Commentary on Sections Example 3 Ne = £5,000; Da = 183; De = 183; Smg = 0 Section 332: Meaning of “the deductibility provisions”
1422.This Act rewrites numerous provisions that refer to amounts or expenses whose deduction would be allowed if the employee incurred and paid them out of the emoluments of the employment (or in some cases just incurred or just paid them). See Change 81 in Annex 1.
1423.The provisions of the Act that rewrite these provisions are listed in this section, where they are defined as “the deductibility provisions”.
1424.The requirement that amounts or expenses be incurred and paid out of emoluments of the employment is not, in general, being rewritten: so the deductibility provisions do not rewrite the words “out of the emoluments”. Instead, they refer to amounts or expenses that would be allowed as a deduction if the employee had incurred and paid them.
1425.Since the general requirement in section 329(1) that deductions from earnings are not to exceed earnings is assumed to be met in the deductibility provisions (because of the references in them to the employee being assumed to have paid the amounts or expenses out of emoluments), section 329(5) provides that section 329 is to be disregarded for the purposes of the deductibility provisions.
1426.In the case of the deduction under section 353, where the requirement for payment out of earnings has survived, it is provided that, for the purposes of the deductibility provisions, the expenses are to be assumed to have been paid out of the earnings in question. (See section 353(4).)