Michelle Dunne

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Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam · Michelle Dunne, Employment Tax Director with Grant Thornton · 10 Dec 2025 podcast

They also mention things like staff sports days.

So those events are fine, they're not going to attract a benefit in kind once it falls into that reasonable and open to all.

The risk might be where it doesn't fall within that concession.

So staff entertainment that is not within those concessionary parameters will attract a benefit in kind that needs to be levied by the employer.

Yeah what happens here Joe really is that an employer might be selected for an audit and that might be through revenues detection system or perhaps it could be a random audit and through that audit process revenue will analyse the books and records of a company so they will download and request information pertaining to staff entertainment so it might be denoted in general ledgers you might have company credit cards you know where the narrative is and

to something that might be like a staff entertainment event.

And revenue will look for backup and support around whether that perhaps is client entertainment or staff entertainment.

And the onus is on the employer to provide that proof.

That's right, yeah.

And revenue even goes far as in our guidance to talk about where benefit in kind is levied.

You effectively take the cost of that event and divide it to the employees that attend it, if benefit in kind is due on it, and charge it to the employee.

Exactly.

And we've seen employers move to a situation where they perhaps limit the voucher.

The limit on the voucher was €1,000.

So that voucher might be limited to £1,000 to give an employer scope to provide other benefits so they're not exceeding those limits.

It does.

And it was a case that came out in October 23 and it centred around Domino's pizza delivery drivers.

And effectively the case, the judge in that case determined that the delivery drivers were employees for tax purposes, i.e.

they should be paid on payroll.

Now, although the case centres around

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