispensation. However, where an employer wants to use a higher scale rate, it will have to undertake a sampling exercise to show the higher rates are in line with what its employees’ typically spend on subsistence and agree the rate with HMRC.