Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003

[F1 554Z5 Overlap with earlier relevant step U.K.

(1) This section applies if there is overlap between—

(a) the sum of money or asset (“sum or asset P”) which is the subject of the relevant step, and

(b) the sum of money or asset (“sum or asset Q”) which was the subject of an earlier relevant step (“the earlier relevant step”) by reason of which this Chapter applied in respect of A's employment with B.

(2) The value of the relevant step (after any reductions under section 554Z4) is reduced (but not below nil)—

(a) if the overlap covers the whole of sum or asset Q, by the value of the earlier relevant step, or

(b) if the overlap covers only part of sum or asset Q, by the part of the value of the earlier relevant step which corresponds to the part of sum or asset Q covered by the overlap as determined on a just and reasonable basis.

(3) In subsection (2) references to the value of the earlier relevant step are to that value—

(a) after any reductions made to it under section 554Z4 or this section or section 554Z7, but

(b) before any reductions made to it under section 554Z6 or 554Z8.

(4) For the purposes of this section there is overlap between sum or asset P and sum or asset Q so far as—

(a) they are the same sum of money or asset, or

(b) sum or asset P, essentially, replaces sum or asset Q.

(5) Further, if any reductions were made under this section to the value of the earlier relevant step, sum or asset P is treated as overlapping with any other sum of money or asset so far as the other sum of money or asset was treated as overlapping with sum or asset Q for the purposes of this section.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 7A inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 2 paras. 52-59 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), Sch. 2 para. 1