Income Tax Act 2007

Introduction

518 Overview of Part

(1) This Part makes provision about some gifts and payments made to charitable trusts, including provision imposing charges to income tax and conferring exemptions from those charges (see sections 520 to 523).

(2) This Part also provides for some of the income of charitable trusts and others to be exempt from charges to income tax (see sections 524 to 537).

(3) In the provisions of this Part containing exemptions, references to total income of a charitable trust are to the total income of the trustees of the charitable trust concerned.

(4) See section 538 for provision about making claims for the exemptions under this Part.

(5) In the case of a charitable trust which has a non-exempt amount for a tax year (see section 540), the exemptions under this Part are subject to restrictions (see section 539).

(6) The non-exempt amount for a tax year depends on the charitable trust’s attributable income and gains for the tax year and its non-charitable expenditure for the tax year (see sections 540 and 543 to 564).

519 Meaning of “charitable trust”

In this Part “charitable trust” means a trust established for charitable purposes only.