Finance Act 1959

28 Pension annuity business transacted in Republic of Ireland

(1) Where an assurance company having its head office in the United Kingdom carries on business in the Republic of Ireland, and under provisions of the law of that country corresponding with section twenty-four of the Finance Act, 1956, exemption from income tax is allowable in respect of income from investments and deposits referable to pension annuity business, section four hundred and twenty-nine of the Income Tax Act, 1952 (under which income from investments of the foreign life assurance fund of an assurance company is treated for income tax purposes as if the company were not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom) shall apply in relation to the income as if paragraph 3 of Part III of the Eighteenth Schedule to that Act (which excludes from foreign life assurance business any business transacted in the Republic of Ireland) did not have effect.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 2 of Part III of the said Eighteenth Schedule (which charges tax under Case IV or Case V of Schedule D, on profits or gains arising in the Republic of Ireland, on the full amount of the income arising in the year of assessment, whether remitted to the United Kingdom or not) shall have effect subject to the foregoing subsection.