Someone has to sort the Christmas gifts this year

This site helps the person given that job at a firm of five to fifty people work out what suppliers will sell, what stays tax-free, and what each gift actually costs. It sells nothing itself.

Where to start

The questions you actually need answered

Each card leads to the specific answer for staff gifts, client gifts, suppliers, ordering times or your own budget, with the source and date behind each figure.

Staff gifts and the tax-free limit

Check whether a staff gift stays inside the trivial benefit exemption, and what happens if it goes over.

Check the staff gift rules

Which HMRC rule applies

Enter a gift's value and recipient to find the HMRC rule that governs it, and the page to check it against.

Find the rule for your gift

What suppliers will sell you

Compare stated minimum order quantities from named suppliers against the size of list you actually have.

Compare supplier minimums

When to order for December

See quoted lead times for branded and pre-made gifts at list sizes of twenty to fifty people.

Check December lead times

The real cost per gift

Work out the total cost once delivery and origination are spread across your list, and whether each gift still counts as tax-free.

Work out your cost per gift