Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003

692 Organised arrangements for sharing tips U.K.

(1) PAYE regulations may make provision with respect to organised arrangements for tips to be shared among employees by a person (“P”) who is not the principal employer.

(2) PAYE regulations may include provisions which, for the purposes of PAYE regulations—

(a) treat every payment made by P to an employee by way of the employee’s share of any tips (including the retention by P of P’s own share if P is an employee) as a payment of PAYE income by P, and

(b) treat P as the employer in relation to every such payment.

(3) PAYE regulations may also include provisions which—

(a) apply if P has failed to comply with any of the requirements of PAYE regulations, and

(b) treat the principal employer, for the purposes of PAYE regulations, as making payments to the employees of any tips paid over to P by the principal employer.

(4) In this section—

• “the principal employer” means the person under whose general control and management the employees work;

• “tips” means gratuities and service charges.