Finance Act 1968

Foreign trusts U.K.

9 (1) If it is shown to the satisfaction of the Board— U.K.

(a) that any part of the special charge in respect of an individual’s aggregate investment income is directly or indirectly attributable to a foreign trust, and

(b) that neither the individual or his wife nor, if different, the person chargeable, nor the trustee of any intermediate trust which is not a foreign trust, was absolutely entitled, as against the trustees, to the capital of the trust, or to a part of the capital of the trust of an amount or value not less than the amount of the special charge so attributable, and

(c) that the income in question does not arise under a settlement in relation to which the individual or his wife is a settlor under any of the provisions of Part XVIII of the M1 Income Tax Act 1952,

the Board shall relieve all persons of liability to that part of the special charge, by discharge or by repayment, and, as between the person originally chargeable and any person answerable for a trust any amount recovered in respect of that part of the special charge sball be repaid.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph part of the special charge is directly or indirectly attributable to a foreign trust—

(a) if, in accordance with this Schedule, it is attributable to that trust, or

(b) if income of a trust which is not a foreign trust derives from the foreign trust, and part of the special charge would be attributable to the foreign trust if it were not a foreign trust and if an election were made under paragraph 6 of this Schedule.

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph—

(a) a trust is, in relation to a foreign trust, an intermediate trust if any part of the investment income arising under the trust derives, directly or indirectly, from the foreign trust,

(b) where a person has any rights or powers which could be exercised so as to make him absolutely entitled, as against the trustees, to the capital of the trust or any part of it, he shall be treated as absolutely entitled, as against the trustees, to the capital or that part of it.

Marginal Citations

M1 1952 c. 10.