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Section Sch50-“ 24F — Income Tax Act 2007: Special tax code certificates

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“ 24F Special tax code certificates “ (1) The Commissioner may provide an employee with a special tax code certificate, whether because the employee has 2 or more employments, or is entitled to have a net loss carried forward, or wishes to have a reduction applying to the amount of tax withheld under section 24H(1), or for another reason. “ (2) The special tax code may— “ (a) set out a tax code to apply to a payment of salary or wages to an employee by 1 or more of their employers for a period referred to in the certificate: “ (b) require that no amount of tax is withheld from, or a particular rate of tax applies to, a proportion of a PAYE income payment of the employee, as if it were the whole payment. “ (3) The Commissioner must calculate, for the PAYE income payments and period referred to in the certificate, and set out in the certificate, the amount of tax for the payments or the rate of tax applying to them, having regard to the amount of tax for the payments that would be required under sections RD 9 to RD 11 of the Income Tax Act 2007. “ (4) When an employee provides a special tax code certificate to their employer, the provisions of the certificate override anything in the Income Tax Act 2004 and this Act other than the employee’s duties under sections RA 8, RA 10, and RD 4(2) of the Income Tax Act 2007. “ (5) An employee’s entitlement under subparts MA to MF and MZ of the Income Tax Act 2007 is not taken into account in setting a tax code for a special tax code certificate. “ (6) The Commissioner may cancel a special tax code certificate at any time, and on notification of the cancellation, the employee must return the certificate to the Commissioner within a period of 7 days. “ Compare: 2004 No 35 s NC 14

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