Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1)

PART XII U.K. SPECIAL CLASSES OF COMPANIES AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER III U.K. UNIT TRUST SCHEMES, DEALERS IN SECURITIES ETC.

[F1 Dividend and foreign income distributions U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 468H-468R and cross-headings inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 14 para. 7 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), Sch. 14 para. 2

468J Dividend distributions. U.K.

(1) Subsection (2) below applies where the total amount or a part of the total amount shown in the distribution accounts as available for distribution to unit holders is shown as available for distribution as dividends which are not foreign income dividends.

(2) The Tax Acts shall have effect as if the total amount or, as the case may be, the part were dividends on shares paid on the distribution date by the company referred to in section 468(1) to the unit holders in proportion to their rights.

(3) The trustees of an authorised unit trust may not make an election under section 246A in respect of dividends paid by virtue of this section.

(4) In the following provisions of this Chapter “a dividend distribution” means a dividend treated as paid by virtue of subsection (2) above.]