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  Finance Bill - Clause 5 - Termination Payments Etc: Treatment as Employment Income - Power of Ministers to Reduce Threshold
  
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  @ MP voted aye to prevent ministers reducing the threshold at which payments made in relation to the termination of employment are treated as employment income. 
  
  @ MP voted no to allow ministers to reduce the threshold at which payments made in relation to the termination of employment are treated as employment income. 
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to prevent ministers reducing the threshold at which payments made in relation to the termination of employment are treated as employment income. 
  
  MPs were considering the Finance Bill[1].
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 1, page 14, line 15, leave out âdifferentâ and insert âhigherâ.
  
  Had it not been rejected the amendment would have impacted clause 5[2] of the Bill an in particular a provision titled: ''Power to vary threshold'' which stated:
  
  :(1) The Treasury may by regulations amend the listed provisions by substituting, for the amount for the time being mentioned in those provisions, a different amount.
  
  The amount in question is the Â£30,000 threshold provided for by [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/1/part/6/chapter/3/crossheading/payments-and-benefits-treated-as-employment-income Sections 403 and 404 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003], over which payments on termination of employment are treated as employment income for tax purposes. 
  
  The rejected amendment was accompanied by the following explanatory note:
  
  :This amendment removes the power for the Treasury to reduce the Â£30,000 threshold in connection with the taxation of termination payments by regulations.
  
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  * [1] [https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/finance.html Parliament's webpage on the Finance Bill 2017-19]
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2017-2019/0116/cbill_2017-20190116_en_2.htm#pt1-pb1-l1g5 Clause 5 of the Finance Bill 2017-19]
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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