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Volunteers and voluntary workers

Produced by a Tolley Employment Tax expert
Employment Tax
Guidance

Volunteers and voluntary workers

Produced by a Tolley Employment Tax expert
Employment Tax
Guidance
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Tax and national insurance

If a volunteer or voluntary worker receives no payment or benefits at all in connection with the voluntary work, the question of tax and national insurance obviously does not arise.

If the volunteer incurs expenses in carrying out the voluntary work, and is either paid in advance or reimbursed for those expenses (and nothing more), the expenses or reimbursements are not taxable or subject to NIC. Similarly, if the organisation for which the volunteer works makes reasonable payments to cover expenses which the volunteer would not otherwise have incurred, such as the cost of travelling from home to the place where the voluntary work is done, there is no tax or NIC due.

Organisations using volunteers may want to use HMRC’s scale rates to cover volunteer’s travel and subsistence costs, as these are accepted by HMRC as being ‘reasonable’ and should not of themselves trigger any argument from HMRC that there is a liability to tax. See the Excessive levels of expenses guidance note for more on the using HMRC’s scale rates.

However,

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