SE70400 - 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 paymentTax treatment
Payments to the employed, self-employed or unemployedTaxable under Schedule E
Payments during retrainingTaxable only under Section 148 ICTA 1988
Grants to employees who are transferredTaxable under Schedule E but:
- for transfers up to 5.4.1993, only to the extent that the relocation and disturbance exceeds the amount which appears to the Inspector reasonable in all the circumstances
- for transfers on or after 6.4.1993, exemption for the first £8000 of expenses may be available under Schedule 11A ICTA 1988 (see SE03103 and subsequent guidance).