The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003 No. 2682

PART 3 U.K. DEDUCTION AND REPAYMENT OF TAX

CHAPTER 1 U.K. DEDUCTION AND REPAYMENT

[F1 Higher rate, additional rate and nil tax codes] U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 32 cross-heading substituted (6.4.2011) by The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/729), regs. 1, 6

Higher rate code: deductions U.K.

32.  If an employee’s code is the higher rate code the employer must deduct tax at the higher rate, and regulations 22 and 26 (cumulative and non-cumulative basis) do not apply.

[F2 Additional rate code: deductions U.K.

32A.   If the employee’s code is the additional rate code the employer must deduct tax at the additional rate and regulations 22 and 26 (cumulative and non-cumulative basis) do not apply.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Reg. 32A and cross-heading inserted (6.4.2011) by The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/729), regs. 1, 7

[F3 Scottish upper rate codes U.K.

32B.— (1) If the employee’s code is an appropriate Scottish upper rate code the employer must deduct tax at the Scottish upper rate specified in that code and regulations 22 and 26 (cumulative and non-cumulative basis) do not apply.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation an “appropriate Scottish upper rate code” has the meaning given in regulation 7(4).]

Textual Amendments

F3 Reg. 32B inserted (6.4.2018) by The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/267), regs. 1, 6

Nil tax code: no deductions or repayments U.K.

33.—(1) If an employee’s code is the nil tax code the employer must not deduct or repay any tax, and so regulation 22 (cumulative basis) does not apply.

(2) But—

(a) if the nil tax code is an amended code, and

(b) the Inland Revenue so direct,

regulation 22 applies to the next relevant payment the employer makes in the same tax year, and the employer must make any repayment of tax due.