NIM02731 - Earnings of employees and office holders: retirement benefits schemes from 6th April 2006 - overseas pension schemes: employer's payments that qualify for migrant member relief or transitional corresponding tax relief
Paragraph 3(a) and (b) of Part 6 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001 (as substituted by regulation 8(3) of the Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006)
Paragraph 2 of Schedule 33 to the Finance Act 2004
Article 15 of the Taxation of Pensions Schemes (Transitional Provisions) Order 2006 (SI 2006/572)
For the meaning of migrant member relief and transitional corresponding relief see NIM02730 . An employer’s payment to which either:
- paragraph 2 of Schedule 33 (tax relief for employer contributions to a “qualifying overseas pension scheme”); or
- article 15 of the above Order (employers with pre-commencement entitlement to corresponding relief)
applies, is disregarded in the calculation of earnings for Class 1 NICs purposes:
Paragraph 2 will apply to an employer’s payment if
- the payment is a “relevant migrant member contribution”. That is, a payment made to a “qualifying overseas pension scheme”; and
- the employee is a “relevant migrant member” of the scheme.
In broad terms, article 15 will apply to an employer’s payment if:
- their employee was, in the 2005/06 tax year, a member of a “corresponding” overseas pension scheme,
- the employee is still a member of that scheme,
- the scheme manager has undertaken to provide HMRC with information about payments made to the employee, and
- the employer received a deduction in accordance with section 76(6A) and (6C) Finance Act 1989 for payments made in the 2005/06 tax year to that scheme in respect of the employee, and
- the employer’s payment to that scheme is in respect of the employee.
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