The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003

Quarterly tax periods U.K.

70.—(1) This regulation applies, so that the tax period is a tax quarter, if an employer—

(a) has reasonable grounds for believing that the average monthly amount will be less than £1,500, and

(b) chooses to pay tax quarterly.

[F1 (1A) But this regulation does not apply, so that the tax period remains a month, in respect of amounts of retrospective employment income.]

(2) “The average monthly amount” is the average, for tax months falling within the current tax year, of the amounts found by the formula—

[F2 (P + N + L + S) − (SP + CD)]

(3) In paragraph (2)—

• P is the amount which would be payable to the Inland Revenue under regulation [F3 67G [F4 , as adjusted by regulation 67H(2) where appropriate,] or] 68 [F5 but disregarding any amount payable in respect of retrospective employment income] ...;

• N is the amount which would be payable to the Inland Revenue under the SSCBA and the SSC Regulations disregarding—

  (a)

  any amount of secondary Class 1 contributions in respect of which liability has been transferred to the employed earner by an election made jointly by the employed earner and the secondary contributor for the purposes of paragraph 3B(1) of Schedule 1 to the SSCBA (transfer of liability to be borne by earner)(1); ...

  (aa)

  [F6 any amount payable under retrospective contributions regulations (see paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 4 to the SSC Regulations) in respect of retrospective earnings (within the meaning of those Regulations);]

  (c)

  ...

• L is the amount which would be payable to the Inland Revenue under regulation [F7 54(1) or, in Northern Ireland, 49(1)] of the Student Loans Regulations (payment of repayments deducted to the Inland Revenue) disregarding—

  (a)

  the reduction referred to in paragraph (3) of [F7 those regulations], ...

  (b)

  ...

• S is the amount which would be payable by the employer to the Inland Revenue under sections 559 and 559A of ICTA(2) (deduction on account of tax etc from payments to certain sub-contractors) and regulation 8 of the Income Tax (Sub-contractors in the Construction Industry) Regulations 1993(3)...;

• ...

• SP is the amount which would be payable by the employer to employees by way of statutory sick pay, statutory maternity pay, [F8 statutory paternity pay] [F9 , statutory shared parental pay] [F10 , statutory adoption pay and statutory parental bereavement pay] under the SSCBA; and

• CD is—

  (a)

  if the employer is a company, the amount which others would deduct from payments to it, in its position as a sub-contractor, under section 559 of ICTA (deduction on account of tax etc from payments to certain sub-contractors);

  (b)

  in any other case, nil.

(4) In this regulation—

“employed earner” has the same meaning as in the SSCBA;

“SSCBA” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(4) or, in Northern Ireland, the Social Security Contribution and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(5);

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Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 70(1A) inserted (6.4.2007) by The Income Tax (Pay as You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1077), regs. 1, 14(2)

F2 Formula in reg. 70(2) substituted (6.4.2006) by The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn, etc.), (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/777), regs. 1(1), 3(a)

F3 Words in reg. 70(3) inserted (6.4.2012) by The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/822), regs. 1(1), 31

F4 Words in reg. 70(3) inserted (6.4.2013 with application in relation to the tax year 2013-14 and subsequent tax years) by The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/521), regs. 1(2), 28

F5 Words in reg. 70(3) inserted (6.4.2007) by The Income Tax (Pay as You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1077), regs. 1, 14(3)(a)

F6 Words in reg. 70(3) inserted (6.4.2007) by The Income Tax (Pay as You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1077), regs. 1, 14(3)(b)

F7 Words in reg. 70(3) substituted (6.4.2012) by The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/822), regs. 1(1), 63

F8 Words in reg. 70(3) substituted (5.4.2015) by The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/125), regs. 1(3), 3(a) (with reg. 6)

F9 Words in reg. 70(3) inserted (26.2.2015) by The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/125), regs. 1(2), 3(b), 5 (with reg. 6)

F10 Words in reg. 70(3) substituted (6.4.2020) by The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/240), regs. 1, 3(2)

(1)

Paragraph 3B was inserted in Schedule 1 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4) by section 77(2) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19), and in Schedule 1 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7) by section 81(2) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000.

(2)

Section 559 was amended by section 139 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 27 to, the Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), section 55(2) of the Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Part 3(1) of Schedule 40 to the Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), paragraph 58 of Schedule 6 to ITEPA and by S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19); section 559A was inserted by section 40(1) of the Finance Act 2002.

(3)

S.I. 1993/743.

(4)

1992 c. 4.

(5)

1992 c. 7.