PART IV PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SCHEDULE D CHARGE

Chapter VIIAPaying and collecting agents

118J Prevention of double accounting.

(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.