Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003

Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12)

217 After section 263 insert—

“263ZA Former employees: employment-related liabilities

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a deduction of the amount of one or more deductible payments may be made under section 555 of ITEPA 2003 (former employee entitled to deduction from total income in respect of liabilities related to the former employment) when computing a former employee’s total income for a tax year, and

(b) the total amount which may be deducted exceeds the total income for that year.

(2) In this section “excess relief” means the amount of the difference between—

(a) the total amount which may be deducted, and

(b) the total income.

(3) The amount of the excess relief may be treated as an allowable loss accruing to the former employee for that tax year.

This subsection applies only if the former employee makes a claim for the purpose.

(4) But no relief is available under subsection (3) in respect of any amount of the excess relief that exceeds the maximum amount.

(5) For the purposes of this section the “maximum amount”, in relation to the excess relief for a tax year, means the amount on which the former employee would be chargeable to capital gains tax for that year if the following were disregarded—

(a) any relief available under this section,

(b) any allowable losses falling to be carried forward to that year from a previous year for the purposes of section 2(2),

(c) section 3(1) (the annual exempt amount),

(d) any relief against capital gains tax under section 72 of the Finance Act 1991 (deduction of trading losses), and

(e) any relief against capital gains tax under section 90(4) of the Finance Act 1995 (relief for post-cessation expenditure).

(6) A former employee may make a claim under subsection (3) and a claim under section 555(3) of ITEPA 2003 in the same notice.”