ESM3145 - How to calculate the deemed payment
Paragraph 7 Schedule 12 Finance Act 2000/Section 54 ITEPA 2003
Regulation 7(1) SI 2000 No.727
The legislation treats the intermediary as having made a
payment, called a deemed payment, to the worker, which is taxable
under Schedule E/as employment income and subject to Class 1 NICs.
The deemed payment is treated as an emolument of/earnings from an
employment with the intermediary and PAYE should be operated on it.
This deemed payment is based upon the income from relevant
engagements less certain deductions. It is calculated as
follows:
| Step One | The starting point for working out the deemed payment is the amount received by the intermediary in the tax year in respect of engagements to which the legislation applies. From this amount a flat rate 5% is deducted, to cover other unspecified expenses, such as running costs of the intermediary (see ESM3160). |
| Step Two | Add any payments or benefits received by the worker, or his family, in respect of the relevant engagements from anyone other than the intermediary which are not otherwise chargeable to income tax under Schedule E/as employment income but would be if the worker were employed by the client (see ESM3161). |
| Step Three | Deduct any expenses met by the intermediary, which could have been claimed as expenses against income tax if the worker had been an employee of the client and had paid for them himself (see ESM3162). |
| Step Four | Deduct any capital allowances in respect of expenditure incurred by the intermediary that the worker could have claimed if employed by the client and he or she had incurred the expenditure (see ESM3163). |
| Step Five | Deduct any contributions to an approved pension scheme by the company for the benefit of the worker (see ESM3164). |
| Step Six | Deduct any employer’s Class 1 and Class 1A NICs paid by the intermediary for that year in respect of salary or benefits in kind provided to the worker during the year (see ESM3165). |
| Step Seven | Deduct the amount of any salary and benefits in kind received by the worker from the intermediary which are already taxable under Schedule E/as employment income. This does not include anything for which a deduction has already been given at Step Three (see ESM3166). |
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| If the figure you reach at Step Seven is nil or a negative number, then there is no deemed payment and no further tax or NIC are payable. If the result is positive, move on to Step Eight |
| Step Eight | Deduct the amount of the Employer’s NICs on the deemed payment. It is therefore necessary to calculate the amount, which, together with the employer’s NICs on it, equals the result of Step Seven (see ESM3169). |
| Step Nine | The amount that you are left with is the deemed payment on which tax and NICs are payable |
