Commentary on Sections The Income Tax (Offices and Employments) Act 1944 (7&8 Geo. 6. (1943-44) c.12) Machinery of PAYE Section 692: Organised arrangements for sharing tips
2800.This section allows the PAYE regulations to make provision for PAYE to be operated on tips which are collected and shared among a group of employees by whoever runs that arrangement; and also to require the employer to operate PAYE in some circumstances if that person fails to operate PAYE properly. It derives from regulation 5 of the Income Tax (Employments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993 No 744).
2801.This section is included in to give readers a more complete set of provisions which deal with who is the “employer” for PAYE purposes.
2802.Regulation 5 originated in SI 1965 No 516. It was introduced then to make clear that a person (other than the employer) who distributes to employees money from an organised arrangement for sharing tips had the same responsibilities as an employer, unless the Board directed otherwise. This legislation was amended by SI 1994 No 775 to make clear what happens if such a person does not operate PAYE properly.
2803.The regulations refer to the person who shares the tips as the “tronc-master”. This term is still used in practice in some such schemes. It is not used in this Act as users commented in the course of consultation that it was archaic and/or obscure. The term will be omitted from the regulations when they are rewritten.
2804.These provisions are in the current PAYE regulations and have been for many years but their inclusion in this Act is a minor change in the law. See Change 150 in Annex 1.