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Lists of employees.
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178.—(1) Every employer, when required to do so by notice from an inspector, shall, within the time limited by the notice, prepare and deliver to the inspector a return containing—
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(a) the names and places of residence of all persons employed by him; and
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(b) the payments, made to those persons in respect of that employment, except persons who are not employed in any other employment and whose remuneration in the employment for the year does not exceed £150:
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Provided that an employer shall not be liable to any penalty for omitting from any such return the name or place of residence of any person employed by him and not employed in any other employment, if it appears to the Revenue Commissioners that such person is entitled to total exemption from tax.
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(2) (a) In this section the references to payments made to persons in respect of their employment and to the remuneration of persons in their employment shall be deemed to include references—
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(i) to any payments made to employed persons in respect of expenses,
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(ii) to any payments made on behalf of employed persons and not repaid, and
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(iii) to any payments made to the employees in a trade or business for services rendered in connection with the trade or business, whether the services were rendered in the course of their employment or not.
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(b) The reference in paragraph (a) (i) to payments made to employed persons in respect of expenses includes a reference to sums put at the disposal of an employed person and paid away by him.
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(3) Where the employer is a body of persons, the secretary of the body, or other officer (by whatever name called) performing the duties of secretary, shall be deemed to be the employer for the purposes of this section, and any director, within the meaning of section 119, of a body corporate (including a company), or person engaged in the management of that body corporate, shall be deemed to be a person employed.
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(4) Where an employer is a body corporate (including a company), that body corporate shall be liable to a penalty for failure to deliver a return in pursuance of this section, as well as the secretary or other officer performing the duties of secretary of the body corporate.
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