EIM26115 - The benefits code: beneficial loans: meaning of by reason of employment: exception where loan made by an individual
Section 174(5)(a) ITEPA 2003
The exception explained in EIM26114 also applies to loans made by a person within the third bullet of EIM26113.
So it will apply where:
- a loan is made by an individual who has a material interest in a close company or in another company or a partnership which controls such a company and
- the loan is made to an employee whose employer is that close company or controls it or is controlled by it and
- the loan was made in the normal course of the lender’s domestic, family or personal relationships.