The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003

Information employer must also provide for benefits code employeesU.K.

87.—(1) Particulars of the following information must also be provided in the case of each employee whose employment is subject to the benefits code—

F1(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)any sums put by the employer or related third party at the disposal of the employee by reason of the employment and paid away by the employee;

(c)any benefits provided by the employer or related third party for the employee such as give rise to any amount treated by Chapters 6 to 10 of Part 3, and section 223, of ITEPA(1) (cars and vans, loans, shares, other benefits and payments on account of director’s tax) as earnings of the employee received in that tax year, including the amount of those earnings.

[F2(d)any mileage allowance payments which are not approved mileage allowance payments;

(e)any passenger payments which are not approved passenger payments.]

(2) Particulars are not required under paragraph (1) of removal expenses and removal benefits to which section 271 of ITEPA (limited exemption of removal benefits and expenses) applies (as to which see regulation 86(2)).

(3) In the case of any earnings relating to business entertainment, as defined by section 577 of ICTA, the employer must also inform the Inland Revenue whether the amount of the earnings has been or will be disallowed as a deduction or inclusion as mentioned in section 577(1)(a) of that Act in any tax computation relating to the trade, business, profession or vocation of the employer.

(4) [F3“approved mileage allowance payments” are mileage allowance payments that are approved in accordance with section 229(3) of ITEPA;

“approved passenger payments” are passenger payments that are approved in accordance with section 233(4) of ITEPA;

“mileage allowance payments” have the meaning given by section 229(2) of ITEPA;

“passenger payments” have the meaning given by section 233(3) of ITEPA.]

“Related third party” has the meaning given in regulation 86(4).

(5) Regulation 85(3) (meaning of employment “subject to benefits code”) applies for the purposes of this regulation.

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Relevant amendments were made to Chapters 8 and 9 of Part 3 of ITEPA by paragraphs 22 and 23 of Schedule 22 to the Finance Act 2003 (c. 14).