Section 459: Transfer of assets abroad
1839.Sections 739 and 740 of ICTA provide rules to counter avoidance of income tax by the transfer of assets abroad. They depend on income being payable to a person resident or domiciled outside the United Kingdom which a person domiciled or resident within the United Kingdom has the power to enjoy. This section provides that profits on a disposal of deeply discounted securities by a non-UK resident or non-UK domiciled person are regarded as income paid to that person for the purpose of those rules. The section is based on paragraph 12 of Schedule 13 to FA 1996.
