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Tax-efficient Employee Gifting

Gift points instantly, often tax-free.

“Gift Roarward™ points instantly, for use anywhere globally. Seamlessly buy and allocate points to employees, often tax-free under the Trivial Benefits exemption. Employees can redeem them anywhere! It's that simple.”

Aslan, aslan.io/solutions

The problem

A cash bonus is taxed and NI'd twice over. £100 in the employee's pocket can cost far more once grossed up and employer NIC is added.

What Aslan does

Buy and allocate Roarward™ points, which employees redeem anywhere — often within the Trivial Benefits exemption.

How it works

  1. 1Choose the population, the occasion and the value per employee.
  2. 2Points are allocated in bulk and arrive instantly.
  3. 3Where the Trivial Benefits conditions are met, the gift is exempt from tax and NIC.
  4. 4Employees redeem globally without voucher restrictions.

Employee experience

  • The full face value lands, not the post-tax remainder.
  • Redeemable against anything, not one brand.
  • Instant — no waiting for the next pay run.

Employer experience

  • No gross-up, where the exemption applies.
  • One process instead of buying and distributing vouchers.
  • Auditable allocation records.

How we treat the financial impact

Direct, defensible £ saving versus the grossed-up cash alternative — provided each gift genuinely meets the exemption conditions.

For your selected buyer lens: The clearest hard saving in the stack, with a statutory basis.

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The model

£100 of employee value: cash vs Aslan

Tax-efficient gifting calculator

Your inputs

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£

Above £50 the Trivial Benefits exemption is lost on the whole amount, not just the excess.

Your input
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£

Sets the marginal rate used to gross up the cash alternative.

Your opportunity

£100 of employee value: the cash route vs the Aslan route

Cash through payroll

£160

Gross £139 plus employer NIC, to land £100 net.

Aslan gifting, within the exemption

£100

Face value, where the Trivial Benefits conditions are met.

Aslan's own published figure is that getting £100 more to an employee now costs £180–250 through payroll. Our calculation at a £34,000 salary gives £160.

Cash route, your programme

£191,667

Aslan route

£120,000

Annual saving

£71,667

Employee value delivered

£120,000

Cost per £1 of value, cash

£1.60

Cost per £1 of value, Aslan

£1.00

At £50 per gift, the same budget could fund £71,667 of additional reward capacity versus the cash route.

The exemption is conditional: the gift must cost £50 or less, must not be cash or a cash voucher, must not reward work or performance, and must not be contractual. Your payroll team should confirm eligibility gift by gift.

Why it matters

The cost of moving value to an employee through payroll is the quiet tax on every reward decision. Aslan's stated position is that points can be bought and allocated "often tax-free under the Trivial Benefits exemption". Where that applies, the gap between the two routes is not a soft benefit — it is cash that never leaves the business.

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