Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997 (Number 39 of 1997)
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1031J. Maintenance of civil partners living apart.
(1) In this section—
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“maintenance arrangement” means an order of a court under Part 5 or 12 of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 giving rise to a legally enforceable obligation;
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“maintenance arrangement” means—
(a) an order of a court under Part 5 or 12 of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, or
(b) a trust, covenant, agreement, arrangement or any other act giving rise to a legally enforceable obligation and made or done in consideration or in consequence of—
(i) the dissolution or annulment of a civil partnership, or
(ii) living separately in the circumstances referred to in section 1031A(2),
and a maintenance arrangement relates to the civil partnership in consideration or in consequence of the dissolution or annulment of which, or of the living separately in the circumstances referred to in section 1031A(2) to which, the maintenance arrangement was made or arises;
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“payment” means a payment or part of a payment, as the case may be.
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(1A) In this section a reference to a child of a civil partner includes a child in respect of whom the civil partner was at any time before the making of the maintenance arrangement concerned entitled to relief under section 465.
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(2) (a) This section shall apply to payments made directly or indirectly by a civil partner under or pursuant to a maintenance arrangement [4]>relating to the civil partnership for the benefit of his or her child, or for the benefit of the other civil partner being payments—<[4]
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(i) which are made at a time when one civil partner is not living with the other,
(ii) the making of which is legally enforceable, and
(iii) which are annual or otherwise periodical.
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(b) For the purposes of this section and of section 1031K, a payment, whether conditional or not, which is made directly or indirectly by a civil partner or former civil partner under or pursuant to a maintenance arrangement shall be deemed to be made for the benefit of his or her civil partner or former civil partner.
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(b) For the purposes of this section and section 1031K, but subject to paragraph (c), a payment, whether conditional or not, which is made directly or indirectly by a civil partner or former civil partner under or pursuant to a maintenance arrangement relating to the civil partnership concerned (other than a payment of which the amount, or the method of calculating the amount, is specified in the maintenance arrangement and from which, or from the consideration for which, neither a child of the civil partner making the payment nor the other civil partner derives any benefit) shall be deemed to be made for the benefit of his or her civil partner or former civil partner.
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(c) Where the payment, in accordance with the maintenance arrangement, is made or directed to be made for the use and benefit of a child of the civil partner making the payment, or for the maintenance, support, education or other benefit of such a child, or in trust for such a child, and the amount or the method of calculating the amount of such payment so made or directed to be made is specified in the maintenance arrangement, that payment shall be deemed to be made for the benefit of such child, and not for the benefit of any other person.
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(3) Notwithstanding anything in the Income Tax Acts but subject to section 1031K, as respects any payment to which this section applies made directly or indirectly by one civil partner or former civil partner under or pursuant to a maintenance arrangement for the benefit of his or her civil partner or former civil partner—
(a) the individual making the payment—
(i) shall not be entitled on making the payment to deduct and retain out of the payment any sum representing any amount of income tax on the payment, and
(ii) shall, if he or she makes a claim in that behalf in the manner pre- scribed by the Income Tax Acts, be entitled, for the purposes of those Acts, to deduct the payment in computing his or her total income for the year of assessment for which the payment is made,
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(b) the payment shall be deemed for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts to be profits or gains arising to the individual receiving the payment, and income tax shall be charged on that individual under Case IV of Schedule D in respect of those profits or gains.
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(3A) Notwithstanding anything in the Income Tax Acts, as respects any payment to which this section applies made directly or indirectly by a civil partner to which the maintenance arrangement concerned relates for the benefit of his or her child—
(a) the person making the payment shall not be entitled on making the payment to deduct and retain out of the payment any sum representing any amount of income tax on the payment,
(b) the payment shall be deemed for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts not to be income of the child,
(c) the total income for any year of assessment of the civil partner who makes the payment shall be computed for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts as if the payment had not been made, and
(d) for the purposes of section 465(6), the payment shall be deemed to be an amount expended on the maintenance of the child by the civil partner who makes the payment and, notwithstanding that the payment is made to the other civil partner to be applied for or towards the maintenance of the child and is so applied, it shall be deemed for the purposes of that section not to be an amount expended by that other civil partner on the maintenance of the child.
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(4) (a) Subsections (1) and (2) of section 459 and section 460 shall apply to a deduction under subsection (3)(a)(ii) as they apply to any allowance, deduction, relief or reduction under the provisions specified in the Table to section 458.
(b) Subsections (3) and (4) of section 459 and paragraph 8 of Schedule 28 shall, with any necessary modifications, apply in relation to a deduction under subsection (3)(a)(ii).
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Inserted by F(No.3)A11 s1(1). With effect for the year of assessment 2011 and subsequent years of assessment as appropriate.
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Substituted by FA12 s134(1)(h). Has effect as if it had come into operation for the year of assessment (within the meaning of the Income Tax Acts and the Capital Gains Tax Acts) 2011 and each subsequent year of assessment.
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Inserted by FA13 s103(1)(a). Has effect as if it had come into operation for the year of assessment (within the meaning of the Income Tax Acts and Capital Gains Tax Acts) 2011 and each subsequent year of assessment.
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Inserted by FA13 s103(1)(b). Has effect as if it had come into operation for the year of assessment (within the meaning of the Income Tax Acts and Capital Gains Tax Acts) 2011 and each subsequent year of assessment.
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Substituted by FA13 s103(1)(c). Has effect as if it had come into operation for the year of assessment (within the meaning of the Income Tax Acts and Capital Gains Tax Acts) 2011 and each subsequent year of assessment.
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Inserted by FA13 s103(1)(d). Has effect as if it had come into operation for the year of assessment (within the meaning of the Income Tax Acts and Capital Gains Tax Acts) 2011 and each subsequent year of assessment.
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Inserted by FA13 s103(1)(e). Has effect as if it had come into operation for the year of assessment (within the meaning of the Income Tax Acts and Capital Gains Tax Acts) 2011 and each subsequent year of assessment.