Employers face benefit in kind difficulties

EMPLOYERS may find the new Benefit in Kind (BIK) proposals impossible to implement, a leading employer representative has warned.

And the proposals to include company vans as well as other items such as health insurance, creche support and lunch vouchers were condemned as totally inequitable.

Mark Fielding, chief executive, of the Irish Small and Medium Enterprise Association, (ISME) said the outlined proposals are “crazy” and he warned that employers may refuse to implement the plan.