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Section 997A Credit in respect of tax deducted from emoluments of certain directors

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Amendments

Section 997A inserted by Finance Act 2005 section 13.

(1)(a) In this section―

"control" has the same meaning as in section 432;

"ordinary share capital" in relation to a company, means all the issued share capital (by whatever name called) of the company.

(b) For the purposes of this section―

(i) a person shall have a material interest in a company if the person, either on the person's own or with any one or more connected persons, or if any person connected with the person with or without any such other connected persons, is the beneficial owner of, or is able, directly or through the medium of other companies or by any other indirect means, to control, more than 15 per cent of the ordinary share capital of the company, and

(ii) the question of whether a person is connected with another person shall be determined in accordance with section 10.

(2) This section applies to a person to who, in relation to a company (hereafter in this section referred to as "the company"), has a material interest in the company.

What is a material interest in a company?

(1)-(2) This is an anti-avoidance section. It applies to you if you have a material interest in a company, i.e., if you alone, or through connected persons, are able, directly or indirectly, to control more than 15% of the company's ordinary share ca...

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(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Income Tax Acts or the regulations made under this Chapter, no credit for tax deducted from the emoluments paid by the company to a person to whom this section applies shall be given in any assessment raised on the person or in any statement of liability sent to the person under [INVALID LINK of the Income Tax (Employments) (Consolidated) Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 559 of 2001) unless there is documentary evidence to show that the tax deducted has been remitted by the company to the Collector-General in accordance with the provisions of those regulations.

If I have a material interest in a company, how is credit given for PAYE deducted from my emoluments?

(3) No credit is given in respect of PAYE deducted from emoluments paid to you in (2) unless such PAYE has been remitted to the Collector-General by the employer.

(4) Where the company remits tax to the Collector-General which has been deducted from emoluments paid by the company, the tax remitted shall be treated as having been deducted from emoluments paid to persons other than persons to whom this section applies in priority to tax deducted from persons to whom this section applies.

What is the priority given to PAYE deducted by the employer from persons not holding a material interest in the company?

(4) PAYE paid by the employer is allocated in priority to employees who do not have a material interest in the company.

(5) Where, in accordance with subsection (4), tax remitted to the Collector-General by the company is to be treated as having been deducted from emoluments paid by the company to persons to whom this section applies, the tax to be so treated shall, if there is more than one such person, be treated as having been deducted from the emoluments paid to each such person in the same proportion as the emoluments paid to the person bears to the aggregate amount of emoluments paid by the company to all such persons.

How is PAYE allocated between employees with a material interest?

(5) The proportion of the total emoluments which was attributed to each employee is the figure which is considered.

(6) Where, in accordance with subsection (5), the tax to be treated as having been deducted from the emoluments paid to each person to whom this section applies exceeds the actual amount of tax deducted from the emoluments of each person, then the amount of credit to be given for tax deducted from those emoluments shall not exceed the actual amount of tax so deducted.

Amendments

Subs (6) inserted by Finance Act 2010 section 8 for 2010 and later tax years.

Is there a limit on the credit for PAYE deducted?

(6) The credit for PAYE treated as deducted from a director's emoluments cannot exceed the tax so deducted.

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