EIM70400 - Tax treatment of steel industry employees: redundancies


Steel Industry employees may be entitled to payments under schemes set up by the European Community (Iron and Steel Employees Re-adaptation Benefits Scheme).

The tax treatment of these payments is as follows:

Type of payment


Tax treatment


Payments to the employed, self-employed or unemployed.Taxable as employment income.
Payments during retraining.Taxable only under Section 403 ITEPA 2003.
Grants to employees who are transferred.Taxable as employment income but exemption for the first £8,000 of expenses may be available under Section 271 ITEPA 2003 (see EIM03103 and subsequent guidance).