Sentences with phrase «trivial benefits»

Moreover, many credit cards include a handful of these relatively trivial benefits — be sure to check your card.

A survey of 1,500 UK workers and business leaders by One4all Rewards, as part of a campaign to raise awareness of HMRC's Trivial Benefits Allowance, revealed that 71 % of education bosses would like to give regular bonuses and tokens to their employees in a bid to boost employee morale, motivation and loyalty.

However, only 11 % of education businesses are currently making use of the tax exemption on trivial benefits.

The group supports the introduction of new, clearer, statutory rules on trivial benefits because it will reduce the costs and administration burdens for employers and HMRC — and also mean employees do not face an unexpected tax charge on items below # 50 and which meet other new conditions for the exemption.

«Legislation for tax credits, Universal Credit and means - tested benefits should be amended, if necessary, to ensure that exempt trivial benefits are ignored for these purposes.

Breastfeeding provides significant health benefits in developing countries as opposed to trivial benefits in industrialized countries.

I've been making these arguments for years: breastfeeding promotion campaigns like the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) violate women's autonomy, re-inscribe privilege and are not justified by the trivial benefits of breastfeeding.

In my earlier post I talked about how it's not a trivial benefit that Workbar at Staples locations mean you can park in a lot without worrying about finding a parking space and feeding a meter (or worrying about whether your client or business associates can find a parking space and feed a meter).

«The new statutory exemption will help to clarify what is a trivial benefit in kind and we welcome a movement towards a more «principles based system» rather than the current subjective one.

This is important, as the employee in receipt of the trivial benefit will have no record of its value.»

LITRG believes the current rules governing what constitutes a tax - free trivial benefit are too subjective and can leave employees shocked and confused as to why they end up having to foot a tax bill for receiving a minor item.

A trivial benefit will qualify for the exemption if it meets four conditions: it costs less than # 50, it is not cash or a cash voucher, it is not part of a salary sacrifice arrangement and it is not provided in recognition of the employment.

Thus, the district contended, anything more than a trivial benefit was sufficient.

Not exact matches

Upgrading your furniture may seem like a trivial improvement, but the long - term benefits are significant.

For people expecting to retire at around age 65, and to live for another 15 years or more, this will provide for only a trivial supplement to Social Security benefits.

Thus we support a reduction in the speed limit because it will «save 7,466 lives every year,» though we would not do so if we recognized that such a law merely reduces the probability that an individual will die in a car accident from.0005 to.0004, a benefit too trivial to be noticed and, for any individual faced with the choice, far below the value of the additional driving time it entails.

Graduate school can increase your mental stamina, boost your professional credibility and enable you to dominate one category of Trivial Pursuit, but its greatest benefit can be summarized in one word: access.

Even you yourself acknowledge that breastfeeding has real benefits, even if you believe them to be «trivial.»

I think the benefits of breastfeeding may be overstated but I don't think I'd describe them as trivial.

The benefits of breastfeeding in industrialized countries are trivial.

We, at the Strategic Thinkers Network (STRANEK) interested in bringing clarity to good governance, political and economic issues in the country as well as at all times ensure that the resources of this country are judiciously used for the benefit of the people of Ghana tend to see these accusations against Bugri Naabu as not trivial.

«We support the proposal to put in statute a definition of «trivial» benefits in kind to be exempted from tax.

The squeezed middle, the working poor (6.5 million in their households today) and the jobless are afflicted by pay freezes and pay cuts, energy bill hikes, accelerated private rent increases, a swelling housing benefit budget that subsidises rich landlords but not the tenants, waiting lists for a home swollen by the bedroom tax and only half the houses needed being built, nearly a million of the jobless sanctioned last year and deprived of all their unemployment benefit for 4 or 13 weeks for trivial infringements, the seriously disabled suffering big benefit cuts for not getting jobs they manifestly can't do, to name but some.

Experts believe a trade deal with the US would be ultimately quite trivial, yielding benefits of just 0.3 % of GDP.

Huge numbers of Americans take a multivitamin, but the potencies of the individual nutrients are usually so trivial that no health benefit is derived.

Your «cons» of this product are trivial compared to its benefits.

Must districts merely ensure that students receive some educational benefit, however trivial it may be?

A benefit will not arise to the donor in circumstances where the benefits actually received are of a trivial value that can not be put to a use, say, a lapel badge, and is not marketable.

The notion that students with disabilities in some states are due only «de minimus» (just more - than - trivial) progress or in other states «some educational benefit» from their public schools reflects and perpetuates the belief that having a disability makes you less worthy of an education than your peers without disabilities.

The education provided must have more than trivial education benefit.

Yet, my parents found these issues trivial compared to the benefits of my bilingual education experience.

Bets like this are useful ways of examining confidence in predictions — any trivial wager would be accepted immediately since there is nothing to lose, while having it be something more substantial requires reflection on the benefit of accepting (public respect) vs the probable loss.

For example, my post showing that the economic benefits of «keeping sea lanes open» could not justify more than a trivial proportion of current naval expenditure, got hardly any substantive responses (apart from tiger - repelling rocks), but a great many saying «what about the pirates?».

When it turns out that this (Kyoto phase one) has large projected costs and trivial projected benefits, the proper reaction is to reject that plan.

This trivial example illustrates the discount rate: it is simply the interest rate you would accrue on current costs (or benefits) until some future point in time when the benefits (or costs) come due.

This «crowdsourcing» his water supply was a trivial exploitation and might even have benefitted his visitors by helping them (ever so slightly) stay in shape.

The minimal amount of money that is required to cover something so important and essential really becomes trivial when the possible benefits are evaluated.