17PAYE: benefits in kind
(1)Section 684 of ITEPA 2003 (PAYE regulations) is amended as follows.
(2)In the list in subsection (2), after item 1 insert—
“1ZAProvision—
(a)for authorising a person (“P”), in a case where the PAYE income of an employee (whether an employee of P or of another person) includes an amount charged to tax under any of Chapters 3 and 5 to 10 of Part 3 in respect of the provision of a benefit of a specified kind—
(i)to make deductions of income tax in respect of the benefit from any payment or payments actually made of, or on account of, PAYE income of the employee, or
(ii)to make repayments of such income tax,
(b)for any such deductions or repayments to be made at a specified time,
(c)for the amount of any such deductions or repayments to be calculated in accordance with the regulations,
(d)for the provision of the benefit to be treated for specified purposes as a payment of PAYE income, and
(e)for making persons who make any such deductions or repayments accountable to or, as the case may be, entitled to repayment from the Commissioners.”
(3)For subsection (3) substitute—
“(3)The deductions of income tax—
(a)required to be made by PAYE regulations under item 1 in the above list, or
(b)which a person is authorised to make by PAYE regulations under item 1ZA in that list,
may be required to be made at the basic rate or other rates in such cases or classes of case as may be provided by the regulations.”