(1)PAYE regulations may provide that no repayment of income tax may be made under such regulations to a person—
(a)during a period for which the person has claimed jobseeker’s allowance, or
(b)at a time when the person is prevented by the trade disputes provisions from being entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance, or would be so prevented if the person otherwise met the conditions for entitlement.
(2)Different provision may be made with respect to—
(a)persons within subsection (1)(a), and
(b)persons within subsection (1)(b).
(3)“The trade disputes provisions” means—
(a)section 14 of JSA 1995, or
(b)Article 16 of JS(NI)O 1995.
(1)This section applies if—
(a)an assessment to income tax is made as respects relevant income (with or without other income), and
(b)the assessment is made after the end of the period of 12 months following the tax year for which it is made.
(2)In so far as it relates to relevant income, the assessment is to be made in accordance with the practice generally prevailing at the end of that period.
(3)“Relevant income” means income which—
(a)has been taken into account in the making of deductions or repayments of tax under PAYE regulations, and
(b)was received not less than 12 months before the beginning of the tax year in which the assessment is made.
(1)If an employer makes a notional payment of PAYE income of an employee, the employer must deduct income tax at the relevant time from any payment or payments the employer actually makes of, or on account of, PAYE income of the employee.
(2)For the purposes of this section—
(a)a notional payment is a payment treated as made by virtue of any of sections 687, 689 and 693 to 700, other than a payment whose amount is given by section 687(3)(a) or 689(3)(a), and
(b)any reference to an employer includes a reference to a person who is treated as making a payment by virtue of section 689(2).
(3)Subsection (4) applies if, because the payments actually made are insufficient for the purpose, the employer is unable to deduct the full amount of the income tax as required by subsection (1).
(4)The employer must account to the Board of Inland Revenue at the relevant time for an amount of income tax equal to the amount of income tax the employer is required, but is unable, to deduct.
(5)PAYE regulations may make provision—
(a)with respect to the time when any notional payment (or description of notional payment) is made;
(b)applying (with or without modifications) any specified provisions of the regulations for the time being in force in relation to deductions from actual payments to amounts accounted for in respect of any notional payments;
(c)with respect to the collection and recovery of amounts accounted for in respect of notional payments.
(6)Any amount—
(a)which an employer deducts as mentioned in subsection (1), or
(b)for which an employer accounts as mentioned in subsection (4),
is to be treated as an amount which, at the time when the notional payment is made, is paid by the employee in respect of the employee’s liability to income tax.
(7)“The relevant time” means—
(a)in subsection (1), any occasion—
(i)on or after the time when the notional payment is made, and
(ii)falling within the same income tax period,
on which the employer actually makes a payment of, or on account of, PAYE income of the employee;
(b)in subsection (4), any time within 14 days of the end of the income tax period in which the notional payment was made.
(8)In subsection (7) “income tax period” has the same meaning as in the Income Tax (Employments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/744), or any subsequent regulations making corresponding provision.
(1)A person who has PAYE income for a tax year in respect of which deductions or repayments are made under PAYE regulations may by notice require the Inland Revenue to give that person a notice under section 8 of TMA 1970 (personal return) for the tax year.
(2)A notice to the Inland Revenue under subsection (1) must be given no later than 5 years after the 31st October next following the tax year.
(1)In this Part—
“employee” means a person who holds or has held employment with another person;
“employer” means—
in relation to an employee, a person with whom the employee holds or has held an employment, and
in relation to any PAYE income of an employee, the person who is the employer of the employee in relation to the employment in respect of which the income is or was provided or, as the case may be, by reference to which it falls to be regarded as PAYE income. The above definitions are subject to sections 688 and 710(2)(b).
(2)Sections 4 and 5 apply for the purposes of this Part as they apply for the purposes of the employment income Parts.