[55C Election to reduce personal allowance]

[Election to reduce personal allowance]

[55C  Election to reduce personal allowance]

[(1)     An individual may make an election for the purposes of section 55B if—

(a)     the individual is married to, or in a civil partnership with, the same person [(“the gaining party”)]—

(i)     for the whole or part of the tax year concerned, and

(ii)     when the election is made [or, where the election is made after the death of one or each of them, when they were last both living],

(b)     the individual is entitled to a personal allowance under section 35 . . . for that tax year,

(c)     assuming the individual's personal allowance was reduced as set out in section 55B(6), the individual would not for that year be liable

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