Section 242 Annual payments for non-taxable consideration
(1) This section shall apply to any payment which is-
(a) an annuity or other annual payment charged with tax under Case III of Schedule D, other than-
(i) interest,
(ii) an annuity granted in the ordinary course of a business of granting annuities, or
(iii) a payment made to an individual under a liability incurred in consideration of the individual surrendering, assigning or releasing an interest in settled property to or in favour of a person having a subsequent interest,
and
(b) made under a liability incurred for consideration in money or money's worth, where all or any part of such consideration is not required to be taken into account in computing for the purposes of income tax or corporation tax the income of the person making the payment.
(2) Any payment to which this section applies-
(a) shall be made without deduction of income tax,
(b) shall not be allowed as a deduction in computing the income or total income of the person by whom it is made, and
(c) shall not be a charge on income for the purposes of corporation tax.
What is the tax treatment of an annual payment for non-taxable consideration (artificial payment)?
(2) An artificial annual payment (that gives the results shown in the following example) is not regarded as a (deductible) charge against your total income as the payer. Income tax must not be withheld from such payments.
Inspector Manual 8.1.1



