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AI Summary of 784. Retirement annuities: relief for premiums.

This transcript outlines the regulatory framework for retirement annuity contracts (RACs) approved by the Revenue Commissioners. It establishes criteria for approval, including stipulations regarding the residency of insurers, restrictions on early payments, and guidelines for lump-sum commutation options. Importantly, it highlights conditions under which individuals may exercise transfer options for accrued rights, ensuring compliance with tax obligations.

Furthermore, it emphasises the Revenue Commissioners' authority to withdraw approval, provide tax treatment for annuity payments, and implement transitional provisions effective from 1 January 2024. Legal practitioners and compliance professionals must remain vigilant regarding these evolving regulatory mandates.

Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 January 2024 - onwards
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784. Retirement annuities: relief for premiums.

(1)

(a) Where an individual, being an individual referred to in paragraph (b), pays a premium or other consideration under an annuity contract for the time being approved by the Revenue Commissioners as being a contract by which the main benefit secured is, or would, but for the exercise of an option by the individual under subsection (2A), be a life annuity for the individual in his or her old age or under a contract for the time being approved under section 785 (in this Chapter referred to as a "qualifying premium"), relief from income tax may be given in respect of the qualifying premium under section 787.

(b) An individual referred to in this paragraph is an individual who is or was (or but for an insufficiency of profits or gains would be or would have been) for any year of assessment chargeable to tax in respect of relevant earnings from any trade, profession, office or employment carried on or held by him or her and who paid a qualifying premium in that year.

(2)

(a) Subject to subsections (2A) and (3) and to section 786, the Revenue Commissioners shall not approve a contract unless it appears to them to satisfy the following conditions -

(i) that it is made by the individual with a person lawfully carrying on the business of granting annuities on human life, and, where that person -