SCHEDULE 4U.K. [F1Provisions derived from the Income Tax Acts and the Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003]

Textual Amendments

PART IIIU.K. PAYMENT AND RECOVERY OR EARNINGS-RELATED CONTRIBUTIONS, CLASS 1A CONTRIBUTIONS AND CLASS 1B CONTRIBUTIONS, ETC.

Payment of earnings-related contributions monthly by employerU.K.

10.—(1) Subject to [F2sub-paragraph (1A) and] paragraph 11 and 15(8), the employer shall pay the amount specified in sub-paragraph (2) to the [F3Inland Revenue] within 14 days [F4or, if payment is made by an approved method of electronic communications in respect of earnings paid after 5th April 2004, within 17 days] of the end of every F5... tax month.

[F6(1A) This paragraph does not apply in respect of amounts of retrospective earnings.]

(2) The amount specified in this sub-paragraph is the total amount of earnings-related contributions due in respect of F7[F8... earnings] paid by the employer in that F9... tax month, [F10(and, where required, reported under paragraph 21A or 21D)] other than amounts deductible under paragraph 7(2) which he did not deduct and amounts which he deducted under the Compensation of Employers RegulationsF11....

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), if two or more payments of F7[F12... earnings] fall to be aggregated, the employer shall be treated as having deducted from the last of those payments the amount of any earnings-related contributions deductible from those payments which he did not deduct from the earlier payments.

[F13(3A) The amount specified in sub-paragraph (2) must be adjusted to take account of errors corrected under paragraph 21E(5), other than in cases where paragraph 21E(4) applies[F14, or failures rectified under paragraph 21EA(2)].]

[F15(4) Where the amount specified in sub-paragraph (2) has been adjusted to take account of an error as provided for in sub-paragraph (3A) and the value of the adjustment is a negative amount, that amount is treated as having been paid to HMRC—

(a)17 days after the end of the tax month in which the correction is made if payment is made using an approved method of electronic communications, and

(b)14 days after the end of the tax month in which the correction is made, in any other case.]

Textual Amendments

F14Words in Sch. 4 para. 10(3A) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment and Application of Schedule 38 to the Finance Act 2012) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/622), regs. 1, 7

F15Sch. 4 para. 10(4) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1016), regs. 1(1), 2(a)