Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

90 Additional payments to redundant employees. U.K.

[F1 (1) Where a payment is made by way of addition to a redundancy payment or to the corresponding amount of any other employer’s payment and the additional payment would be—

(a) allowable as a deduction in computing for the purposes of Schedule D the profits or losses of a trade, profession or vocation,

(b) deductible under section 75 as expenses of management of a business, or

(c) regarded as expenses payable for the purposes of section 76,

but for the permanent discontinuance of the trade, profession, vocation or business, the additional payment shall, subject to subsection (2) below, be so allowable, deductible or regarded notwithstanding that discontinuance.

If the additional payment—

(i)

is made after discontinuance, or

(ii)

is for the purposes of section 75 or 76 referable to an accounting period beginning after the discontinuance,

it shall be treated as made, or (as the case may be) as referable to the accounting period ending, on the last day on which the trade, profession, vocation or business was carried on.]

[F2 (1A) To the extent that the additional payment would, apart from this subsection, be regarded as expenses payable for the purposes of Step 5 in subsection (7) of section 76, it shall not be so regarded for the purposes of that subsection (or of subsection (1) above so far as relating to that section).]

(2) Subsection (1) above applies to an additional payment only so far as it does not exceed three times the amount of the redundancy payment or of the corresponding amount of the other employer’s payment.

(3) In this section references to the permanent discontinuance of a trade, profession, vocation or business include references to any occasion on which it is treated as permanently discontinued by virtue of section 113(1) or 337(1).

(4) In this section references to a redundancy payment or to the corresponding amount of an employer’s payment shall be construed as in sections 579 and 580.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 90(1) substituted (28.9.2004 with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Finance Act 2004, Sections 38 to 40 and 45 and Schedule 6 (Consequential Amendment of Enactments) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2310), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 10(2)

F2 S. 90(1A) inserted (28.9.2004 with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Finance Act 2004, Sections 38 to 40 and 45 and Schedule 6 (Consequential Amendment of Enactments) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2310), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 10(3)