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Entertainment ― clients

Produced by a Tolley Employment Tax expert
Employment Tax
Guidance

Entertainment ― clients

Produced by a Tolley Employment Tax expert
Employment Tax
Guidance
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Introduction

Employers may regularly entertain clients, customers or suppliers. The consequences of such entertainment for both the third parties and any employees of the company are considered within this guidance note.

Entertainment means any provision of hospitality.

HMRC guidance is from EIM32565CT.

Client entertaining

When are the costs of client entertaining deductible for tax and NIC?

Client entertaining is charged as a benefit on employees unless the following applies:

  1. •

    the deduction is disallowed in calculating the employer’s profits from the trade, profession or vocation (eg it can’t be deducted in the employer’s corporate tax return), or

  2. •

    the deduction is disallowed in calculating the employer’s expenses of management or similar, such expenses then being deducted in the employer’s profits from trade, or

  3. •

    the

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