ECH10020 - Employer Support Team: When Advice will be Provided to Local Compliance

The EST will provide technical advice to Local Compliance on all employment related matters. Some examples of the areas in which the EST will provide help are

• Status
• Termination payments
• Directors loan accounts
• Entertaining
• Readily Convertible Assets - NIC aspects
• Salary Sacrifice
• Funded Unapproved Retirement Benefit Schemes (FURBS)
• Relocation expenses
• NIC Earnings periods
• Accommodation/Property
• Pensions
• Car schemes

• Residency
• Private family trusts
• Share Schemes
• NIC issues
• Benefits (misc.)
• Statutory payments
• Regulation 80/Section 8 Notices.

The EST will only accept a referral if all possible attempts to resolve the query have already been made by the team making the referral.

The Manager in the Customer Group making the referral is responsible for making sure that referrals made to the EST are complete and necessary ( ECH6045).