Part 2Income tax, corporation tax and capital gains tax
Employment income
55Exemption of benefit consisting of health-screening or medical check-up
(1)
Part 4 of ITEPA 2003 (employment income: exemptions) is amended as follows.
(2)
“or
(g)
section 320B (health screening and medical check-ups).”
(3)
“and
(i)
section 320B (health screening and medical check-ups).”
(4)
“Health-screening and medical check-ups
320BHealth-screening and medical check-ups
(1)
No liability to income tax arises in respect of the provision for an employee, on behalf of an employer, of a health-screening assessment or a medical check-up.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply—
(a)
to more than one health-screening assessment provided in a tax year by any one employer or by any of a number of persons who are employers of the employee at the same time, or
(b)
to more than one medical check-up so provided.
(3)
In this section—
“health-screening assessment” means an assessment to identify employees who might be at particular risk of ill-health, and
“medical check-up” means a physical examination of the employee by a health professional for (and only for) determining the employee's state of health.”
(5)
The amendments made by this section have effect for the tax year 2009-10 and subsequent tax years.