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Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003

Chapter 17 Exemptions: any taxpayer

  • Section 638 Awards for bravery
  • Section 639 Pensions in respect of death due to military or war service
  • Section 640 Exemption under section 639 where income withheld
  • Section 640A Lump sums provided under armed forces early departure scheme
  • Section 641 Wounds and disability pensions
  • Section 642 Compensation for National-Socialist persecution
  • Section 642A Netherlands Benefit Act for Victims of Persecution 1940-1945
  • Section 643 Malawi, Trinidad and Tobago and Zambia government pensions
  • Section 644 Pensions payable where employment ceased due to disablement
  • Section 644A Health and employment insurance payments
  • Section 645 Social security pensions: increases in respect of children
  • Section 646 Former miners etc: coal and allowances in lieu of coal
  • Section 646A Foreign pensions of consular employees
  • Section 646B Registered schemes: beneficiaries' annuities from unused funds
  • Section 646C Registered schemes: beneficiaries' annuities from drawdown funds
  • Section 646D Non-registered schemes: beneficiaries' annuities from unused funds
  • Section 646E Non-registered schemes: beneficiaries' annuities from drawdown funds
  • Section 646F Interpretation of sections 646B to 646E
  1. Chapter 17 · Exemptions: any taxpayer
  2. Health and employment insurance payments

Section 644A | Health and employment insurance payments F1

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)No liability to income tax arises in respect of a pension or annuity payment if or to the extent that—

(a)were the payment an annual payment falling within Chapter 7 of Part 5 of ITTOIA 2005, it would be exempt from income tax under section 735 of that Act (health and employment insurance payments), and

(b)it meets conditions A and B.

(2)Condition A is that the payments are made—

(a)to a person (“the pensioner”) who made payments or contributions in respect of premiums under an insurance policy which another person took out wholly or partly for the pensioner's benefit, or

(b)to the pensioner's spouse or civil partner .F2

(3)Condition B is that the payments are attributable on a just and reasonable basis to the payments or contributions in respect of premiums.

Notes

  1. F1

    S. 644A inserted (6.4.2005) by Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (c. 5), s. 883(1), Sch. 1 para. 610 (with Sch. 2)

  2. F2

    Words in s. 644A(2)(b) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Tax and Civil Partnership Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3229), regs. 1(1), 161

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