Rachel Reeves will Steuervorteile für Arbeitnehmer kürzen, die Gehaltsverzichtsprogramme nutzen, um Fahrräder zu kaufen
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/12/rachel-reeves-to-cut-tax-benefits-for-workers-using-salary-sacrifice-schemes-to-buy-bikes
Von MindHead78
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This is such a self defeating exercise in total bollocks. Any little thing a working person can do to save money here and there and get a deal they destroy.
That’s it. Absolutely destroy your most productive people.
Rachel Reeves will be on her bike after this budget
I can’t wait for the actual budget to come out so people can stop crying and bitching.
Scrapping the barrel to serve her own goal! Hope she’s out after this budget
If there’s one thing the right wing vote hate, it’s cyclists.
It doesn’t say what the new limit is, so doesn’t really give any indication how much effect this will have on
As a person who likes bikes and is in the upper tax bracket…they’re right.
If I’m buying a bike on C2W, it’s not for commuting. It’s because I want to save a load of cash on a 5k mountain bike.
I could just about justify it up to maybe a 2.5k e-commuter
When she has fleeced us all in taxes to the point of poverty, the economy will cease to exist bc no one has any money to spend! 🤣 Nice one Rachel! 😡
So shes going to cut it for my bosses boss who buys £10k bikes and comes to work late on his bike as he showers and gets changed, not early to account for the faff, right?
When I did cycle to work, I couldn’t do it until i got a pay rise as it would bring me below minimum wage otherwise.
The article mentions 4k luxury bikes, i think she is short by several thousand. A decent cargo bike can be at 4k.
It should be designed to be extremely beneficial to the lowest earners, the ones who can’t afford a car or a second car and rely on public transport. Then it should be tapered depending on the type of bike e.g EV or cargo. Finally, it really should be beneficial to bikes with a UK pr eu supply chain. Cheap bikes from China with parts not readily available lead to longer and more costly repairs.
I’m kinda getting to that point where I think government just needs to stop spending as much money because they want to tax every fucking thing.
How many people bitching about this also bitch about cyclists I wonder.
The cycle to work scheme wasn’t even available to those on minium and low wages, the actual people who would benefit most from it.
The already struggling British bike industry will now collapse. Bit like all other industries. Due to political choices.
Let’s do anything other than cut handouts for the unproductive.
Oh no, not the loophole we all use to get a discount on an expensive mountain bike
I didn’t realise the £1000 cap had been removed. Re-introducing a cap or only allowing financial clawback of lower rate tax seem more sensible ways of bringing abuse of the scheme under control. Completely killing off a relatively cheap scheme which is one of the few high visibility good things the government does to help workers is a dreadful idea, but if it is just a new cap then meh.
I can see them sticking an upper limit on non e-bikes to stop people buying £8k racing bikes that will never see an office bike rack.
But my wife had a fairly expensive e cargo bike on C2W because she used it to transport the kids to and from nursery then on to work. And she did that because she works in the NHS so didn’t have any parking available..
I mean… We’re scraping the barrel now aren’t we. Just don’t go for the obvious ones
I wonder how many people who got a bike on this scheme, actually use it to bike to work, and especially considering alot still WFH
I hadn’t realised the limit had been scrapped for this. Making it unlimited does seem a bit extreme.
I made use of CtW about 8 years ago. The cap then was £1,000 and even then I felt I was taking the piss a little with the bike I bought. It was far too good as *just* a commuter, and I did buy it with weekend rides in mind (but did still use it to get to work during the week).
I can sort of see the argument that if the scheme exists, it should allow for “different” bikes, like cargo and ones that can also carry kids, but those seem like such tiny edge cases for genuine users and so a higher limit does encourage profiteers (who can afford it).
Maybe a compromise is to keep it “unlimited”, but cap the salary sacrifice at £1,000 (or whatever is now reasonable given inflation). That way, you can still get an interest free loan to buy a bike (so spreading the cost), but only £1,000 is tax-efficient.
I don’t think that this tinkering is going to solve our problems somehow
Seems like a backwards step to me. We need to encourage more active travel for both the health and environmental benefits.
I swear she’s just looking for things that don’t benefit the super rich. Honestly, every single thing that might slightly benefit the middle class it feels like she’s coming for. I’m starting to understand why Labour are so rarely in power. No vision, no plan. Absolutely fucked a once in a generation chance to actually do something good. So disappointing.
I got a bike and a computer offof salary sacrifice schemes back in like 2006. It’s not like you don’t still pay for the items. you just pay slightly less tax.
I think they are good ways to nudge behaviour the government wants. cycling is a behaviour that i want the government to want to nudge.
higher earners using them to buy fancy bikes can only do that because they earn enough to buy a fancy bike in the first place.
it would be fair if they could at least use salary sacrifice to buy part of that bike.
I think that cargo bikes should he treated differently to high spec road bikes. the latter is definitely a luxury. cargo bikes could be an entire car off the road.
Probably sticking my head over the parapet here but am I the only one who thought this scheme was always a bit rum anyway?
It’s great if you can cycle to work (or enjoy cycling and want a pre-tax bike) but I’m not really sure what the purpose of the special dispensation for purchases of bikes is. Environmental reasons I suppose but if that’s the case I think they should offer pre-tax public transport payments as well. Not to mention there are plenty of people who could never cycle or get public transport to work.
I’m not saying it’s a bad policy per se, it just always felt a bit unfair that some peoples transport to work can be funded pre-tax. Anecdotally, of the few people I know that use it, they are all cycling enthusiasts and basically managed to get their main hobby part-funded by tax payers.
Once again people havent read the article. This isnt scrapping the scheme, its potentially reducing the limit on what bike you can buy as people were taking the piss and buying super expensive bikes on it.
Thats a good thing. Once example is people buying a £10,000 bike on it. You dont need a bike that expensive to bike to work.
Nice, that should pay for an extra few thousand to sit on benefits.
God this is dumb. It will raise very little money and undermine a scheme that should be boosted, eg to get more people exercising and less cars on the road. Deck chairs and titanic springs to mind