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Staff Entertainment (including Christmas)

• Money spent on entertaining employees is tax deductible and includes directors, partners and sole traders (where they attend a staff function)
• However there is catch, staff entertainment is a taxable benefit in kind.
• New rules from 6 April 2016 allow an employer to spend £50 per employee without a benefit in kind tax charge.
• What about this Christmas then? For an annual event there will be tax relief for the business and no charge to employee if the cost is no more than £150 per annum per employee including Vat.