HMRC Covid19 Test Benefit in Kind

[Jumblebumblemess]

So Martin Lewis has just announced that if as part of your job your employer gives you a covid19 test that is treated as a benefit in kind and you will be taxed accordingly.

Apparently the Select Committee is going to take this up with the Chancellor but it is an absolute farce that this has happened in the first place.

Nice that we will be treating our carers and workers like this isn't it?

I’ve got a testing centre 5 mins from my house, nobody hardly uses it, I could be tested 3 times a week for free if I wanted to and all the family. They text you the results in 24hrs. When my daughter goes back to school and I am back to work, I think we will get a test every Friday afternoon.

@Alex50 please do it'll keep me in a job

@MaidenMotherCrone you never know, you might be at my testing centre 😊

@Alex50 how can you get tested with no symptoms?

how can you get tested with no symptoms? Covid-19 is the one disease you are supposed to self-diagnose. As I have no medical training, I'm sure my diagnosis could be wrong, the only way to tell is to have a test.

Sorry, what I meant is I thought you had to have symptoms in order to be eligible for a test. I can't understand how you can be allowed to be tested with no symptoms. Even contacts of COVID can't have a test without symptoms, so I can't understand why the OP can be tested when she fancies it?

If sign up for the ZOE/Kings College Covid 19 app then if you report anything symptom (even not a Covid symptom) you will get an email asking you to test. They also randomly invite people with no symptoms to test as well

I was tested at a drive-in centre because I had a fever. However, I'd imagine it's easy to get a test with no symptoms - no one actually checked whether I had a fever, they just took my word for it.

Listening on the radio 80% of medical staff who tested positive had no symptoms.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53320155