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Works bus services

Definitions or restrictions

You provide a bus service for your employees that meets the following conditions.

The service is used mainly for these three types of ‘qualifying journey’:

  • journeys that are wholly or partly between home and workplace
  • journeys that are wholly or partly between workplaces
  • workday journeys between the workplace and shops or other local amenities no more than 10 miles away

The service is:

  • available to all your employees, whether or not they use it
  • used almost entirely by employees and their children
  • provided in a bus with a capacity of 12 or more passengers, or a minibus with a capacity of nine or more passengers

What to report, what to pay

Provided the conditions above are satisfied, you have:

  • no reporting requirements
  • no tax or NICs to pay

Technical guidance

EIM21850: exemption for works buses