Finance Act 1993

107 Indexation of allowances etc. for 1994-95 onwards

(1) The Taxes Act 1988 shall be amended as mentioned in subsections (2) to (6) below.

(2) In section 1—

(a) in subsection (4) (indexation of income tax bands) for “December” (in each place) there shall be substituted “September”;

(b) subsection (5) (no change required for PAYE before 18th May) shall be omitted.

(3) In section 257C—

(a) in subsection (1) (indexation of personal allowance and married couple’s allowance) for “December” (in each place) there shall be substituted “September”;

(b) subsection (2) (no change required for PAYE before 18th May) shall be omitted.

(4) In section 590C (earnings cap for retirement benefits schemes) in subsection (5) (indexation) for “December” (in each place) there shall be substituted “September”.

(5) In section 590C the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (5)—

“(5A) If the retail prices index for the month of September preceding a year of assessment falling within subsection (4) above is not higher than it was for the previous September, the figure for that year shall be the same as the figure for the previous year of assessment.”; and accordingly, in subsection (4) of that section for “subsection (5)” there shall be substituted

“subsections (5) and (5A)”.

(6) In each of the provisions to which this subsection applies (provisions which refer to section 590C(4) and (5)) for “and (5)” there shall be substituted “to (5A)”; and this subsection applies to sections 590B(11), 592(8E), 594(7), 599(12) and 640A(4).

(7) In Schedule 6 to the [1989 c. 26.] Finance Act 1989 (retirement benefits schemes) in paragraphs 20(6) and 22(5) (which refer to section 590C(4) and (5) of the Taxes Act 1988) for “and (5)” there shall be substituted “to (5A)”.

(8) This section shall have effect for the year 1994-95 and subsequent years of assessment.