Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

F1 Manufactured overseas dividends U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 23A inserted by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 63:1), s. 58, Sch. 13 para.1 (with effect as mentioned in s. 58(3) in relation to payments made on or after such day as may be specified: 26.2.1992 specified for certain purposes by S.I. 1992/173, reg.2; 30.6.1992 specified for certain purposes by S.I. 1992/1346, regs.2, 3, 4; 21.4.1993 specified for certain purposes by S.I. 1993/933, regs.2, 3(b), 4)

F2 4 (1) This paragraph applies in any case where, under a contract or other arrangements for the transfer of overseas securities, one of the parties (the “overseas dividend manufacturer”) is required to pay to the other (“the recipient”) an amount representative of an overseas dividend on the overseas securities; and in this Schedule the “manufactured overseas dividend” means any payment which the overseas dividend manufacturer makes in discharge of that requirement.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) below, where this paragraph applies the gross amount of the manufactured overseas dividend shall be treated for all purposes of the Tax Acts as an annual payment, within section 349, but—

(a) the amount which is to be deducted from that gross amount on account of income tax shall be an amount equal to the relevant withholding tax on that gross amount; and

(b) in the application of sections 338(4)(a) and 350(4) in relation to manufactured overseas dividends the references to Schedule 16 shall be taken as references to dividend manufacturing regulations;

and paragraph (a) above is without prejudice to any further amount required to be deducted under dividend manufacturing regulations by virtue of sub-paragraph (8) below.

(3) If, in a case where this paragraph applies, the overseas dividend manufacturer is not resident in the United Kingdom and the manufactured overseas dividend is paid by him otherwise than in the course of a trade which he carries on through a branch or agency in the United Kingdom, sub-paragraph (2) above shall not apply; but if the manufactured overseas dividend is received by [F3 a United Kingdom recipient, that recipient shall] account for and pay an amount of tax in respect of the manufactured overseas dividend equal to that which the overseas dividend manufacturer would have been required to account for and pay had he been resident in the United Kingdom; and any reference in this Schedule to an amount deducted under sub-paragraph (2) above includes a reference to an amount of tax accounted for and paid under this sub-paragraph.

[F4 (3A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) above a person who receives a manufactured overseas dividend is a United Kingdom recipient if—

(a) he is resident in the United Kingdom; or

(b) he is not so resident but receives that dividend for the purposes of a trade carried on through a branch or agency in the United Kingdom.

(3B) Dividend manufacturing regulations may make provision, in relation to cases falling within sub-paragraph (3) above, for the amount of tax required under that sub-paragraph to be taken to be reduced, to such extent and for such purposes as may be determined under the regulations, by reference to amounts of overseas tax charged on, or in respect of—

(a) the making of the manufactured overseas dividend; or

(b) the overseas dividend of which the manufactured overseas dividend is representative.]

(4) Where a manufactured overseas dividend is paid after deduction of the amount required by sub-paragraph (2) above, or where the amount of tax required under sub-paragraph (3) above in respect of such a dividend has been accounted for and paid, then for all purposes of the Tax Acts as they apply in relation to persons resident in the United Kingdom or to persons not so resident but carrying on business through a branch or agency in the United Kingdom—

(a) the manufactured overseas dividend shall be treated in relation to the recipient, and all persons claiming title through or under him, as if it were an overseas dividend of an amount equal to the gross amount of the manufactured overseas dividend, but paid after the withholding therefrom, on account of overseas tax, of the amount deducted under sub-paragraph (2) above; and

(b) the amount so deducted shall accordingly be treated in relation to the recipient, and all persons claiming title through or under him, as an amount so withheld instead of as an amount on account of income tax.

(5) For the purposes of this paragraph—

(a) “relevant withholding tax”, in relation to the gross amount of a manufactured overseas dividend, means an amount of tax representative of—

(i) the amount (if any) that would have been deducted by way of overseas tax from an overseas dividend on the overseas securities of the same gross amount as the manufactured overseas dividend; and

(ii) the amount of the overseas tax credit (if any) in respect of such an overseas dividend;

(b) the gross amount of a manufactured overseas dividend is an amount equal to the gross amount of that overseas dividend of which the manufactured overseas dividend is representative, as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above; and

(c) the gross amount of an overseas dividend is an amount equal to the aggregate of—

(i) so much of the overseas dividend as remains after the deduction of the overseas tax (if any) chargeable on it;

(ii) the amount of the overseas tax (if any) so deducted; and

(iii) the amount of the overseas tax credit (if any) in respect of the overseas dividend.

(6) Dividend manufacturing regulations may make provision with respect to the rates of relevant withholding tax which are to apply in relation to manufactured overseas dividends in relation to different overseas territories, but in prescribing those rates the Treasury shall have regard to—

(a) the rates at which overseas tax would have fallen to be deducted, and

(b) the rates of overseas tax credits,

in overseas territories, or in the particular overseas territory, in respect of payments of overseas dividends on overseas securities.

(7) Dividend manufacturing regulations may make provision for a person who, in any chargeable period, is an overseas dividend manufacturer to be entitled in prescribed circumstances to set off [F5 in accordance with the regulations and to the prescribed extent, amounts falling within paragraph (a) of sub-paragraph (7AA) below against the sums falling within paragraph (b) of that sub-paragraph, and to account]to the Board for, or as the case may be, claim credit in respect of, the balance.

[F6 (7AA) Those amounts and sums are—

(a) amounts of overseas tax in respect of overseas dividends received by him in that chargeable period, amounts of overseas tax charged on, or in respect of, the making of manufactured overseas dividends so received by him and amounts deducted under sub-paragraph (2) above from any such manufactured overseas dividends; and

(b) the sums due from him on account of the amounts deducted by him under sub-paragraph (2) above from the manufactured overseas dividends paid by him in that chargeable period.]

[F7 (7A) F8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

(8) Dividend manufacturing regulations may also make provision for cases where a manufactured overseas dividend is paid or otherwise dealt with in circumstances such that, had it been an overseas dividend in respect of the overseas securities, it would have been—

[F9 (b) a foreign dividend (as defined by section 18(3D)), or

(c) interest on a quoted Eurobond (as defined by section 124) held in a recognised clearing system,]

and, notwithstanding anything in sub-paragraph (2) or (3) above, any such regulations may provide for deductions of an amount determined by reference to the gross amount of the manufactured overseas dividend to be made from the manufactured overseas dividend on account of income tax similar to the deductions that would, in the case of an overseas dividend, be made under [F10 Chapter VIIA of Part IV and for that Chapter] to apply with prescribed modifications in relation thereto.

[F11 (9) Without prejudice to section 97 of the Finance Act 1996 (manufactured interest), the references in this paragraph to all the purposes of the Tax Acts do not include the purposes of Chapter II of Part IV of that Act (loan relationships).]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 23A inserted by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 63:1), s. 58, Sch. 13 para.1 (with effect as mentioned in s. 58(3) in relation to payments made on or after such day as may be specified: 26.2.1992 specified for certain purposes by S.I. 1992/173, reg.2; 30.6.1992 specified for certain purposes by S.I. 1992/1346, regs.2, 3, 4; 21.4.1993 specified for certain purposes by S.I. 1993/933, regs.2, 3(b), 4)

F3 Words in Sch. 23A para 4(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 159(9) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), s. 159(4)

F4 Sch. 23A para 4(3A)(3B) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 159(9) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), s. 159(5)

F5 Words in Sch. 23A para. 4(7) substituted (29.4.1996) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), s. 159(6)

F6 Sch. 23A para. 4(7AA) inserted (29.4.1996) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), s. 159(6)

F7 Sch. 23A para. 4(7A) inserted (3.5.1994) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), s. 124

F8 Sch. 23A para. 4(7A) repealed (29.4.1996) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 41 Pt. 5(21), Note 2

F9 Sch. 23A para 4(8)(b)(c) substituted for Sch. 23A para. 4(8)(a)-(d) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 32 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 7 para. 28(2) (with Sch. 7 paras. 33-35)

F10 Words in Sch. 23A para. 4(8) substituted (29.4.1996) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 29 para. 7

F11 Sch. 23A para. 4(9) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 105(1) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 14 para. 52(4) (with Sch. 15)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 23A para. 4(1) applied (1.10.1993) by S.I. 1993/2004, reg.2

C2 Sch. 23A para. 4(2) restricted (1.10.1993) by S.I. 1993/2004, reg.5(1)

C3 Sch. 23A para. 4(3) restricted (1.10.1993) by S.I. 1993/2004, reg.7(1) (as amended by S.I. 2011/1787, regs. 1, 7)

Valid from 21/07/2009

4A (1) A reference in paragraph 4(4)(a) or (b) to the relevant amount in relation to an amount deducted under section 922(2) of ITA 2007 is—

(a) where the deduction is made in respect of a manufactured overseas dividend that is treated as paid under paragraph 13(1) of Schedule 13 to FA 2007 (sale and repurchase of securities), to amount A, and

(b) otherwise, to the amount deducted under section 922(2) of ITA 2007.

(2) Amount A is—

(a) in a case to which sub-paragraph (3) applies, the amount deducted under section 922(2) of ITA 2007,

(b) in a case to which sub-paragraph (4) applies—

(i) the amount deducted under section 922(2) of ITA 2007, less

(ii) the excess mentioned in that sub-paragraph, and

(c) in any other case, nil.

(3) This sub-paragraph applies to a case in which—

(a) an amount is actually paid by way of manufactured overseas dividend,

(b) the amount so paid equals the relevant net amount, and

(c) it is reasonable to assume that, in deciding the repurchase price of the securities, no account was taken of the fact that the amount would be so paid.

(4) This sub-paragraph applies to a case in which—

(a) an amount is actually paid by way of manufactured overseas dividend,

(b) the amount so paid exceeds the relevant net amount, and

(c) it is reasonable to assume that, in deciding the repurchase price of the securities, no account was taken of the fact that the amount would be so paid.

(5) In this paragraph “the repurchase price” of the securities means the price at which the payer of the manufactured overseas dividend is entitled or obliged to sell the securities, or similar securities, to the recipient of the manufactured overseas dividend.

(6) In this paragraph “the securities” means the securities in respect of which the overseas dividend of which the manufactured overseas dividend is representative is paid.

(7) In this paragraph “the relevant net amount” means—

(a) the gross amount of the overseas dividend of which the manufactured overseas dividend is representative, less

(b) the amount deducted under section 922(2) of ITA 2007.