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10(1)Section 266A (life assurance premiums paid by employer) is amended as follows.U.K.

(2)In subsection (1), for “a non-approved” substitute “ an employer-financed ”.

(3)For subsections (3) to (6) substitute—

(3)For the purposes of subsection (1)(a) benefits are provided in respect of an employee if they are provided for the employee’s spouse [F1or civil partner], widow or widower [F2or surviving civil partner], children, dependants or personal representatives.

(4)If a sum within subsection (1) is paid with a view to the provision of benefits for or in respect of more than one employee of the employer, part of it is to be treated as paid for or in respect of each of them.

(5)The amount treated as paid for or in respect of each employee is—

where—

A is the sum paid,

B is the amount which would have had to be paid to secure the benefits to be provided for or in respect of the employee in question, and

C is the total amount which would have had to be paid to secure the benefits to be provided for or in respect of all the employees if separate payments had been made in the case of each of them.

(6)This section does not apply if—

(a)in the year of assessment in which the sum is paid the earnings from the employee’s employment are (or, if there are none, would be if there were any) earnings charged on remittance, or

(b)the employee is not domiciled in the United Kingdom in the tax year in which the sum is paid and the conditions in subsection (7) are met.

(7)Those conditions are—

(a)that the employment is with a foreign employer, and

(b)that, on a claim made by the employee, the Board are satisfied that the pension scheme corresponds to a registered pension scheme.

(8)In subsection (6)(a) “earnings charged on remittance” means earnings which are taxable earnings under—

(a)section 22 of ITEPA 2003 (chargeable overseas earnings for year when employee resident and ordinarily resident, but not domiciled, in UK), or

(b)section 26 of that Act (foreign earnings for year when employee resident, but not ordinarily resident, in UK).

(9)In this section—

employer-financed retirement benefits scheme”, and

>“relevant benefits”,

have the same meaning as in Chapter 2 of Part 6 of ITEPA 2003 (see sections 393A and 393B of that Act).

Textual Amendments

F1Words in Sch. 35 para. 10(3) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax and Civil Partnership Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3229), regs. 1(1), 181(a)

F2Words in Sch. 35 para. 10(3) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax and Civil Partnership Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3229), regs. 1(1), 181(b)

Commencement Information

I1Ss. 160-274, 281, Schs. 30-35 in force at 6.4.2006 but any power to make an order or regulations under those provisions may be exercised at any time after Royal Assent, see s. 284

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