Finance Act, 1988

Personal reliefs.

3.—(1) Where a deduction falls to be made from the total income of an individual for the year 1988-89 or any subsequent year of assessment in respect of relief to which the individual is entitled under a provision mentioned in column (1) of the Table to this subsection and the amount of the deduction would, but for this section, be an amount specified in column (2) of the said Table, the amount of the deduction shall, in lieu of being the amount specified in the said column (2), be the amount specified in column (3) of the said Table opposite the mention of the amount in the said column (2).

TABLE

Statutory provision

Amount to be deducted from total income for 1987-88

Amount to be deducted from total income for 1988-89 and subsequent years

(1)

(2)

(3)

Income Tax Act, 1967 :

£

£

section 138

(married man)

4,000

4,100

(widowed person)

2,500

2,550

(widow bereaved in the year of assessment)

4,000

4,100

(widower bereaved in the year of assessment)

2,500

4,100

(single person)

2,000

2,050

section 138A

(additional allowance for widows and others in respect of children)

(widowed person)

1,500

1,550

(others)

2,000

2,050

section 138B

(employee allowance)

   700

   800

(2) Section 3 of the Finance Act, 1986 , shall have effect subject to the provisions of this section.

(3) The First Schedule shall have effect for the purpose of supplementing subsection (1).