Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

Training courses for employees

23 (1) This paragraph applies if—

(a) at any time during the period beginning with 6th April 2003 and ending with 5th April 2005, a person (“the employer”) incurred expenditure in paying or reimbursing retraining course expenses within the meaning of section 311 of ITEPA 2003,

(b) the employer’s liability to income tax for any tax year has been determined (before or after the passing of this Act, and by assessment or otherwise) on the assumption that, by virtue only of section 588(3) of ICTA, the employer is entitled to a deduction on account of the expenditure, and

(c) before 6th April 2005, no assessment has been made under section 29(1) of TMA 1970 by virtue of section 588(5) of ICTA of an amount due in consequence of the failure by the person in respect of whom the expenditure was incurred to meet a condition of the kind mentioned in section 312(1)(b)(i) or (ii) of ITEPA 2003.

(2) Section 75 (retraining courses: recovery of tax) applies in relation to the employer as if the condition in subsection (1) were met.

(3) In the application of that section to the employer, references to “the employee” are to the person in respect of whom the expenditure was incurred by the employer.