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[F1(1)If the holder of an office or employment is obliged to incur and defray out of the emoluments of the office or employment—
(a)qualifying travelling expenses, or
(b)any amount (other than qualifying travelling expenses) expended wholly, exclusively and necessarily in the performance of the duties of the office or employment,
there may be deducted from the emoluments to be assessed the amount so incurred and defrayed.
(1A)“Qualifying travelling expenses” means—
(a)amounts necessarily expended on travelling in the performance of the duties of the office or employment, or
(b)other expenses of travelling which—
(i)are attributable to the necessary attendance at any place of the holder of the office or employment in the performance of the duties of the office or employment, and
(ii)are not expenses of ordinary commuting or private travel.
What is ordinary commuting or private travel for this purpose is defined in Schedule 12A.
(1B)Expenses of travel by the holder of an office or employment between two places at which he performs duties of different offices or employments under or with companies in the same group are treated as necessarily expended in the performance of the duties which he is to perform at his destination.
For this purpose companies are taken to be members of the same group if, and only if, one is a 51 per cent. subsidiary of the other or both are 51 per cent. subsidiaries of a third company.]
(2)Subject to subsection (3) below, where the emoluments for any duties do not fall within Case I or II of Schedule E, then in relation to those or any other emoluments of the office or employment, subsection (1) above F2. . . shall apply as if the performance of those duties did not belong to that office or employment.
(3)There may be deducted from any emoluments chargeable under Case III of Schedule E the amount of—
(a)any expenses defrayed out of those emoluments, and
(b)any other expenses defrayed in the United Kingdom in the chargeable period or in an earlier chargeable period in which the holder of the office or employment has been resident in the United Kingdom,
being in either case expenses for which a deduction might have been made under subsection (1) above from emoluments of the office or employment if they had been chargeable under Case I of Schedule E for the chargeable period in which the expenses were incurred; but a deduction shall not be made twice, whether under this subsection or otherwise, in respect of the same expenses from emoluments of the office or employment.
[F3(4)No deduction shall be made under this section in respect of expenditure incurred by—
(a)a member of the House of Commons, or
(b)a member of the Scottish Parliament, or
(c)a member of the National Assembly for Wales, or
(d)a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly,
in, or in connection with, the provision or use of residential or overnight accommodation to enable him to perform his duties as such a member in or about the place where the body of which he is a member sits or the constituency or region for which he has been returned.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 198(1)(1A)(1B) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 61(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), s. 61(1)
F2Words in s. 198(2) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 579 of the repealing Act) by Capital Allowances Act 2001 (c. 2), s. 580, Sch. 2 para. 25, Sch. 4
F3S. 198(4) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 52(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1999 (c. 16), s. 52(1), Sch. 5 para. 2(2)
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