Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

468Q Dividend distribution to corporate unit holder. U.K.

(1) Subsection (2) below applies where—

(a) a dividend distribution for a distribution period is made to a unit holder by the trustees of an authorised unit trust; and

(b) on the distribution date for that distribution period the unit holder is within the charge to corporation tax.

(2) For the purpose of computing corporation tax chargeable in the case of the unit holder the unfranked part of the dividend distribution shall be deemed—

(a) to be an annual payment and not a dividend distribution F2 . . . or an interest distribution; and

(b) to have been received by the unit holder after deduction of income tax at the lower rate for the year of assessment in which the distribution date falls, from a corresponding gross amount.

(3) This is how to calculate the unfranked part of the dividend distribution—

Where—

• U = the unfranked part of the dividend distribution to the unit holder;

• A = the amount of the dividend distribution;

• F3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• [F4 C = such amount of the gross income as does not derive from franked investment income, as reduced by an amount equal to the trustees’ net liability to corporation tax in respect of the gross income;]

• [F5 D = the amount of the gross income, as reduced by an amount equal to the trustees’ net liability to corporation tax in respect of the gross income;]

[F6 (3A) Any reference in this section to the trustees’ net liability to corporation tax in respect of the gross income is a reference to the amount of the liability of the trustees of the authorised unit trust to corporation tax in respect of that gross income less the amount (if any) of any reduction of that liability which is given or falls to be given in accordance with any arrangements having effect by virtue of section 788 or by way of a credit under section 790(1).]

(4) F7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5) Where the unit holder is on the distribution date the manager of the scheme, subsection (2) above shall not apply in so far as the rights in respect of which the dividend distribution is made are held by him in the ordinary course of his business as manager of the scheme.

[F8 (5A) Where, in relation to a dividend distribution, any tax is deemed to have been deducted by virtue of the application of subsection (2)(b) above, the amount to which the unit holder is entitled by way of repayment of that tax shall not exceed the amount of the unit holder’s portion of the trustees’ net liability to corporation tax in respect of the gross income.

(5B) For the purposes of subsection (5A) above the unit holder’s portion shall be determined by reference to the proportions in which unit holders have rights in the authorised unit trust in the distribution period in question.

(5C) The trustees of the authorised unit trust shall in the appropriate statement sent to the unit holder under section 234A include a statement showing their net liability to corporation tax in respect of the gross income.]

(6) For the purposes of this section the references to the gross income are references to the gross income entered in the distribution accounts for the purpose of computing the total amount available for distribution to unit holders for the distribution period in question.

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in s. 468Q(2)(a) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 36, Sch. 6 para. 8(8) of the repealing Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), Sch. 6 para. 8(6)(a), Sch. 8 Pt. 2(11), Note

F3 Words in s. 468Q(3) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 36, Sch. 6 para. 8(8) of the repealing Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), Sch. 6 para. 8(6)(b)(ii), Sch. 8 Pt. 2(11), Note

F4 Words in s. 468Q(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 3 para. 27(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 3 para. 27(2)(a)

F5 Words in s. 468Q(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 3 para. 27(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 3 para. 27(2)(b)

F6 S. 468Q(3A) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 3 para. 27(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 3 para. 27(3)

F7 S. 468Q(4) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 36, Sch. 6 para. 8(8) of the repealing Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), Sch. 6 para. 8(6)(c), Sch. 8 Pt. 2(11), Note

F8 S. 468Q(5A)-(5C) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 3 para. 27(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 3 para. 27(4)