PART 8SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS

CHAPTER 3INCAPACITY BENEFIT

Emergency IB code to be used before claimant’s code issued175

1

Paragraph (2) applies if the Department makes a payment of taxable incapacity benefit during a tax year to a single-income claimant before a code has been issued by the Inland Revenue for that year in respect of that award.

2

The Department must—

a

deduct tax using an emergency IB code on the non-cumulative basis, and

b

keep records in a deductions working sheet which it must prepare for the purpose.

3

The use of an emergency IB code under this regulation is treated as the issue of a code for the purposes of regulations 21, 36 and 180.