Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1)

PART IV U.K. PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SCHEDULE D CHARGE

Valid from 29/04/1996

Chapter VIIA U.K. Paying and collecting agents

118J Prevention of double accounting. U.K.

(1) A relevant dividend the payment of which is a chargeable payment shall not be a chargeable receipt for the purpose of this Chapter.

(2) Subsection (1) above does not prevent the proceeds of sale or other realisation of a coupon from being a chargeable receipt.

(3) The Board may make regulations—

(a) for preventing more than one collecting agent from being liable to account for tax on the same dividend; or

(b) which provide that—

(i) where more than one person is a collecting agent in relation to a dividend, those persons may agree between themselves which one of their number shall be treated as the collecting agent in relation to that dividend; and

(ii) the person so identified shall for all the purposes of this Chapter be treated as the sole collecting agent in relation to that dividend.