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

Chapter 2Taxable benefits: the benefits code

The benefits code

63The benefits code

1

In the employment income Parts “the benefits code” means—

  • this Chapter,

  • Chapter 3 (expenses payments),

  • Chapter 4 (vouchers and credit-tokens),

  • Chapter 5 (living accommodation),

  • Chapter 6 (cars, vans and related benefits),

  • Chapter 7 (loans),

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  • Chapter 10 (residual liability to charge), and

  • Chapter 11 (exclusion of lower-paid employments from parts of benefits code).

2

If an employment is an excluded employment, the general effect of section 216(1) (provisions not applicable to lower-paid employments) is that only the following Chapters apply to the employment—

  • this Chapter,

  • Chapter 4 (vouchers and credit-tokens),

  • Chapter 5 (living accommodation), and

  • Chapter 11 (exclusion of lower-paid employments from parts of benefits code).

3

Section 216(5) and (6) explain and restrict the effect of section 216(1).

4

In the benefits code “excluded employment” means an employment to which the exclusion in section 216(1) applies.