Reward Forum network seminar
Wednesday 05 November 2008
VENUE : Clarendon Room, Brown's Hotel, Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BP
(Please note change of venue to above)
The employee benefit bill can be a major part of the overall reward spend, so it is important that this spend is attracting, retaining and engaging the people needed to sustain high performance working. However, employers can fail to maximise on this spend by providing benefits that are not tax effective or efficient or by not educating their employees about the benefits on offer and the decisions needed to be made.
But it can also be hard for reward and people managers to keep abreast of the recent developments in employee benefits. There are often changes in how benefits can be taxed and suppliers are often coming up with new benefits, or are adjusting existing ones to make them more appealing to employees in a way that still keeps HMRC happy.
Objectives
This event will:
- touch on all of the above angles - tax, communication and some of the recent developments in the benefits field
- examine the steps you can take to ensure your benefit package is tax effective and efficient
- reveal how one employer is educating employees about its benefits and how it communicates the package to them
- explore developments in company cars, pensions, voluntary and flexible benefits
Programme
| 09 45 |
Registration and coffee |
| 10 00 |
Chair's introduction
Charles Cotton, CIPD Adviser, Reward |
| 10 10 |
Speaker: David Reilly, Employer Solutions Client Services Director, Grant Thornton
Tax efficient and effective employee benefits
- what tax breaks are there for various benefits?
- creating a benefit package appealing both to the employer and its employees and acceptable to HMRC
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| 10 30 |
Speaker: Julie Skidmore, Financial Education and Communications Manager, GlaxoSmithKline
Financial education and communication at GSK
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| 11 00 |
Q&A Session |
| 11 15 |
Coffee break and networking |
| 11 40 |
Speaker: Chris Bolan, Director, Compass Reward Consulting
Company cars: options and implications
- the options available
- tax implications
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| 12 00 |
Speaker: Philip Hutchinson, Head of Corporate SIPP Sales, Pointon York SIPP Solutions Ltd
Group SIPPs - the new flex?
- what are they and what's so good about them?
- when are group SIPPs appropriate or inappropriate?
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| 12 20 |
Speaker: Paul Ashcroft, Principal, Mercer
Voluntary and flexible benefits: latest developments
- what are the latest developments?
- how do they make voluntary or flexible benefits more, or less, attractive?
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| 12 40 |
Q&A Session |
| 13 00 |
Lunch, networking and close |
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Booking
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