Time to disappear?

I work for a well-known organisation and am paid more than £8 500 p.a. Due to a slight oversight on my part I have caused a bit of a kerfuffle and the press is on my back. My employer is paying for me to stay in an hotel until the fuss dies down. The hotel porter (who is coincidentally studying for his ATT exams) has suggested that the hotel accommodation represents a taxable benefit-in-kind in my hands.

My questions are: do I have to declare it and what is the position if my employer (for whatever reason) does not put it on my P11D? Also would the position change if my employment were to cease part way through my stay at the hotel?

Taxation readers' advice and thoughts are welcomed.

Query T17 131         –Discman.

Reply by The Jazzman:

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