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Paragraph 10 I1

Northern Ireland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Where a claimant receives income under an annuity purchased with a loan, which satisfies the following conditions –

(a)

that the loan was made as part of a scheme under which not less than 90 per cent. of the proceeds of the loan were applied to the purchase by the person to whom it was made of an annuity ending with his life or with the life of the survivor of 2 or more persons (in this paragraph referred to as “the annuitants”) who include the person to whom the loan was made;

(b)

that at the time the loan was made the person to whom it was made or each of the annuitants had attained the age of 65;

(c)

that the loan was secured on a dwelling in Northern Ireland and the person to whom the loan was made or one of the annuitants owns an estate or interest in that dwelling;

(d)

that the person to whom the loan was made or one of the annuitants occupies the dwelling on which it was secured as his home at the time the interest is paid, and

(e)

that the interest payable on the loan is paid by the person to whom the loan was made or by one of the annuitants,

the amount, calculated on a weekly basis, equal to –

(i)

where, or insofar as, section 369 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988f1 (mortgage interest payable under deduction of tax) applies to the payments of interest on the loan, the interest which is payable after deduction of a sum equal to income tax on such payments at the applicable percentage of income tax within the meaning of section 369(1A) of that Actf2;

(ii)

in any other case the interest which is payable on the loan without deduction of such a sum.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 4 para. 10 in operation at 6.10.2003, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

1988 c. 1

f2

Subsection (1A) was inserted by section 81(3) of the Finance Act 1994 (c. 9)