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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-earnings-and-pensions-act-2003/section-683",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/1",
  "legislation_title": "Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-earnings-and-pensions-act-2003",
  "path": "section/683",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "683",
  "heading": "PAYE income",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Act and any other enactment (whenever passed) “PAYE income” for a tax year consists of—\n(a) any PAYE employment income for the year,\n(b) any PAYE pension income for the year, and\n(c) any PAYE social security income for the year.\n(2) “PAYE employment income” for a tax year means income which consists of—\n(a) any taxable earnings from an employment in the year (determined in accordance with section 10(2)), and\n(b) any taxable specific income from an employment for the year (determined in accordance with section 10(3)).\n(3) “PAYE pension income” for a tax year means, subject to subsections (3A) to (3D), taxable pension income for the year determined in accordance with any of the following provisions—\nsection 571 (United Kingdom pensions),\nsection 578 (United Kingdom social security pensions),\nsection 579B (pension under registered pension scheme),\nsection 612, so far as relating to annuities to which section 610 applies (annuities under non-registered occupational pension schemes),\nsection 616 (certain overseas government pensions paid in the United Kingdom),\nsection 621 (the House of Commons Members' Fund),\nsection 634 (voluntary annual payments).\nsection 637B (tax treatment of pension commencement excess lump sums),\nsection 637G (tax treatment of trivial commutation lump sums and winding-up lump sums),\nsection 637N (trivial commutation lump sum death benefits).\n(3ZA) PAYE employment income” for a tax year does not include any taxable specific income treated as paid or received in that tax year by section 394A or 554Z4A (temporary non-residents).\n(3A) “PAYE pension income” for a tax year also includes any social security pension lump sum (within the meaning of section 7 of F(No.2)A 2005) in respect of which a charge to income tax arises under that section for that tax year.\n(3B) PAYE pension income” for a tax year does not include any taxable pension income that is treated as accruing in that tax year by section 572A or 579CA (temporary non-residents) or section 579CB (inheritance tax overpaid by scheme administrator: refund treated as pension).\n(3C) PAYE pension income” for a tax year does not include any taxable pension income that is treated as accruing in that tax year by virtue of Chapter 15A of Part 9 (pension income: lump sums under registered pension schemes) so far as having effect as applied by paragraph 1(3)(e) of Schedule 34 to FA 2004.\n(3D) “PAYE pension income” for a tax year does not include any amount to which section 579A applies by virtue of any of the following provisions—\nsection 637H(2) (certain defined benefits lump sum death benefits),\nsection 637I(2) (certain pension protection lump sum death benefits),\nsection 637J(2) (certain uncrystallised funds lump sum death benefits),\nsection 637K(2) (certain annuity protection lump sum death benefits),\nsection 637L(2) (certain drawdown pension fund lump sum death benefits),\nsection 637M(2) (certain flexi-access drawdown lump sum death benefits).\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) “PAYE social security income” for a tax year means taxable social security income for the year determined in accordance with section 658(4) or (5) (taxable United Kingdom social security benefits).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 683(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 16 para. 85 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), Sch. 16 para. 60(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 683(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 22(12) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2015 (c. 33), s. 22(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 683(3) substituted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 4(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 683(3) substituted (6.4.2006) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), s. 284(1), Sch. 31 para. 14(2) (with Sch. 36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 683(3) inserted (6.4.2007) by Finance Act 2005 (c. 7), Sch. 10 paras. 60, 64(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 683(3) substituted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 683(3ZA) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 45 para. 153(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 45 para. 130(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 683(3A) inserted (20.7.2005) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2005 (c. 22), s. 10(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 683(3B) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 45 para. 153(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 45 para. 130(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 683(3B) inserted (with application in accordance with s. 71 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2026 (c. 11), ss. 70(6), 71"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "S. 683(3C) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 22(12) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2015 (c. 33), s. 22(8)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in s. 683(3C) substituted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 4(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in s. 683(3C) substituted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 4(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "S. 683(3D) inserted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 4(4)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:42.395488+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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