Section 280 — Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003: Transporting belongings

Transporting belongings 280 1 The following benefits are within this section—

a the transportation of domestic belongings from the employee’s former residence to the employee’s new residence, and b the effecting of insurance to cover such transportation.

2 The following expenses are within this section—

a expenses connected with such transportation, and b the costs of any such insurance.

3 In this section— “ domestic belongings ” means belongings of the employee or of members of the employee’s family or household, and “ transportation ” includes— packing and unpacking belongings, temporarily storing them, where there is not a direct move from the former to the new residence, detaching domestic fittings from the former residence, where they are to be taken to the new residence, and attaching domestic fittings to the new residence and adapting them, where they are brought from the former residence.