# The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Default Scheme) (England) Regulations 2012, Paragraph 64: Income treated as capital: persons who are not pensioners

Extent: E+W+S

(1) This paragraph applies in relation to persons who are not pensioners.
(2) Any bounty derived from employment to which paragraph 9 of Schedule 7 (sums disregarded in the calculation of earnings: persons who are not pensioners) applies and paid at intervals of at least one year is to be treated as capital.
(3) Any amount by way of a refund of income tax deducted from profits or emoluments chargeable to income tax under Schedule D or E is to be treated as capital.
(4) Any holiday pay which is not earnings under paragraph 41(1)(d) or 51(1)(d) (earnings of employed earners) is to be treated as capital.
(5) Except any income derived from capital disregarded under paragraphs 4, 5, 7, 11, 17, 30 to 33, 50 or 51 of Schedule 10 (capital disregards: persons who are not pensioners), any income derived from capital is to be treated as capital but only from the date it is normally due to be credited to the applicant’s account.
(6) In the case of employment as an employed earner, any advance of earnings or any loan made by the applicant’s employer is to be treated as capital.
(7) Any charitable or voluntary payment which is not made or due to be made at regular intervals, other than a payment which is made under or by the Trusts, the Fund, the Eileen Trust, MFET Limited, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation, the Independent Living Fund (2006) or the London Bombings Charitable Relief Fund, is to be treated as capital.
(8) There is to be treated as capital the gross receipts of any commercial activity carried on by a person in respect of which assistance is received under the self-employment route, but only in so far as those receipts were payable into a special account during the period in which that person was receiving such assistance.
(9) Any arrears of subsistence allowance which are paid to an applicant as a lump sum must be treated as capital.
(10) Any arrears of working tax credit or child tax credit must be treated as capital.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2886/schedule/paragraph/64 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-schemes-default-scheme-england-regulations-2012/schedule/paragraph-64
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