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Income treated as capitalN.I.

43.—(1) Any bounty derived from employment to which paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 applies and paid at intervals of at least one year shall be treated as capital.

(2) Any amount by way of a refund of income tax deducted from profits or emoluments chargeable to—

(a)income tax under Schedule D or E;

(b)income tax under the legislation of the Republic of Ireland which is analogous to income tax under Schedule D or E,

shall be treated as capital.

(3) Any holiday pay which is not earnings under regulation 32(1)(d) shall be treated as capital.

(4) Except any income derived from capital disregarded under paragraph 1, 2, 4, 8, 14, 26 to 29 or 45 of Schedule 7, any income derived from capital shall be treated as capital but only from the date it is normally due to be credited to the claimant’s account.

(5) In the case of employment as an employed earner, any advance of earnings or any loan made by the claimant’s employer shall be treated as capital.

(6) Any charitable or voluntary payment which is not made or due to be made at regular intervals, other than a payment which is made under the Macfarlane Trust, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) Trust , the Macfarlane (Special Payments) (No. 2) Trust, the Fund, the Eileen Trust or the Independent Living Funds, shall be treated as capital.

(7) There shall be treated as capital the gross receipts of any commercial activity carried on by a person in respect of which assistance is received under the self-employment route, but only in so far as those receipts were payable into a special account (as defined for the purposes of Chapter IVA of Part VIII of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations(1)) during the period in which that person was receiving such assistance.

(8) Any arrears of working tax credit or child tax credit shall be treated as capital.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 43 in operation at 20.11.2006, see reg. 1(1)

(1)

Chapter IVA was inserted by regulation 4(4) of S.R. 1998 No. 182

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