What is happening to the employment allowance in 2020?

In April 2020, the government are planning to make changes to the employment allowance. Since 2014 many businesses have been able to claim £3,000  per year as a deduction against Class 1 NI, but from April things are changing!

Here is a quick summary

  1. Employers won’t automatically qualify for the EA (Employment Allowance) and must claim it each year. This will mean submitting a declaration confirming that you’ve checked and qualify by meeting the eligibility conditions.
  2. Employer with more than £100k of Class 1 NI won’t qualify
  3. Connected employers won’t qualify – sharing staff, premises or other resources
  4. EA will be counted as State Aid and the maximum state aid allowed is 200,000 euros

So even if items 2 to 4 don’t apply, item 1 will apply to every business wanting to make a claim.

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HMRC changes the rules again on the Employment Allowance!

Business team.

The employment allowance was introduced in April 2014 and employers can save up to £3000 in employers national insurance.

The problem is that HMRC wanted to stop one-person businesses from getting the allowance and from the 6th April 2016 new rules came into place.

However, many one-person business thought that employing another person, for example their Spouse would get round the rules.

So HMRC have tightened the rules a bit more in their Employer Bulletin April 2016 and set out the rules for employing another person.

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