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Employees have historically enjoyed the benefit of a tax concession which allows his or her legal fees to be paid by the employer and to escape tax when they are paid as part of a settlement agreement
HMRC has instructed employers, from 6 April 2011, to withhold income tax at the appropriate rate of tax from termination payments made after issue of a P45
