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APPLICATION FOR ASSISTANCE OF A M KENZIE FRIEND
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                                                                                   PART 8: DETAILED COMMENTS






                         Tax         “Income” Banked (Not including transfers from   Return   Tax Paid
                         Year                        Savings)                       due       Bank

                         April     easyJet     Shares   Cirencester     Total       31        Date
                                                                                       st
                         5th                                                       January
                         2015       74,739.23  47,916.14         0     122,655.37     2016    3,574.76
                         PAYE                                                                April 2016
                         2016       75,066.78   13,468.10               88,534,88     2017     775.00
                         SA 137 ?                                                            Feb 2017
                         2017      955,706.71  4,861,72   53,405.88  1,013,974.31     2018   -2,086.00
                         SA                                                                  April 2017
                         Total   1,105,512.72  66,317.24  53,405.88  1,225,251.68            2,263.76
                    157.  The above table is provisional and subject to audit, but the broad position is believed
                           to be correct, although it does not include PAYE and on account payments.


                    158.  The following narrative is intended to provide audit trail to check the applicable tax
                           rules and liability .
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                         Under normal circumstances personal injury-accident insurance compensation is
                           exempt from Income Tax  and National Insurance.  However, the TR1 tax return
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                           forms and notes - in use at the time - required disclosure of such benefits under the
                           heading of “Other UK income not included on supplementary pages” (Box 17)  140 . A
                           declaration was expected even when no tax was payable;

                         Future loss of earnings for tax purposes is normally based on an Ogden Table type
                           calculation which offsets residual income from future employment;

                         Everything  is based on net amounts. The AIG compensation ignored residual income
                                    141
                           because the incapacity was said to be lifelong and prevented the applicant from ever
                           working again in his “chosen profession” as a pilot ;
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                         Compensation which is paid gross is generally considered by HMRC to be taxable
                           because, by its nature, it exceeds the net financial loss suffered. HMRC will usually
                           accept as exempt from tax the net loss of future earnings if it restores the Claimant to
                           the position he or she was in before the event and no more.

                         HMRC does not knowingly permit Claimants to make tax-free profits from excessive or
                           duplicative insurance claims and the proceeds of crime are always taxable.

                         Specific policy wording usually clarifies where different companies insure the same risk.
                           Most insurers insist - on both application and claim forms – that they are advised of

                    137  Self-assessment?
                    138  It provisional and a work in progress
                    139  The Gourley principle
                    140  as payments from a personal insurance policy for sickness or disability benefits
                    141  but in the tax world there are always exceptions!
                    142  I.e. “own occupation” rather than any
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