The Social Security Contributions (Intermediaries) Regulations 2000

[F1 Deductions from chain payments E+W+S

19.— (1) This regulation applies if, as a result of regulation 18, a person who is treated as making a payment of deemed direct earnings is required under the Contributions Regulations to pay primary Class 1 contributions to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (the Commissioners) in respect of the payment.

(But see paragraph (4)).

(2) The person may deduct from the underlying chain payment an amount which is equal to the amount payable to the Commissioners in respect of primary Class 1 contributions, but where the amount or value of the underlying chain payment is treated by regulation 17(4) as increased by the cost of any amount due under the Contributions Regulations, the amount that may be deducted is limited to the difference (if any) between the amount of primary Class 1 contributions payable to the Commissioners and the amount of that increase.

(3) Where a person in the chain other than the intermediary receives a chain payment from which an amount has been deducted in reliance on paragraph (2) or this paragraph, that person may deduct the same amount from the chain payment made by them.

(4) This regulation does not apply in a case to which regulation 22(2) applies.

(5) In paragraph (2) “the underlying chain payment” means the chain payment whose amount is used at Step 1 of regulation 17(1) as the starting point for calculating the amount of the deemed direct earnings.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Part 2 inserted (incorporating regs. 13-23) (6.4.2017) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/373), regs. 1, 2(13)