Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 Explanatory Notes

Section 481: Excepted group life policies: conditions about benefits

1913.This section is based on section 539A of ICTA. The conditions set out here and in the next section ensure that the only policies benefiting from the exclusion are those:

  • providing death benefits on equal terms for all lives covered; and

  • having a minimal surrender value (if any).

1914.For example, condition A (subsection (2)) sets an upper age limit of 75 for any age-related restriction of the payment of benefits on death in any circumstances. It also disregards any limitation on payment of death benefits for particular reasons (for example, suicide) if the same limitation (“the same specified circumstances”) applies to all lives assured.

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