Finance Act 1993

Miscellaneous provisions about reliefs U.K.

108 Counselling services for employees. U.K.

In Chapter VI of Part XIII of the Taxes Act 1988, after section 589 there shall be inserted the following sections—

“589A Counselling services for employees.

(1) This section applies where—

(a) qualifying counselling services are provided to a person (the employee) in connection with the termination of the holding by him of any office or employment, and

(b) the termination takes place on or after 16th March 1993.

(2) This section also applies where—

(a) subsection (1)(a) above applies, and

(b) the termination takes place before 16th March 1993 but relevant expenditure is incurred on or after that date.

(3) Relevant expenditure is expenditure incurred in—

(a) providing the qualifying counselling services to the employee,

(b) paying or reimbursing fees for the provision to the employee of the qualifying counselling services, or

(c) paying or reimbursing any allowable travelling expenses incurred in connection with the provision of the qualifying counselling services to the employee.

(4) No charge to tax under Schedule E shall arise in respect of—

(a) the provision of the qualifying counselling services to the employee,

(b) the payment or reimbursement of fees for the provision to the employee of the qualifying counselling services, or

(c) the payment or reimbursement of any allowable travelling expenses incurred in connection with the provision of the qualifying counselling services to the employee.

(5) Where this section applies by virtue of subsection (2) above, subsection (4) above shall apply only to the extent that the expenditure incurred in providing the services or paying or reimbursing the fees or expenses is incurred on or after 16th March 1993.

(6) Subsection (4) above shall apply whether or not the person who provides the services or pays or reimburses the fees or expenses is the person under whom the employee holds or held the office or employment mentioned in subsection (1) above.

(7) Subsections (8) to (10) below apply where any relevant expenditure is incurred by the person under whom the employee holds or held the office or employment mentioned in subsection (1) above (the employer).

(8) If and so far as the expenditure would not, apart from this subsection, be so deductible, it shall be deductible in computing for the purposes of Schedule D the profits or gains of the trade, profession or vocation of the employer for the purposes of which the employee is or was employed.

(9) If the employer carries on a business and the expenses of management of the business are eligible for relief under section 75, subsection (8) above shall have effect as if for the words from “in computing” onwards there were substituted “as expenses of management for the purposes of section 75”.

(10) Where this section applies by virtue of subsection (2) above, subsections (8) and (9) above shall apply only to the extent that the expenditure is incurred on or after 16th March 1993.

589B Qualifying counselling services etc.

(1) Subsections (2) to (4) below apply for the purposes of section 589A.

(2) Subject to subsection (3) below, services are qualifying counselling services if—

(a) the purpose, or main purpose, of their provision is to enable the employee to adjust to the termination of his holding of the office or employment mentioned in section 589A(1) or is to enable him to find other gainful employment (including self-employment) or is to enable him to do both,

(b) the services consist wholly of any or all of the following, namely, giving advice and guidance, imparting or improving skills, and providing or making available the use of office equipment or similar facilities,

(c) the employee has been employed by the employer full-time throughout the period of two years ending at the time when the services begin to be provided to him or, if it is earlier, at the time he ceases to be employed by the employer,

(d) the opportunity to receive the services, on similar terms as to payment or reimbursement of any expenses incurred in connection with their provision, is available either generally to holders or past holders of offices or employment under the employer or to a particular class or classes of such holders or past holders, and

(e) the services are provided in the United Kingdom.

(3) Where paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (2) above are satisfied in relation to particular services but the services are provided partly in and partly outside the United Kingdom, the extent to which the services are qualifying counselling services shall be determined on a just and reasonable basis.

(4) In relation to services, allowable travelling expenses are those which would be deductible under section 198—

(a) on the assumption that receipt of the services is one of the duties of the employee’s office or employment, and

(b) if the employee has in fact ceased to be employed by the employer, on the assumption that he continues to be employed by him.

(5) Any reference in this section or section 589A to an employee being employed by an employer is a reference to the employee holding office or employment under the employer.”

109 Pre-trading expenditure. U.K.

(1) In subsection (1) of section 401 of the Taxes Act 1988 (which gives relief for expenditure incurred within the five years before the beginning of any trade, profession or vocation), for “five” there shall be substituted “ seven ”.

(2) After subsection (1) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(1A) Where—

(a) a company pays any charge on income at a time before it begins to carry on any trade, and

(b) the payment is made wholly and exclusively for the purposes of that trade,

that payment, to the extent that it is not deducted otherwise than by virtue of this section from any profits, shall be treated for the purposes of corporation tax as paid on the day on which the trade is first carried on by the company.”

(3) In section 338(5)(b) of that Act (payments not to be treated as charges on income), after “trade” there shall be inserted “ which is or is to be ”.

(4) Subsections (1) and (2) above shall have effect where the time when the person begins to carry on the trade, profession or vocation falls after 31st March 1993, and subsection (3) above shall have effect in relation to payments made after that date.

110 Waste disposal expenditure. U.K.

(1) In section 91A(6) of the Taxes Act 1988 (relevant licence for the purposes of restoration payments), after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted “or

(c) any authorisation under the M1 Radioactive Substances Act 1960 or the M2 Radioactive Substances Act 1993 for the disposal of radioactive waste or any nuclear site licence under the M3 Nuclear Installations Act 1965.”

(2) In section 91B of that Act (preparation expenditure for waste disposal), after subsection (10) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(10A) For the purposes of this section any expenditure incurred for the purposes of a trade by a person about to carry it on shall be treated as if it had been incurred by that person on the first day on which he does carry it on and in the course of doing so.”

(3) This section shall have effect in relation to any case where the trade in question is begun after 31st March 1993.

Marginal Citations

M1 1960 c. 34.

M2 1993 c. 12.

M3 1965 c. 57.

F1 111 Business expansion scheme: loan linked investments. U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F1 S. 111 repealed (6.4.2007) by Income Tax Act 2007 (c. 3), s. 1034(1), Sch. 3 Pt. 2 (with Sch. 2)

F2 112 Employers’ pension contributions. U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F2 S. 112 repealed (6.4.2006) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 42 Pt. 3 (with Sch. 36)