Finance Act, 2001

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Chapter 2

Income Tax

Tax credits.

2.—(1) Where an individual is entitled under a provision of the Principal Act mentioned in column (1) of the Table to this subsection to have the income tax to be charged on the individual, other than in accordance with the provisions of section 16(2) of the Principal Act, reduced for the year of assessment 2001 or any subsequent year of assessment and the amount of the reduction would, but for this section, be an amount which is the lesser of—

(a) an appropriate percentage of an amount (in this section referred to as the “standard-rated allowance”) specified in column (2) of that Table, and

(b) the amount which reduces that liability to nil,

the amount of the reduction in accordance with paragraph (a) shall, in lieu of being the standard-rated allowance, be the amount of the tax credit specified in column (3) or column (4), as may be appropriate, of the Table opposite the mention of the amount in column (2).

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(2) Section 7 of the Finance Act, 1999 , and sections 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 and 12 of the Finance Act, 2000 , shall apply subject to the provisions of this section.

(3) Schedule 1 shall have effect for the purposes of supplementing subsection (1).