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Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003, Section 206 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 27 February 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation

206Cost of the benefit: transfer of used or depreciated assetU.K.
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(1)The cost of an employment-related benefit is determined in accordance with this section if—

(a)the benefit consists in the transfer of an asset, and

(b)the asset has been used, or has depreciated, since the person transferring the asset (“the transferor”) acquired or produced it.

(2)The cost of the benefit is the market value of the asset at the time of the transfer.

(3)But the cost of the benefit (“the current benefit”) is the higher of the market value of the asset at the time of the transfer and the amount calculated in accordance with subsection (5) if—

(a)the asset is not [F1an excluded asset (see subsection (6))] ,

(b)the asset has previously been applied in the provision of a relevant employment-related benefit (whether or not the person provided with that benefit is also the transferee), and

(c)the transferor first applied the asset in the provision of an employment-related benefit after 5th April 1980.

(4)In this section “relevant employment-related benefit” means an employment-related benefit the cost of which was to be determined in accordance with section 205.

(5)The amount referred to in subsection (3) is calculated in accordance with the following steps—

Step 1

Determine the tax years in which the asset was applied in the provision of a relevant employment-related benefit (including, if appropriate, the current tax year).

Step 2

Determine the cost of the benefit for each of those tax years in accordance with section 205.

Step 3

Calculate the total of the amounts determined under step 2.

Step 4

Calculate the market value of the asset at the time when the transferor first applied it in the provision of an employment-related benefit.

Step 5

Deduct the total calculated under step 3 from the market value calculated under step 4.

The result is the amount referred to in subsection (3).

[F2(6)An excluded asset is—

(a)a car (within the meaning of Chapter 6),

(b)computer equipment that has previously been applied as mentioned in subsection (3)(b) in circumstances in which the conditions set out in section 320 were met, or

(c)a cycle or cyclist's safety equipment that has previously been so applied in circumstances in which the conditions set out in section 244 were met.]

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 206(3)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 17(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2005 (c. 7), s. 17(2)

F2S. 206(6) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 17(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2005 (c. 7), s. 17(3)

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