Finance Act 2022

Payments in respect of redundancy

5. (1) The Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 203:

“203. (1) In this section, ‘lump sum’ has the same meaning as in the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 .

(2) Any lump sum payment made under section 19 or 32 of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 shall be exempt from income tax under Schedule E.

(3) Any payment made under section 32A of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 shall be exempt from income tax under Schedule E.”.

(2) Subsection (1), in so far as it relates to subsection (3) of section 203 of the Principal Act, shall be deemed to have come into operation on 19 April 2022.