PART XVII TAX AVOIDANCE

CHAPTER II TRANSFERS OF SECURITIES

Transfers with or without accrued interest: charge to tax and reliefs

716 Transfer of unrealised interest.
(1) This section applies where securities are transferred (whether before or after 6th April 1988) with the right to receive interest (“unrealised interest”) payable on them on an interest payment day falling before the settlement day.
Source—1985 Sch.23 15(1)-(4)
(2) Where the settlement day falls within an interest period, section 714 shall (subject to subsection (5) below) apply as if the transferor were entitled under section 713 to a sum on them in the period of an amount equal to the unrealised interest (in addition to any other sum to which he may be treated as so entitled).
(3) Where the settlement day falls after the end of the last interest period in relation to the securities, the transferor shall be treated as receiving on the settlement day annual profits or gains of an amount equal to the unrealised interest; and the profits or gains shall be chargeable to tax under Case VI of Schedule D for the chargeable period in which they are treated as received.
(4) Where the transferee receives the unrealised interest, and but for this subsection it would be taken into account in computing tax charged for the chargeable period in which the interest is received, it shall for the purposes of the Tax Acts be left out of account.
(5) Section 715 shall apply for the purposes of this section as if—
(a) in subsection (1)—
(i) the reference to section 713(2)(a) or (3)(a) were a reference to subsection (2) or (3) above; and
(ii) references to the year of assessment in which the interest period ends were references to the year in which the settlement day falls; and
(b) in subsection (2) the reference to section 713(2)(b) or (3)(b) were a reference to subsection (4) above.
Source—1985 Sch.23 15(5); 1986 Sch.17 2(2)
Paragraph (b) above does not apply where the securities in question were transferred before 19th March 1986.
(6) Where the unrealised interest is payable in a currency other than sterling its amount is for the purposes of this section the sterling equivalent on the settlement day of the amount it would be apart from this subsection; and for this purpose the sterling equivalent is to be calculated by reference to the London closing rate of exchange for the day.
Source—1985 Sch.23 15(8)

Ss. 710-728 modified (27.7.1993) by 1993 c. 34, s. 63(1)(2)
Ss. 710-728 modified (27.7.1993) by 1993 c. 34, s. 63(3)(4)
Ss. 710-728 modified (27.7.1993) by 1993 c. 34, s. 63(8)(10)
Ss. 710-728 modified (27.7.1993 with effect for the year 1992-93 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1993 c. 34, ss. 176(4), 184(3)
Ss. 710-728 modified (with effect in accordance with s. 105(1) of the modifying Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 13 para. 11 (with Sch. 13 para. 16, Sch. 15)
Ss. 711-728 modified (31.7.1998) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), s. 161(2)(a) (with s. 161(7))
S. 716 excluded (24.2.2003) by Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29), s. 458(1), Sch. 10 para. 4; S.I. 2003/120, art. 2, Sch. (with arts. 3, 4 (as amended by S.I. 2003/333, art. 14))