PAYE20065 - Employer records: set up employer record: payment card reward scheme

A Payment Card Reward Scheme is

  • A scheme set up by a payment card company, bank or building society to tax payments of cash made to an employee or third party retailer who passes this on to their employee as a reward for the recovery of a lost or stolen payment card or cheque guarantee card

Note: Rewards made to the public are not taxable.

From 6 August 1990 a modified system of PAYE has been available to be operated by those card companies that are members of the Association of Payment Clearing ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº (APACS).

Where card companies taxed the rewards in the normal way through the company’s PAYE schemes this system was not used.

Modified System

Under the modified system the card company

  • Deducts tax at basic rate (no National Insurance Contribution is payable)
  • Is not required to complete forms P14, P45 or P46
  • Gives the recipient a statement / certificate of tax deducted
  • Makes payment to Banking Operations in the normal way
  • Submits a separate annual return showing total gross pay and total tax deducted