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PART VIII INCOME AND CAPITAL

[F1Chapter IVAParticipants in the Self-Employment Route F2...

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Interpretation

102A.  In this Chapter—

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C2Reg. 102A modified (temp. from 28.11.2000 until 27.11.2001) by The Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/3134), regs. 1(1)(b), 18(1)(a)

Treatment of gross receipts of participants in the self-employment route F4...

102B.  The gross receipts of a commercial activity carried on by a person in respect of which assistance is received under the self-employment route, shall be taken into account in accordance with the following provisions of this Chapter.

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Calculation of income of participants in the self-employment route F5...

102C.—(1) The income of a person who has received assistance under the self-employment route shall be calculated by taking into account the whole of the monies in the special account at the end of the last day upon which such assistance was received and deducting from those monies—

(a)an amount in respect of income tax calculated in accordance with regulation 102D (deduction in respect of tax for participants in the self-employment routeF6...; and

(b)any sum to which paragraph (4) refers.

(2) Income calculated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be apportioned equally over a period which starts on the date the income is treated as paid under paragraph (3) and is equal in length to the period beginning with the day upon which assistance was first received under the self-employment route and ending on the last day upon which such assistance was received.

(3) Income calculated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be treated as paid—

(a)in the case where it is due to be paid before the first benefit week in respect of which the participant or his partner [F7or, in the case of a joint-claim couple, the participant and the other member of the couple of which the participant is a member,] first claims a jobseeker’s allowance following the last day upon which assistance was received under the self-employment route, on the day in the week in which it is due to be paid which corresponds to the first day of the benefit week;

(b)in any other case, on the first day of the benefit week in which it is due to be paid.

(4) This paragraph refers, where applicable in each benefit week in respect of which income calculated pursuant to paragraph (1) is taken into account pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (3), to the sums which would have been disregarded under paragraphs 5 to 8, 11 and 12 of Schedule 6 [F8or paragraphs 1, 2, 5 and 6 of Schedule 6A] had the income been earnings.

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F7Words in reg. 102C(3)(a) inserted (19.3.2001) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1978), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 41(a)

Deduction in respect of tax for participants in the self-employment routeF9...

102D.—(1) The amount to be deducted in respect of income tax under regulation 102C(1)(a) (calculation of income of participants in the self-employment routeF10...) in respect of the period determined under regulation 102C(2) shall be calculated as if—

(a)the chargeable income is the only income chargeable to tax;

[F11(b)the personal reliefs applicable to the person receiving assistance under the self-employment route under Chapters 2, 3 and 3A of Part 3 of the Income Tax Act 2007 are allowable against that income; and]

[F11(c)the rate at which the chargeable income less the personal reliefs is assessable to income tax is the basic rate, or in the case of a Scottish taxpayer, the Scottish basic rate, of tax.]

(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1), the [F12[F13basic] rate[F14, or the Scottish basic rate,]] of tax to be applied and the amount of the [F15personal reliefs] deductible shall, where the period determined under regulation 102C(2) is less than a year, be calculated on a pro rata basis.

(3) In this regulation, “chargeable income" means the monies in the special account at the end of the last day upon which assistance was received under the self-employment route.]

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