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

Chapter 12Payments treated as earnings

224Payments to non-approved personal pension arrangements

1

Contributions paid by an employer under non-approved personal pension arrangements made by the employee are to be treated as earnings from the employment for the tax year in which they are paid.

2

Subsection (1) does not apply if or to the extent that the contributions are chargeable to income tax as the employee’s income apart from this section.

3

For the purposes of this section—

a

personal pension arrangements” has the meaning given by section 630(1) of ICTA, and

b

arrangements are “non-approved” if they are not “approved” within the meaning of that section.