SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1Workers' services provided through intermediaries
PART 3Consequential and miscellaneous amendments
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1
Part 13 of CTA 2009 (additional relief for expenditure on research and development) is amended as follows.
2
In section 1129 (qualifying expenditure on externally provided workers: connected persons) after subsection (4) insert—
4A
In subsection (2) the reference to the staff provision payment is to that payment before any deduction is made from the payment under—
a
section 61S of ITEPA 2003,
b
regulation 19 of the Social Security Contributions (Intermediaries) Regulations 2000, or
c
regulation 19 of the Social Security Contributions (Intermediaries) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2000.
3
In section 1131 (qualifying expenditure on externally provided workers: other cases) after subsection (2) insert—
3
In subsection (2) the reference to the staff provision payment is to that payment before any deduction is made from the payment under—
a
section 61S of ITEPA 2003,
b
regulation 19 of the Social Security Contributions (Intermediaries) Regulations 2000, or
c
regulation 19 of the Social Security Contributions (Intermediaries) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2000.
4
After section 1131 insert—
1131ASections 1129 and 1131: secondary Class 1 NICS paid by company
1
This section applies if—
a
a company makes a staff provision payment,
b
the company is treated as making a payment of deemed direct earnings the amount of which is calculated by reference to the amount of the staff provision payment, and
c
the company pays a secondary Class 1 national insurance contribution in respect of the payment of deemed direct earnings.
2
In determining the company's qualifying expenditure on externally provided workers in accordance with section 1129(2) or section 1131(2) the amount of the staff payment provision is to be treated as increased by the amount of the contribution.
3
In determining the company's qualifying expenditure on externally provided workers in accordance with section 1129(2) the aggregate of the relevant expenditure of each staff controller is to be treated as increased by the amount of the contribution.
4
But subsection (2) does not apply to the extent that the expenditure incurred by the company in paying the contribution is met directly or indirectly by a staff controller.
5
“A payment of deemed direct earning” means a payment the company is treated as making by reason of regulation 14 of the Social Security Contributions (Intermediaries) Regulations 2000 or regulation 14 of the Social Security Contributions (Intermediaries) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2000.