I'm wondering whether anyone has had experience of dealing with staff suggestion schemes. Basically its a scheme run by HMRC whereby if an employee generates an idea outside of their normal course of business and it generates financial benefits for the company that employee can receive £5K (Income tax and NI free).
I have a couple of specific questions:
1.Can employees receieve a max of £5K per year or per suggestion scheme? (ie could you run two suggestion schemes a year)
2.What is the scope of "outside their normal course of duties" - there seems to be a potential grey area. Would a sales staff be able to advise on an admin task that saves money relating to the sales process?
