Finance Act 1988

Part IU.K. Amendments of the Taxes Act 1988

IntroductoryU.K.

1U.K.The Taxes Act 1988 shall have effect subject to the following amendments.

Commencement of trade etc.U.K.

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Discontinuance of trade etc.U.K.

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UnderpaymentsU.K.

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Textual Amendments

F3Sch. 3 para. 4 repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 723(1)(a)(b) of the amending Act) by Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1), s. 723, Sch. 8 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 7)

Additional relief in respect of childrenU.K.

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Textual Amendments

F4Sch. 3 para. 5 repealed (27.7.1999 with effect for the year 2000-01 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1999 c. 16, s. 139, Sch. 20 Pt. III(4), note

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Textual Amendments

F5Sch. 3 para. 6 repealed (27.7.1999 with effect for the year 2000-01 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1999 c. 16, s. 139, Sch. 20 Pt. III(4), note

Widow’s bereavement allowanceU.K.

7(1)The section set out in sub-paragraph (2) below shall have effect in substitution for section 262 (widow’s bereavement allowance) in relation to deaths occurring during the year 1989-90, and the section set out in sub-paragraph (3) below shall have effect in substitution for that section in relation to deaths occurring during the year 1990-91 or any subsequent year of assessment.U.K.

(2)The section first referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above is—

262 Widow’s bereavement allowance.

Where a man dies in the year 1989-90 and for that year he is entitled to the higher (married person’s) relief under section 257(1), or would be so entitled but for an election under section 261 or 287, his widow shall be entitled—

(a)for that year of assessment, to a deduction from her total income of an amount equal to the amount referred to in section 259(2), and

(b)(unless she marries again before the beginning of it) for the year 1990-91, to a deduction from her total income of an amount equal to the amount specified in section 257A(1) for that year.

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Textual Amendments

F6Sch. 3 para. 7(3) repealed (27.7.1999 with effect for the year 2001-02 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1999 c. 16, s. 139, Sch. 20 Pt. III(5), note 2

Blind person’s allowanceU.K.

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Textual Amendments

F7Sch. 3 para. 8 omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 7 of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 1 para. 6(b)

Life assurance premiumsU.K.

9U.K.For the year 1990-91 and subsequent years of assessment section 266 (life assurance premiums) shall have effect with the substitution—

(a)in subsection (9), of the word “spouse” for the words “wife (but not the husband)”, and

(b)in subsection (11)(a), of the words “spouse, widow, widower or children or other dependants of any such employee or person,” for the word “wife” onwards.

Payments securing annuitiesU.K.

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Textual Amendments

F8Sch. 3 para. 10 omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 7 of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 1 para. 6(b)

Married couples living togetherU.K.

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Textual Amendments

Business expansion schemeU.K.

12(1)For the year 1990-91 and subsequent years of assessment section 304 (business expansion scheme: husband and wife) shall have effect—U.K.

(a)with the omission of subsections (1) to (4), and

(b)with the substitution of the following subsections for subsections (5) and (6)—

(5)Subsection (1) of section 299 shall not apply to a disposal made by a married man to his wife or a married woman to her husband at a time when they are living together; but where shares issued to one of them have been transferred to the other by a transaction inter vivos that subsection shall apply on the disposal of the shares by the transferee to a third person and any assessment for withdrawing relief in respect of the shares shall be made on the transferee.

(6)If any relief given for the year 1989-90 or any earlier year of assessment in respect of shares for which a married man or married woman has subscribed and which were issued while they were living together falls to be withdrawn in the year 1990-91 or any subsequent year of assessment by virtue of a disposal of those shares by the person who subscribed for them, any assessment for withdrawing that relief shall be made on the person making the disposal and shall be made by reference to the reduction of tax flowing from the amount of the relief regardless of any allocation of that relief under section 280 or of any allocation of the reduction under section 284 for the year of assessment for which the relief was given.

(2)Sub-paragraph (3) below applies where—

(a)an amount is subscribed for shares in the year 1990-91 by one of a married couple who are living together,

(b)the couple were married and living together throughout the year 1989-90, and

(c)the subscriber claims that relief in respect of the amount be given partly by way of deduction from total income for the year 1989-90 in accordance with section 289(6).

(3)Where this sub-paragraph applies—

(a)the deduction shall be made from the husband’s total income (references in Chapter II of Part VII to the relief to which an individual is entitled in respect of any shares being construed accordingly), and

(b)the limits in sections 289(7) and 290 shall apply jointly to the husband and wife for the year 1989-90 as respects the amount subscribed.

Qualifying maintenance paymentsU.K.

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Textual Amendments

Home loansU.K.

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Textual Amendments

F11Sch. 3 para. 14 repealed (27.7.1999 with effect as mentioned in Sch. 20 Pt. III(7) note 4 of the amending Act) by 1999 c. 16, s. 139, Sch. 20 Pt. III(7)

Loans for shares in employee-controlled companyU.K.

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Textual Amendments

Close company loansU.K.

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Trade unions and employers’ associationsU.K.

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Retirement benefit schemesU.K.

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Textual Amendments

Partnership retirement annuitiesU.K.

19U.K.For the year 1990-91 and subsequent years of assessment section 628(1) (partnership retirement annuities) shall have effect with the substitution of the words “a widow, widower or dependant of the former partner” for the words “ his widow or a dependant of his ”.

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Textual Amendments

F15Sch. 3 para. 20 repealed (1.5.1995 wih effect for the year 1995-96 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1995 c. 4, s. 162, Sch. 29 Pt. VIII(8), note

Earned incomeU.K.

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Textual Amendments

F16Sch. 3 para. 21 repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 381(1) of the amending Act) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), s. 381(1), Sch. 10 Pt. 13 (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22)

Total incomeU.K.

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Textual Amendments