Part 4Employment income: exemptions

Chapter 3Exemptions: other transport, travel and subsistence

244Cycles and cyclist’s safety equipment

1

No liability to income tax arises by virtue of Chapter 10 of Part 3 (taxable benefits: residual liability to charge) in respect of the provision for an employee of a cycle or cyclist’s safety equipment if conditions A to C are met.

2

Condition A is that there is no transfer of the property in the cycle or equipment in question.

3

Condition B is that the employee uses the cycle or equipment in question mainly for qualifying journeys.

4

Condition C is that cycles are available generally to employees of the employer concerned or, as the case may be, cyclist’s safety equipment is so available to them.

5

In this section “cycle” has the meaning given by section 192(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52), and “cyclist” has a corresponding meaning.