S.I. No. 623/2017 - Income Tax (Employments) Regulations 2017

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Income Tax (Employments) Regulations 2017.

2. The Income Tax (Employments) (Consolidated) Regulations 2001 (

S.I. No. 559 of 2001

) are amended for the year of assessment 2018 and subsequent years of assessment by deleting Regulations 43 and 44.

GIVEN under my hand,

28 December 2017.

LIAM IRWIN,

Revenue Commissioner.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation).

These Regulations amend the Income Tax (Employments) (Consolidated) Regulations 2001 (the PAYE system for Income Tax). Regulations 43 and 44, which provide for the taxation of certain Social Welfare benefits by employers, are deleted for the year of assessment 2018 and subsequent years.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

5

th January

, 2018.

The Revenue Commissioners, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by

section 986

of the

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997

(No. 39 of 1997), hereby make the following regulations