28 March 2007
When PAYE compliance officers discover that employers have made payments to or for employees without deducting tax, they calculate the tax and National Insurance liabilities on the basis that the payments made are net of tax. So far as I can see this has no statutory basis, but it makes logical sense and meets the general law principle that compensation for losses should put the claimant in the position they would have been.
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