Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

869 Penalties, interest and VAT surcharges: non-trades etc. U.K.

(1) This section applies for the purpose of calculating profits or other income charged to income tax.

(2) For this purpose “profits or other income” does not include the profits of—

(a) a trade, profession, or vocation, or

(b) a property business,

but see subsection (6).

(3) No deduction is allowed for any penalty or interest mentioned in the first column of the following table.

(4) This is the table—

Penalty or interest	Description of tax, levy or duty
Interest under any provision of Part 9 of TMA 1970	Income tax, capital gains tax and corporation tax
Interest required to be paid by regulations made under section 71 of FA 2004 (construction industry)
Penalty under any of sections 60 to 70 of VATA 1994	Value added tax
Interest under section 74 [F1 or 85A] of VATA 1994
Penalty under any of sections 8 to 11 of FA 1994	Excise duties
Penalty under any of paragraphs 12 to 19 of Schedule 7 to FA 1994	Insurance premium tax
[F2 Interest under section 60(8) of FA 1994 or paragraph 21 to Schedule 7 to FA 1994]
Penalty under any provision of Part 5 of Schedule 5 to FA 1996	Landfill tax
[F3 Interest under section 56(5) of, or paragraph 26 or 27 of Schedule 5 to, FA 1996]
Penalty under any provision of Schedule 6 to FA 2000	Climate change levy
Interest under any of paragraphs 70, 81 to 85[F4 , 109 and 123(6)] of that Schedule
Penalty under any provision of Part 2 of FA 2001	Aggregates levy
Interest under [F5 section 42(6) of, or] any of paragraphs 5 to 9 of Schedule 5 to, paragraph 6 of Schedule 8 to and paragraph 5 of Schedule 10 [F6 to, FA 2001]
Penalty under section 25 or 26 of FA 2003	Customs, export and import duties
Penalty under any provision of Part 4 of FA 2003	Stamp duty land tax
Interest under any provision of that Part
[F7 Penalty under Schedule 24 to FA 2007	Various taxes and excise duties]
[F8 Penalty under Schedule 41 to FA 2008	Various taxes and excise duties]

(5) No deduction is allowed for any surcharge under section 59 of VATA 1994.

(6) Provision corresponding to that made by this section is made by—

(a) section 54 (in relation to trades, professions and vocations), and

(b) section 272 (in relation to property businesses).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 869(4) table inserted (1.4.2009) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions and Revenue and Customs Appeals Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/56), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 442(2)

F2 Words in s. 869(4) table substituted (1.4.2009) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions and Revenue and Customs Appeals Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/56), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 442(3)

F3 Words in s. 869(4) table substituted (1.4.2009) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions and Revenue and Customs Appeals Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/56), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 442(4)

F4 Words in s. 869(4) table inserted (1.4.2009) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions and Revenue and Customs Appeals Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/56), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 442(5)

F5 Words in s. 869(4) table inserted (1.4.2009) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions and Revenue and Customs Appeals Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/56), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 442(6)(a)

F6 Words in s. 869(4) table substituted (1.4.2009) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions and Revenue and Customs Appeals Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/56), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 442(6)(b)

F7 Words in s. 869(4) table added (1.4.2009) by The Finance Act 2008, Schedule 40 (Appointed Day, Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/571), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 29

F8 Words in s. 869(4) table added (1.4.2010) by The Finance Act 2008 (Penalties for Errors and Failure to Notify etc) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/530), art. 1, Sch. para. 9