Filing date
Benefit in kind returns must be filed by the 15 January in the year following the year in which the benefit was provided or in the month that your business ceased to be an employer.
Completing the benefit in kind return
Benefit in kind returns from 2022
Benefit in kind returns must be filed online.
You can use your own payroll software or you can e-file your return.
Filing your combined employer return
Benefit in kind returns up to 2021
If you need to submit or replace a benefit in kind return for an earlier year please contact the employer customer team for assistance.
Adding benefit in kind calculations to your own payroll software
The details to add benefit in kind to your own payroll software are published on our business to business website and includes:
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the file specification in an XML format
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the formula to calculate each benefit
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all relevant information relating to the data needed to make these calculations
Developers kit on business to business website
Sending benefit in kind returns using your own payroll software
You can download an application from our business to business website to validate, encrypt and send in your benefit in kind returns produced by your own software.
Read the installation notes and then download the application version 4.1.
Employer return applications