iMac discount dilemma

Fusion

Are you sure you can do it on a salary sacrifice? I know that NHS employees get apple discount (around 6% on imacs) but surely the UK govt will not let you buy a personal machine tax free. I run my own business and Im not even allowed to do that. Let alone get all the perks of being employed by a government organisation and then get tax of hardware too.

smithfield11 said:

. I run my own business and Im not even allowed to do that. Let alone get all the perks of being employed by a government organisation and then get tax of hardware too.

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Depending on how your business is set up, you can in some cases. If you are registered for VAT, then you can claim back the VAT element. Even if you are on a flat rate scheme (where you pay a smaller percentage of VAT based on your business type) you can still claim, back VAT (20%) on capital expenditure if your total single purchase is over £2000 (inc VAT). This can be Mac plus accessories providing the these total at least £2000 on a single invoice. This reduces the net cost by just over £333 for a £2000 purchase

Even if you are not registered for VAT, this sort of business essential purchase offsets profit and so reduces tax on profit.

Oh yeah I know I can write it off against profit and I know I can claim the VAT back but if I was buying an imac to keep at home and not in the office which would be used as a general home computer Im not allowed to claim anything vs that as it isnt a company purchase.

Big uproar about tax evasion in the UK at the minute and they're letting full time employed workers to write home computing equipment off against their income. Dunno where that works.

To get the discount I'd ring up and maybe make a phone order, I dont think they have an NHS discount section online. You can get it in store if they will allow you to take a fusion drive as an option.

My other question here is how can they be ordering imacs when they arent out yet?

I'm guessing they're internally just putting it all in place and will order the imacs when they become available. Knowing the NHS you could end up waiting a while.