Compensation for injuries at work
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Do you have to report compensation payments made to employees to HMRC?
According to HMRC’s rules, if your employee is injured at work and you pay them compensation as a result of their injury, you don’t need to report these payments to HMRC or pay additional tax or National Insurance as long as the following conditions apply:
- The payment is in return for the employee’s agreement not to make a legal claim against you
- You and the employee have discussed and negotiated an appropriate amount of compensation to be paid
- You would have been required to make a similar compensation payment to a member of the public if they had suffered a similar injury at your business premises
- The employee isn’t automatically entitled to the payment as a result of their employment contract.
As long as the above conditions apply to the compensation claim, you don’t need to report this as a benefit to HMRC. That is because HMRC doesn’t consider them to be earnings. However, if they do form part of the employment contract terms, they would be eligible under National Insurance purposes.
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This page was last updated on 06/11/2018.