Gift aid is a tax-efficient way of making gifts or donations to certain charities or sports clubs. 

Domiciliary care workers can face some challenges when it comes to understanding their minimum wage, tax and benefit positions due to the nature of care work and the travel patterns involved. Here, we give you an overview of some of the main issues and tell you where to get more help.

We set out the main rules that apply when you use your own car or van for business travel. We consider other costs you may incur when travelling on business and how to claim tax relief on them in our general guidance on travel expenses.

If you volunteer – for example, for a charity, or to get some work experience or you take part in a clinical trial or research study, you may receive payments. We explain how these payments are treated for income tax and National Insurance contributions purposes.

There are a variety of schemes offering help towards the costs of childcare. Some of the schemes interact with each other and you can combine them, whereas other schemes can only be claimed on their own.

Tax-free childcare can be used to pay for most types of childcare that is provided by a registered or approved provider.