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The Individual Savings Account (Amendment No. 3) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020

S.I. 2020/506 · Made 13 May 2020 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Income Tax

Capital Gains Tax

Made 13th May 2020

Laid before the House of Commons 14th May 2020

Coming into force 4th June 2020

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 151 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 M1, sections 694, 695 and 701 of the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 M2 and paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Savings (Government Contributions) Act 2017 M3, make the following Regulations.

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Marginal citations

M1

1992 c. 12. Section 151 was amended by section 85 of the Finance Act 1993 (c. 34), paragraph 436 of Schedule 1 to the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005, section 40(6) of the Finance Act 2011(c. 11) and section 27(2) of the Finance Act 2016 (c. 24).

M2

2005 c. 5. Section 694 was amended by section 40(2) of the Finance Act 2011. Section 695 was amended by paragraph 132 of Schedule 4 to the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11). Section 701 was amended by section 40 of the Finance Act 2008 (c. 9) and section 40(5) of the Finance Act 2011.

M3

2017 c. 2.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998
  3. 3Regulation 3
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencementI1

These Regulations may be cited as the Individual Savings Account (Amendment No. 3) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 4th June 2020.

2Amendment of the Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998I1

The Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998 M1 are amended as follows.

3I1

In the Schedule, after paragraph 5, insert—

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5A

Notwithstanding paragraph 5, the specified percentage in respect of the period beginning on 6th March 2020 and ending on 5th April 2021 is 20%.”.

Signature

Maggie Throup

Iain Stewart

Two of the Lord Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

13th May 2020

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1870).

They provide for the withdrawal charge in respect of a Lifetime ISA for the period beginning on 6th March 2020 and ending on 5th April 2021 to be reduced from 25% to 20%.

A Tax Information and Impact Note will be published on the HM Government website at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-information-and-impact-notes-tiins.