Cycle to Work Benefit Scheme - Pros and Cons of Different Programmes

oh dear, sounds like your head of finance is feeding you shit to get you off his back. poor skills.

either that or he is a genuine retard.

A bit of both, I think. He looked into it before I started and seemed to make his mind up back then. His suspicion of the scheme seems both ill-founded and deep-rooted. It's fun trying tho.

Sounds like you're fighting a loosing battle there though.

Yep :-( Worst comes to worst, I can always have a word with my manager and give the CEO a nudge, but I suspect they will cede to his 'expertise'. I'm going to try to get a written confirmation from HMRC that we won't get told off if we take part in the scheme, but I somehow suspect that even this won't be enough.

The guy has mentioned the idea of just giving a loan to employees to buy bike stuff, but I'm not nearly as keen to do this as it loses any of the savings I could have made otherwise. If he does this, I might as well just persuade my gf to get stuff for me through her work...

Ho Hum.