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Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003

Crossheading Travel expenses

  • Section 337 Travel in performance of duties
  • Section 338 Travel for necessary attendance
  • Section 339 Meaning of “workplace” and “permanent workplace”
  • Section 339A Travel for necessary attendance: employment intermediaries
  • Section 340 Travel between group employments
  • Section 340A Travel between linked employments
  • Section 341 Travel at start or finish of overseas employment
  • Section 342 Travel between employments where duties performed abroad
  1. Travel expenses
  2. Travel between employments where duties performed abroad

Section 342 | Travel between employments where duties performed abroad

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)A deduction from earnings from an employment is allowed for travel expenses incurred by the employee if conditions A to F are met.

(2)Condition A is that the travel is for the purpose of performing duties of the employment at the destination.

(3)Condition B is that the employee has performed duties of another employment at the place of departure.

(4)Condition C is that the place of departure or the destination or both are outside the United Kingdom.

(5)Condition D is that the duties of one or both of the employments are performed wholly or partly outside the United Kingdom.

(6)Condition E is that the employee is UK resident.F1

(7)Condition F is that in a case where the employer is a foreign employer, the employee is not a qualifying new resident for the purposes of Chapter 5C of Part 2 of this Act or Chapter 5 of Part 8 of ITTOIA 2005 (see section 845B of that Act).F2

(8)If the travel is only partly attributable to the purpose of performing duties of the employment at the destination, this section applies only to the part of the expenses properly so attributable.

(9)This section needs to be read with section 359 (disallowance of travel expenses: mileage allowances and reliefs).

Notes

  1. F1

    Words in s. 342(6) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 46 para. 72 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 46 para. 34

  2. F2

    Words in s. 342(7) substituted (for the tax year 2025-26 and subsequent tax years) by Finance Act 2025 (c. 8), s. 38(3), Sch. 8 para. 1(7) (with Sch. 8 Pt. 3)

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