Statutory Instruments
2002 No. 2930
income tax
The Income Tax (Indexation) (No. 2) Order 2002
Made
27th November 2002
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 257C(3) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988( 1 ) hereby make the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Income Tax (Indexation) (No. 2) Order 2002.
2. —(1) The amounts which, unless Parliament otherwise determines, will be treated by virtue of sections 257C(1) and 265(1A) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 as specified for the year 2003-04 in sections 257 and 257A( 2 ), and 265( 3 ) of that Act are set out in paragraphs (2), (3), and (4).
(2) In section 257(5) of that Act (personal allowance – income limit for age-related allowances) – £18,300.
(3) In section 257A of that Act (married couple’s allowance) –
(a) in subsection (2) (married couple’s allowance – age 68 to 74 and born before 6 April 1935) – £5,565;
(b) in subsection (3) (married couple’s allowance – age 75 and over) – £5,635;
(c) in subsection (5) (income limit for age-related allowances) – £18,300;
(d) in subsection (5A) (minimum married couple’s allowance) – £2,150.
(4) In section 265(1) of that Act (blind person’s allowance) – £1,510.
Nick Ainger
Jim Fitzpatrick
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
27th November 2002
1988 c. 1 . Sections 257 to 257F were substituted for section 257 by section 33 of the Finance Act 1988 (c. 39) with effect for the year 1990-91 and subsequent years of assessment. Section 257C was amended by Part IV of Schedule 19 to the Finance Act 1990 (c. 29) , and section 107(3) of, and Part III(10) of Schedule 23 to, the Finance Act 1993 (c. 34) , extended by section 56(2) of the Finance Act 1997 (c. 16) , and further amended by section 25(3) of the Finance Act 1999 (c. 16) , and section 27(b) of the Finance Act 2002 (c. 23) .
Sections 257 and 257A as substituted by section 33 of the Finance Act 1988 were amended by section 33 of the Finance Act 1989 (c. 26) . Section 257 was further amended by paragraph 13 of Schedule 20 and Part V(10) of Schedule 41 to the Finance Act 1996 (c. 8) ; and section 257A was further amended by section 77(2) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to, the Finance Act 1994 (c. 9) and by paragraph 14 of Schedule 20 to the Finance Act 1996, and was amended and extended by section 31 of the Finance Act 1999.
Section 265 was substituted by paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to the Finance Act 1988 with effect for the year 1990-91 and subsequent years of assessment, and was amended by sections 33(10) and 57(4) of the Finance Act 1989 (c. 26) , by section 33(4) of the Finance Act 1991 (c. 31) , by paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 and Part VII(1) of Schedule 18 to the Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48) , by paragraph 3 of Schedule 10, paragraph 10 of Schedule 8, and Part V(1) (2) (3) and (17) of Schedule 26, to the Finance Act 1994 (c. 9) , by paragraph 19 of Schedule 20, paragraph 6 of Schedule 21 and Part V(10) of Schedule 41 to the Finance Act 1996 (c. 8) , by section 56 of the Finance Act 1997 (c. 16) , and by Part III(15) of Schedule 20 to the Finance Act 1999.