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