Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

266A Life assurance premiums paid by employer

(1) This section applies if— (a) pursuant to an employer-financed retirement benefits scheme, the employer in any year of assessment pays a sum with a view to the provision of any relevant benefits for or in respect of any employee of that employer, and (b) the payment is made under such an insurance or contract as is mentioned in section 266. This section applies whether or not the accrual of the relevant benefits is dependent on any contingency. (2) Relief, if not otherwise allowable, shall be given to that employee under section 266 in respect of the payment to the extent, if any, to which such relief would have been allowable to him if— (a) the payment had been made by him, and (b) the insurance or contract under which the payment is made had been made with him. (3) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a) benefits are provided in respect of an employee if they are provided for the employee’s spouse, widow or widower, children, dependants or personal representatives. (4) If a sum within subsection (1) is paid with a view to the provision of benefits for or in respect of more than one employee of the employer, part of it is to be treated as paid for or in respect of each of them. (5) The amount treated as paid for or in respect of each employee is— A × B C where— A is the sum paid, B is the amount which would have had to be paid to secure the benefits to be provided for or in respect of the employee in question, and C is the total amount which would have had to be paid to secure the benefits to be provided for or in respect of all the employees if separate payments had been made in the case of each of them. (6) This section does not apply if— (a) in the year of assessment in which the sum is paid the earnings from the employee’s employment are (or, if there are none, would be if there were any) earnings charged on remittance, or (b) the employee is not domiciled in the United Kingdom in the tax year in which the sum is paid and the conditions in subsection (7) are met. (7) Those conditions are— (a) that the employment is with a foreign employer, and (b) that, on a claim made by the employee, the Board are satisfied that the pension scheme corresponds to a registered pension scheme. (8) In subsection (6)(a) “earnings charged on remittance” means earnings which are taxable earnings under— (a) section 22 of ITEPA 2003 (chargeable overseas earnings for year when remittance basis applies and employee outside section 26), or (b) section 26 of that Act (foreign earnings for year when remittance basis applies and employee meets section 26A requirement). (8A) Section 835BA of ITA 2007 (deemed domicile) applies for the purposes of subsection (6)(b). (9) In this section— “employer-financed retirement benefits scheme”, and “relevant benefits”, have the same meaning as in Chapter 2 of Part 6 of ITEPA 2003 (see sections 393A and 393B of that Act).