--- --- Stop Paying NIC You Don’t Owe. National Insurance hikes are eating into your margins. If you're running a UK hospitality business and still paying employer NIC on service charges or tips, you’re giving money to HMRC that could legally stay in your business. The fix isn’t a loophole. It’s tronc—structured correctly, managed independently, and aligned with the E24 guidance. But most schemes don’t retain up when reviewed. And when they fail, so does the NIC exemption.This isn’t payroll theory. It’s measurable tax relief. We run full tronc compliance and NIC reduction services for bars, ca
fés, hotels, restaurant groups, and venues across the UK. 📞 BOOK A CALL --- Our Services We help hospitality owners cut down National Insurance liabilities through tronc scheme implementation, correction, and HMRC-aligned oversight. Every service is focused on protecting your business and keeping more of your revenue where it belongs— in your account. NIC Reduction Audit We start with a top-down review of your current tipping and service charge handling. This includes checking whether you’re paying NIC unnecessarily on distributions that could fall outside your payroll. If you are, we show yo
u exactly where and how it’s happening. --- Tronc Scheme Setup or Repair If you’ve never had a tronc scheme or yours doesn’t meet HMRC’s separation criteria, we fix it. That includes independent troncmaster appointment, non-employer-directed allocation, employee consultation documentation, and clear separation from rota-based influence. Independent Troncmaster Appointment Most invalid schemes fail because the troncmaster isn’t truly independent. We assess your internal team or assist in sourcing an external party that passes HMRC review and removes the employer’s influence from the allocation
of service charges or tips. 📞 BOOK A CALL --- Payroll Code Audit for Tip Payments If your payroll software or provider is rolling tips into standard earnings, the NIC liability stays. We go through payroll line by line to isolate tronc payments, remove them from contracted wage calculations, and ensure they’re labelled correctly under PAYE. Tronc Policy Drafting and Legal Formatting You can’t just say you have a tronc—it has to be built around documented fairness, transparency, and employee participation. We draft policies that stand up to inspection, meet the requirements of the Tipping Act
2023, and keep you on the right side of E24. --- Service Charge and Tip Allocation Frameworks You need a transparent, independent, and fair distribution system—hourly, point-based, or hybrid. We build out or correct your scheme based on workforce input, HMRC-approved logic, and fair reward principles that make staff and auditors happy. E24 Legal Compliance Review Most accountants aren’t reading HMRC manuals. We are. We run your entire scheme against E24 line by line to ensure that you’re not exposed to backdated tax risk. If your scheme’s off by even one clause, NIC is due. We make sure it isn
’t. 📞 BOOK A CALL --- NIC Savings Report & Implementation Timeline Once we’ve reviewed your full scheme, we provide a clear, short-form report showing where savings come from, how much, and when they start. We also lay out what needs to be actioned to get there, how long it takes, and who needs to be involved.Book a Consultation and Keep What You’re Overpaying in NIC --- Why Choose Us We don’t offer general accounting. We focus on tronc, NIC, and compliance—and only for hospitality. Our job is to make sure you’re not one of the operators throwing thousands down the drain every year through mi