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(1)[F1The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs] must make regulations (“PAYE regulations”) with respect to the assessment, charge, collection and recovery of income tax in respect of all PAYE income.
(2)PAYE regulations may, in particular, include any such provision as is set out in the following list.
List of Provisions
1. Provision—
(a)for requiring persons making payments of, or on account of, PAYE income to make, at the [F2relevant time], deductions or repayments of income tax calculated by reference to tax tables prepared by [F1the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs], and
(b)for making persons who are required to make any such deductions or repayments accountable to or, as the case may be, entitled to repayment from the Board.
[F3“The relevant time” is—
(a)if the payment is a notional payment for the purposes of section 710 and the person is treated by virtue of any Act as making it at a time before the date on which the Act is passed, that date, and
(b)in any other case, the time when the payment is made.]
[F41A. Provision—
(a)for deductions to be made, if and to the extent that the payee does not object, with a view to securing that income tax payable in respect of any income of a payee for a tax year which is not PAYE income is deducted from PAYE income of the payee paid during that year; and
(b)as to the circumstances and manner in which a payee may object to the making of deductions.
2. Provision—
(a)for repayments or deductions to be made, if and to the extent that the payee does not object, in respect of any amounts overpaid or remaining unpaid (or treated as overpaid or remaining unpaid) on account of—
(i)income tax in respect of income for a previous tax year, or
(ii)capital gains tax in respect of chargeable gains for such a year; and
(b)as to the circumstances in which repayments or deductions may be made, and the circumstances and manner in which a payee may object to the making of repayments or deductions.]
3. Provision for the production to, and inspection by, persons authorised by the Board of wages sheets and other documents and records for the purposes of satisfying themselves that income tax has been and is being deducted, repaid and accounted for in accordance with the regulations.
4. Provision for requiring an employer or former employer to provide any information, within a prescribed time, about payments or other benefits provided or to be provided, including those provided or to be provided in connection with—
(a)the termination of a person’s employment, or
(b)a change in the duties of or general earnings from a person’s employment.
[F54A. Provision authorising the recovery from the payee rather than the payer of any amount that [F6an officer of Revenue and Customs] considers should have been deducted by the payer.]
5. Provision for the way in which any matters provided for by the regulations are to be proved.
6. Provision—
(a)for requiring the payment of interest on sums due to the Board which are not paid by the due date,
(b)for determining the date (being not less than 14 days after the end of the tax year in respect of which the sums are due) from which such interest is to be calculated, and
(c)for enabling the repayment or remission of such interest.
7. Provision for requiring the payment of interest on sums due from the Board and for determining the date from which such interest is to be calculated.
[F77A. Provision for excluding payments of such description as may be specified from the operation of the regulations in such circumstances as may be specified. Provision for excluding payments of such description as may be specified from the operation of the regulations in such circumstances as may be specified.
8. Provision for the making of decisions by [F8Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs] as to any matter required to be decided for the purposes of the regulations and for appeals against such decisions.]
9. Provision for appeals with respect to matters arising under the regulations which would otherwise not be the subject of an appeal.
10. Different provision for different cases or classes of case.
11. Any incidental, consequential, supplementary and transitional provision which appears to the Board to be expedient.
(3)The deductions of income tax required to be made by PAYE regulations under item 1 in the above list may be required to be made at the basic rate or other rates in such cases or classes of case as may be provided by the regulations.
(4)Interest required to be paid by PAYE regulations under item 6 or 7 in the above list must be paid without any deduction of income tax and may not be taken into account in computing any income, profits or losses for any tax purposes.
(5)PAYE regulations must not affect any right of appeal to the General or Special Commissioners which a person would have apart from the regulations.
(6)It does not matter for the purposes of PAYE regulations that income is wholly or partly income for a tax year other than that in which the payment is made.
(7)PAYE regulations have effect despite anything in the Income Tax Acts.
(7A)[F9Nothing in PAYE regulations may be read—
(a)as preventing the making of arrangements for the collection of tax in such manner as may be agreed by, or on behalf of, the payer and [F6an officer of Revenue and Customs], or
(b)as requiring the payer to comply with the regulations in circumstances in which [F6an officer of Revenue and Customs] is satisfied that it is unnecessary or not appropriate for the payer to do so.
(7B)References in this section and section 685 to income tax in respect of PAYE income are references to income tax in respect of that income if reasonable assumptions are (when necessary) made about other income.
(7C)In this section and section 685—
“payer” means any person paying PAYE income and “payee” means any person in receipt of such income;
“specified” means specified in PAYE regulations.]
(8)In this Act and any other enactment (whenever passed) “PAYE regulations” means regulations under this section.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Act substituted (18.4.2005) by Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11), s. 53(1), Sch. 4 para. 102(2); S.I. 2005/1126, art. 2(2)(h)
F2Words in s. 684(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 94(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), s. 94(3)(a); S.I. 2007/1081, art. 2
F3Words in s. 684(2) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 94(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), s. 94(3)(b); S.I. 2007/1081, art. 2
F4S. 684(2) Items 1A and 2 substituted for s. 684(2) Item 2 (10.7.2003) by Finance Act 2003 (c. 14), s. 145(1)(a)
F5S. 684(2) Item 4A inserted (10.7.2003) by Finance Act 2003 (c. 14), s. 145(1)(b)
F6Words in Act substituted (18.4.2005) by Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11), s. 53(1), Sch. 4 para. 102(1); S.I. 2005/1126, art. 2(2)(h)
F7S. 684(2) Items 7A and 8 substituted for s. 684(2) Item 8 (10.7.2003) by Finance Act 2003 (c. 14), s. 145(1)(c)
F8Words in s. 684 substituted (18.4.2005) by Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11), s. 53(1), Sch. 4 para. 117; S.I. 2005/1126, art. 2(2)(h)
F9S. 684(7A)-(7C) inserted (10.7.2003) by Finance Act 2003 (c. 14), s. 145(2)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 684(2) modified (6.4.2007) by The Finance Act 2006 (Section 94(5)) (PAYE: Retrospective Notional Payments — Appointment of Substituted Date) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1081), art. 2; as provided for by 2006 c. 25, s. 94(5)
(1)[F1 The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs] must construct tax tables with a view to securing that so far as possible—
(a)the total income tax payable in respect of PAYE income for any tax year is deducted from PAYE income paid during that year, and
(b)the income tax deductible or repayable on the occasion of any payment of, or on account of, PAYE income is such that the following proportions are the same—
(i)the proportion which the total net income tax deducted since the beginning of the tax year bears to the total income tax payable for the year, and
(ii)the proportion which the part of the tax year which ends with the date of the payment bears to the whole year.
(2)References in subsection (1) to the total income tax payable for the year are to be read as references to the total income tax estimated to be payable for the year in respect of the income in question—
(a)subject to a provisional deduction for allowances and reliefs, and
[F10(b)subject to an adjustment in respect of amounts required to be deducted or repaid by PAYE regulations made under item 1A or 2 in the list in section 684(2).]
(3)For the purpose of estimating the total income tax payable as mentioned in subsection (1)(a), it may be assumed, in relation to any payment of, or on account of, PAYE income, that the following proportions will be the same—
(a)the proportion which the income paid in the part of the tax year which ends with the making of the payment bears to the income for the whole year, and
(b)the proportion which that part of the tax year bears to the whole year.
[F11(4)PAYE regulations may make provision, where it appears to [F6an officer of Revenue and Customs] that it is impracticable for a payer to deduct tax by reference to tax tables—
(a)for deductions to be made by the payer in accordance with other arrangements agreed as mentioned in section 684(7A)(a), or
(b)for the payee to be required to keep records and make payments and returns as if he were the payer.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Act substituted (18.4.2005) by Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11), s. 53(1), Sch. 4 para. 102(2); S.I. 2005/1126, art. 2(2)(h)
F6Words in Act substituted (18.4.2005) by Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11), s. 53(1), Sch. 4 para. 102(1); S.I. 2005/1126, art. 2(2)(h)
F10S. 685(2)(b) substituted (10.7.2003) by Finance Act 2003 (c. 14), s. 145(3)
F11S. 685(4) inserted (10.7.2003) by Finance Act 2003 (c. 14), s. 145(4)
(1)For the purposes of PAYE regulations, a payment of, or on account of, PAYE income of a person is treated as made at the earliest of the following times—
Rule 1
The time when the payment is made.
Rule 2
The time when the person becomes entitled to the payment.
Rule 3
If the person is a director of a company and the income is income from employment with the company (whether or not as director), whichever is the earliest of—
(a)the time when sums on account of the income are credited in the company’s accounts or records (whether or not there is any restriction on the right to draw the sums);
(b)if the amount of the income for a period is determined before the period ends, the time when the period ends;
(c)if the amount of the income for a period is not determined until after the period has ended, the time when the amount is determined.
[F12But this is subject to subsection (5) (PAYE pension income: social security pension lump sums).]
(2)Rule 3 applies if the person is a director of the company at any time in the tax year in which the time mentioned falls.
(3)In this section “director” means—
(a)in relation to a company whose affairs are managed by a board of directors or similar body, a member of that board or body,
(b)in relation to a company whose affairs are managed by a single director or other person, that director or person, and
(c)in relation to a company whose affairs are managed by the members themselves, a member of the company,
and includes any person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the company’s directors (as defined above) are accustomed to act.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (3) a person is not regarded as a person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the company’s directors are accustomed to act merely because the directors act on advice given by that person in a professional capacity.
[F13(5)For the purposes of PAYE regulations, a payment of, or on account of, an amount which is PAYE pension income of a person by virtue of section 683(3A) (social security pension lump sums) is to be treated as made at the time when the payment is made.]
Textual Amendments
F12Words in s. 686(1) inserted (20.7.2005) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2005 (c. 22), s. 10(5)
F13S. 686(5) inserted (20.7.2005) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2005 (c. 22), s. 10(6)
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