Part 3Employment income: earnings and benefits etc. treated as earnings

Chapter 7Taxable benefits: loans

General supplementary provisions

190Exclusion of charge after death of employee

1

On the employee’s death a taxable cheap loan is to be treated—

a

for the purposes of this Chapter as ceasing to be outstanding, and

b

for the purposes of section 182 (normal method of calculating interest at the official rate) as being discharged on the date of death.

2

Section 188 (loan released or written off: amount treated as earnings) does not apply in relation to a release or writing off which takes effect on or after the death of the employee.