IR176 changes

Response to David Martin:

Quoted message said:

Apparently (according to an email I have just recieved) the "cyclist's
friend" has removed the tax concession for home computers in the
budget, effective from 6 April 2006. This was just as my employer had
decided to roll out the scheme.

Does anyone know if this also affects the cycle scheme as the tax break
is the same?

Apparently not:

http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/daily-news/article.php?id=6527

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David Martin said:

Apparently (according to an email I have just recieved) the "cyclist's
friend" has removed the tax concession for home computers in the
budget, effective from 6 April 2006. This was just as my employer had
decided to roll out the scheme.

Yes, this was reported in a few places yesterday.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/03/23/hci_scrapped/

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1737193,00.html

Schemes which are in place can continue. How far along was your company
with this?

Quoted message said:

Does anyone know if this also affects the cycle scheme as the tax break
is the same?

Not affected yet AFAIK, but from the above I guess it depends if the
scheme becomes wildly popular as a tax break among high-earners who
would have bought bicycles anyway.

The HCI wasn't very popular until the vendors started to engage
employers to push it. Maybe if the big bike manufacturers and people
like H******s got their weight behind it it might become popular enough
to be abolished.

Mike K Smith said:

David Martin said:

Apparently (according to an email I have just recieved) the "cyclist's
friend" has removed the tax concession for home computers in the
budget, effective from 6 April 2006. This was just as my employer had
decided to roll out the scheme.

Yes, this was reported in a few places yesterday.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/03/23/hci_scrapped/

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1737193,00.html

Schemes which are in place can continue. How far along was your company
with this?

Just about to announce it to staff. we can still participate if we
apply within the next two weeks.

...d

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/03/23/hci_scrapped/

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1737193,00.html

Schemes which are in place can continue. How far along was your company
with this?

Just about to announce it to staff. we can still participate if we
apply within the next two weeks.

Although I can't remember the details, I did look at the HCi PC scheme a
couple of years ago. I seemed to think it was a bit of a rip off.

Has anyone had positive experiences of it (PC)?

I didnt know the one about bikes.!

-Kristian

Kristian Davies said:

Although I can't remember the details, I did look at the HCi PC scheme a
couple of years ago. I seemed to think it was a bit of a rip off.

My wife's employers offer the computer scheme. That particular offer
was good value, if you waned the spec of PC that was on offer and all
the software they had bundled.

If you were going to simply bin the software, it was a not
particularly good price for a machine I didn't particularly want.

regards, Ian SMith
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/03/23/hci_scrapped/

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1737193,00.html

Schemes which are in place can continue. How far along was your company
with this?

Just about to announce it to staff. we can still participate if we
apply within the next two weeks.

Although I can't remember the details, I did look at the HCi PC scheme a
couple of years ago. I seemed to think it was a bit of a rip off.

Has anyone had positive experiences of it (PC)?

Yup. Got it. No problem. (Evesham laptop for erindoors)

IanH