PART XIV PENSION SCHEMES, SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS, LIFE ANNUITIES ETC.

CHAPTER I RETIREMENT BENEFIT SCHEMES

Charge to tax in certain cases

599A Charge to tax: payments out of surplus funds.
(1) This subsection applies to any payment which is made to or for the benefit of an employee or to his personal representatives out of funds which are or have been held for the purposes of—
(a) a scheme which is or has at any time been an exempt approved scheme, or
(b) a relevant statutory scheme established under a public general Act,
and which is made in pursuance of a duty to return surplus funds.
(2) On the making of a payment to which subsection (1) above applies, the administrator of the scheme shall be charged to income tax under Case VI of Schedule D at the relevant rate on such amount as, after deduction of tax at that rate, would equal the amount of the payment.
S. 599A(2) modified (6.4.2000) by The Income Tax (Charge to Tax) (Payments out of Surplus Funds) (Relevant Rate) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/600), art. 2
(3) Subject to subsection (4) below, the relevant rate shall be 35 per cent.
(4) The Treasury may by order from time to time increase or decrease the relevant rate.
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S. 599A(5)(6)(8) repealed (6.4.2003 with effect in accordance with s. 723(1) of the repealing Act) by Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1), Sch. 6 para. 77, Sch. 8 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 7)
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S. 599A(7) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 121(8) of the repealing Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), s. 122(7)(c), Sch. 41 Pt. 5(6), Note 3
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(9) Any payment chargeable to tax under this section shall not be chargeable to tax under section 598, 599 or 600 or under the Regulations mentioned in paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to the Finance Act 1971.
(10) In this section—
“employee”, in relation to a relevant statutory scheme, includes any officer;
references to any payment include references to any transfer of assets or other transfer of money’s worth.
1989 s.75and Sch.6 paras.12and 18(9)in relation to payments made on or after 27July 1989.
Pt. 14 Ch. 1 (ss. 590-612) modified (31.3.1995) by Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (c. 8), ss. 18, 19(4), 31(2); S.I. 1995/631, art. 2