Part 4 U.K.Pension schemes etc

Chapter 6U.K.Schemes that are not registered pension schemes

Employer-financed retirement benefit schemesU.K.

248Employer’s cost of insuring against non-payment of benefitU.K.

(1)Section 307 of ITEPA 2003 (no liability to income tax in respect of chargeable benefit on provision made by employer for a retirement or death benefit) is amended as follows.

(2)After subsection (1) insert—

(1A)Subsection (1) does not apply to provision made for insuring against the risk that a retirement or death benefit under an employer-financed retirement benefits scheme cannot be paid or given because of the employer’s insolvency.

(1B)In subsection (1A) “employer-financed retirement benefits scheme” has the same meaning as in Chapter 2 of Part 6 (see section 393A).

(3)In subsection (2), for “subsection (1)” substitute “this section”.

Commencement Information

I1Ss. 160-274, 281, Schs. 30-35 in force at 6.4.2006 but any power to make an order or regulations under those provisions may be exercised at any time after Royal Assent, see s. 284