Section 342: Travel between employments where duties performed abroad
1476.This section allows a deduction from earnings for travel expenses where an employee, who has performed duties of one employment at the place of departure, travels to perform duties of another employment at the destination, and the place of departure or the destination, or both, are outside the United Kingdom.
1477.The section derives from section 193(5) and (6) of ICTA.
1478.Section 193(6) begins with the words “For the purposes of section 198(1)”. This section sets out all the conditions that have to be met in each case, as opposed to referring to section 336, the successor provision to section 198(1).
1479.Subsections (2) to (7), however, do not reproduce the condition from section 198(1) that the holder of the employment is obliged to incur and defray the expenses, because the Inland Revenue does not rely on this condition before the deduction is allowed. See Change 83 in Annex 1.
1480.Subsection (7) is one of the provisions that make use of the new term “foreign employer”, defined for the purposes of this Act as a whole in section 721.
1481.Subsection (9) provides that this section needs to be read with section 359, which prohibits a deduction if a mileage allowance is paid or if mileage allowance relief is available.