Perquisite: employer paid pilot licence insurance premiums are taxable as employment benefits; compensation for licence loss also taxable. Where an employer pays or reimburses insurance premia for loss of a pilot's licence, that payment is a perquisite and taxable in the pilot's hands; compensation received for loss of licence is also taxable. Completed assessments need not be reopened to tax such perquisites, and earlier contrary guidance is modified.
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Perquisite: employer paid pilot licence insurance premiums are taxable as employment benefits; compensation for licence loss also taxable.
Where an employer pays or reimburses insurance premia for loss of a pilot's licence, that payment is a perquisite and taxable in the pilot's hands; compensation received for loss of licence is also taxable. Completed assessments need not be reopened to tax such perquisites, and earlier contrary guidance is modified.
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