The Further and Higher Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Amendment of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011

11.  In Schedule 4 (financial assessment)—

(a) for paragraph 1(1)(o) substitute—

“(o) “taxable income” means, in relation to paragraph 4, in respect of the academic year for which an application has been made under regulation 9 and, in relation to paragraph 5, in respect (subject to sub-paragraphs (3), (4) and (5) of paragraph 5) of the prior financial year—

(i) the total income on which a person (“A”) is charged to income tax as determined at Step 1 of the calculation in section 23 of the Income Tax Act 2007(1), together with any payments and other benefits mentioned in section 401(1) of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003(2) (ignoring section 401(2) of that Act), received or treated as received by A, to the extent that they are not a component of the total income on which A is charged to income tax;

(ii) A’s total income from all sources as determined for the purposes of the income tax legislation of another Member State which applies to A’s income; or

(iii) where the legislation of more than one Member State applies to the period, A’s total income from all sources as determined for the purposes of the income tax legislation under which the Secretary of State considers that A’s total income in that period is greatest (except as otherwise provided in paragraph 5),

except than no account is taken of income referred to in sub-paragraph (2) paid to another party;”.

(b) in paragraph 4(1)(b), omit the words “under section 273 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988(3) or”; and

(c) in paragraph 5—

(i) omit sub-paragraph (1);

(ii) in sub-paragraph (2), from the beginning to the word “permitted” substitute “For the purposes of determining the residual income of an eligible student’s parent (“A” in this paragraph) there is deducted from the taxable income of A the aggregate of any amounts falling within any of the following sub-paragraphs (unless already deducted in determining a person’s taxable income)”; and

(iii) in sub-paragraph (2)(a), omit the words “under section 273 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988(4) or”.

(1)

2007 c.3; section 23 was amended by the Finance Act 2009 (c.10), Schedule 1, paragraph 6(o)(i), and the Finance Act 2013 (c.29), Schedule 3, paragraph 2(2).

(2)

2003 c.1; section 401 was amended by S.I. 2005/3229, S.I. 2011/1037 and S.I. 2014/211.

(3)

1988 c.1; section 273 of the Act was repealed by the Finance Act 2009 (c.10), Schedule 2, paragraph 2(h).

(4)

1988 c.1; section 273 of the Act was repealed by the Finance Act 2009 (c.10), Schedule 2, paragraph 2(h).