Section 76: Redundancy payments and approved contractual payments
302.This section sets out the circumstances in which the following three sections apply and explains the terms used in the main provisions. It is based on section 579 of ICTA. The corresponding rule for income tax is in section 76 of ITTOIA.
303.The sections retain the label “redundancy payment” (from section 579 of ICTA) and the expression “additional payment” (from section 90 of ICTA). This section also introduces the label “approved contractual payment” to describe the payments that may replace redundancy payments in some cases.