Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003

[F161DWorker treated as receiving earnings from employmentU.K.
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(1)This section applies if—

(a)the services of an individual (“the worker”) are provided (directly or indirectly) by a managed service company (“the MSC”),

(b)the worker, or an associate of the worker, receives (from any person) a payment or benefit which can reasonably be taken to be in respect of the services, and

(c)the payment or benefit is not earnings (within Chapter 1 of Part 3) received by the worker directly from the MSC.

(2)The MSC is treated as making to the worker, and the worker is treated as receiving, a payment which is to be treated as earnings from an employment (“the deemed employment payment”).

(3)The deemed employment payment is treated as made at the time the payment or benefit mentioned in subsection (1)(b) is received.

(4)In this Chapter—

  • the worker” has the meaning given by subsection (1),

  • the relevant services” means the services mentioned in that subsection, and

  • the client” means the person to whom the relevant services are provided.

[F2(4A)This section does not apply where the provision of the relevant services gives rise (directly or indirectly) to an engagement to which Chapter 10 applies, and for this purpose it does not matter whether the client is also “the client” for the purposes of section 61M(1).]

(5)Section 61F supplements this section.]

Textual Amendments

F1Pt. 2 Ch. 9 inserted (retrospective to 6.4.2007) by Finance Act 2007 (c. 11), s. 25(2), Sch. 3 para. 4

F2S. 61D(4A) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 15 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2017 (c. 10), Sch. 1 para. 7