EIM12250 - PAYE: employment-related securities: securities with artificially enhanced market value

Part 7 Chapter 3B ITEPA 2003

Part 7 Chapter 3B ITEPA 2003 was introduced with effect from 16 April 2003 by Schedule 22 FA 2003. It provides for a charge to income tax in certain cases where the market value of employment-related securities is increased by things done otherwise than for genuine commercial purposes. See /manual/employment-related-securities/ersm60000

PAYE

Section 698 ITEPA 2003 was fundamentally amended by Schedule 22 FA 2003 with effect from 1 September 2003. Where:

  • by reason of an event affecting the market value of employment-related securities held by an employee
  • an amount counts as employment income of that employee by reason of Part 7 Chapter 3B

then by virtue of Section 698 the employer is required to operate PAYE if the relevant employment-related securities are readily convertible assets (see EIM12400).

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp employer is not required to operate PAYE on an amount that counts as employment income of an employee by reason of Part 7 Chapter 3B if the relevant event occurs on a day before 1 September 2003.