PART XII SPECIAL CLASSES OF COMPANIES AND BUSINESSES
CHAPTER III UNIT TRUST SCHEMES, DEALERS IN SECURITIES ETC.
Dealers in securities, banks and insurance businesses
474 Treatment of tax-free income.
1
M1Where a banking business, an insurance business or a business consisting wholly or partly in dealing in securities is carried on in the United Kingdom by a person not resident there, then—
a
in computing for any of the purposes of the Tax Acts the profits arising from, or loss sustained in, the business, and
b
in the case of an insurance business, also in computing the profits or loss from pension business F1 . . . under section 436,
all interest, dividends and other payments whatsoever to which section 48 or 123(4) extends shall be included notwithstanding the exemption from tax conferred by those sections respectively.
In this subsection “securities” includes stocks and shares.
2
Where a banking business, an insurance business or a business consisting wholly or partly in dealing in securities—
a
is carried on in the United Kingdom by a person not ordinarily resident there, and
b
in making any such computation as is referred to in subsection (1) above with respect to that business, any interest on any securities issued by the Treasury is excluded by virtue of a condition of the issue thereof regulating the treatment of the interest on those securities for tax purposes,
then any expenses attributable to the acquisition or holding of, or to any transaction in, the securities (but not including in those expenses any interest on borrowed money), and any profits or losses so attributable, shall also be excluded in making that computation.