The Principal Act is, with effect from the passing of this Act, amended, in Chapter 4 of Part 42, by inserting, the following after section 985B (inserted by the Finance Act 2004):
"985C. PAYE: payment by intermediary.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), where any payment of emoluments of an employee is made by an intermediary of the employer, the employer shall be treated, for the purposes of this Chapter and regulations made under this Chapter, as making a payment of such emoluments of an amount equal to the amount referred to in subsection (3).
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the intermediary deducts income tax from the payment to the employee and accounts for it in accordance with this Chapter and regulations made under this Chapter.
(3) The amount referred to in this subsection is -
(a) if the amount of the payment made by the intermediary is an amount to which the recipient is entitled after deduction of any income tax, the aggregate of the amount of that payment and the amount o
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