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(3) (a) Subject to subsection (4) and paragraphs (b) and (c), the employments to which this Chapter applies shall be employments the emoluments of which, estimated for the year of assessment in question according to the Income Tax Acts and on the basis that they are employments to which this Chapter applies, and without any deduction being made under section 114 in respect of money expended in performing the duties of those employments, are £1,500 £1,110 €1,905 or more.

(1) Subject to this Chapter, any sum paid in respect of expenses by a body corporate to any of its directors or to any person employed by it in an employment to which this Chapter applies shall, if not otherwise chargeable to income tax as income of that director or employee, be treated for the purposes of section 112 as a perquisite of the office or employment of that director or employee and included in the emoluments of that office or employment assessable to income tax accordingly; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a claim for a deduction being made under section 114 in respect of any money expended wholly, exclusively and necessarily in performing the duties of the office or employment.

then, sections 112, 114 and 897 shall apply in relation to so much of the expense as is not made good to the body corporate by the director or employee as if the expense had been incurred by the director or employee and the amount of the expense had been refunded to the director or employee by the body corporate by means of a payment in respect of expenses, and income tax shall be chargeable accordingly.

5. Subsection (2) and sections 114, 115 and 925 shall apply in relation to the tax to be charged under this Schedule.

(3) Sections 114 and 115 shall not apply in relation to expenses in full settlement of which an allowance referred to in subsection (2) is payable, and no claim shall lie under those sections in respect of those expenses.

(i) as a deduction under section 114, or

(4) Notwithstanding anything in the Tax Acts, the income, profits or gains from an office or employment shall for the purposes of this section be deemed not to include any amounts paid in respect of expenses in respect of which a deduction would be due under section 114.

(12) Notwithstanding anything in the Tax Acts, the income, profits or gains from an employment with a relevant employer or with an associated company shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed not to include any amounts paid in respect of expenses for which deductions would be due under section 114.

(2)Sections 114 and 115 shall not apply in relation to expenses in full settlement of which an allowance is payable under section 3 of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act, 1992, or under section 3 of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 2009 or any allowance or payment made in respect of any particular allowance or payment referred to in subsection (1) of that section and no claim shall lie under those sections in respect of those expenses; but where a Minister of the Government, the Attorney General or a Minister of State, being—

is, arising out of the performance of his or her duties as an office holder or as a member of the Oireachtas, obliged to maintain a second residence in addition to his or her main residence, he or she shall be granted a deduction under section 114 in respect of expenses incurred by him or her in maintaining that second residence but such expenses shall not include local property tax payable under section 16 of the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 or the charge for water services payable under section 21 of the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013.

(c) allowed under section 114.