Statutory Instruments
2008 No. 706
Income Tax
The Income Tax (Limits for Enterprise Management Incentives) Order 2008
Made
12th March 2008
Laid before the House of Commons
13th March 2008
Coming into force
6th April 2008
The Treasury make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by paragraph 54(1)(b)(i) and (2) of Schedule 5 to the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003( 1 ).
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Income Tax (Limits for Enterprise Management Incentives) Order 2008 and shall come into force on 6th April 2008.
Increase in limits for enterprise management incentives
2. —(1) The EMI code in the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003( 2 ) is amended as follows.
(2) For the sums specified in—
(a) paragraph 5(1)(a) of Schedule 5;
(b) paragraph 6(1) and (3) of that Schedule, and
(c) section 536(1)(e),
the sum of £120,000 is substituted.
Dave Watts
Alan Campbell
Two of the Lords Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Treasury
12th March 2008
“The EMI code” is defined in section 527(3) of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003.