SCHEDULE 11A Removal Expenses and Benefits
F1Part IIQUALIFYING EXPENSES AND QUALIFYING BENEFITS
F2Qualifying removal expenses
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(1)
Expenses are not qualifying removal expenses unless they are eligible removal expenses and the conditions set out in this paragraph and paragraph 5 below are fulfilled.
(2)
The expenses must be reasonably incurred by the employee in connection with a change of his residence.
(3)
The expenses must be incurred on or before the relevant day.
F4Qualifying removal benefits
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(1)
A benefit is not a qualifying removal benefit unless it is an eligible removal benefit and the conditions set out in this paragraph and paragraph 5 below are fulfilled.
(2)
The benefit must be reasonably provided in connection with a change of the employee’s residence.
(3)
The benefit must be provided on or before the relevant day.
F6Connection with employment
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(1)
The change of residence mentioned in paragraphs 3(2) and 4(2) above must result from—
(a)
the employee becoming employed by an employer,
(b)
an alteration of the duties of the employee’s employment (where his employer remains the same), or
(c)
an alteration of the place where the employee is normally to perform the duties of his employment (where both his employer and the duties of his employment remain the same).
(2)
The change must be made wholly or mainly to allow the employee to have his residence within a reasonable daily travelling distance of—
(a)
the place where he performs, or is to perform, the duties of his employment (where sub-paragraph (1)(a) above applies);
(b)
the place where he performs, or is to perform, the new duties of his employment (where sub-paragraph (1)(b) above applies);
(c)
the new place where he performs, or is to perform, the duties of his employment (where sub-paragraph (1)(c) above applies);
and any reference in this sub-paragraph to the place where the employee performs, or is to perform, duties of his employment is to the place where he normally performs, or is normally to perform, those duties.
(3)
The employee’s former residence must not be within a reasonable daily travelling distance of the place mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above.
F8The relevant day
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(1)
Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, the relevant day, in relation to a particular change of residence, is the day on which the relevant year ends; and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph the relevant year is the year of assessment next following the year of assessment in which—
(a)
the employee begins to perform the duties of his employment (where paragraph 5(1)(a) above applies);
(b)
the employee begins to perform the new duties of his employment (where paragraph 5(1)(b) above applies);
(c)
the employee begins to perform the duties of his employment at the new place (where paragraph 5(1)(c) above applies).
(2)
If it appears reasonable to the Board to do so, having regard to all the circumstances of a particular change of residence, they may direct that in relation to that change the relevant day is a day which—
(a)
falls after the day mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above, and
(b)
is a day on which a year of assessment ends.