Paragraph 144: Purchased life annuity payments: carry forward of excess capital elements
3682.If the amount of an annuity payment is less than the capital element calculated under the constant sum method in section 656(2) of ICTA, ESC A46 allows the excess of the capital element over the gross annuity to be carried forward to increase the capital element to be set against the next annuity payment. Section 719(5) of this Act gives statutory effect to that concession. This paragraph enables such excesses that were not absorbed by annuity payments made before the tax year 2004-05 to be carried forward by increasing the exempt amount of the first payment made after 5 April 2005. See Change 119.
