Finance Act 1998

Income tax charge, rates and reliefsU.K.

F125 Charge and rates for 1998-99.U.K.

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Textual Amendments

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Textual Amendments

F2S. 26 repealed (27.7.1999 with effect for the year 2000-01 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1999 c. 16, s. 139, Sch. 20 Pt. III(4), Note

27 Married couple’s allowance etc. in and after 1999-00.U.K.

(1)The Taxes Act 1988 shall have effect for the year 1999-00 and subsequent years of assessment with the following amendments—

(a)in section 256(2)(a) of that Act (rate of reliefs given by way of income tax reduction under Chapter I of Part VII), for “15 per cent." there shall be substituted “ 10 per cent. ”; and

(b)in section 347B(5A)(a) of that Act (rate of relief for qualifying maintenance payments), for “the appropriate percentage" there shall be substituted “ 10 per cent. ”.

(2)For the purposes only of applying section 257C of the Taxes Act 1988 (indexation) for the year 1999-00, the amounts specified for the year 1998-99 in subsections (2) and (3) of section 257A of that Act (married couple’s allowance for persons of 65 or more) shall be taken to have been £4,965 and £5,025, respectively.