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PART XVIIU.K. TAX AVOIDANCE

CHAPTER VU.K. OFFSHORE FUNDS

Charge to tax of offshore income gainsU.K.

762 Offshore income gains accruing to persons resident or domiciled abroad.U.K.

M1(1)Section [F113 of the 1992 Act] (chargeable gains accruing to certain non-resident companies) shall have effect in relation to offshore income gains subject to the following modifications—

(a)for any reference to a chargeable gain there shall be substituted a reference to an offshore income gain;

[F2(aa)any reference to anything accruing is to be read as a reference to it arising (and similar references are to be read accordingly);]

(b)for the reference in subsection (7) to capital gains tax there shall be substituted a reference to income tax or corporation tax; and

(c)paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (5) and subsection (8) shall be omitted.

[F3(2)If—

(a)offshore income gains arise to the trustees of a settlement in a tax year, and

(b)section 87 of the 1992 Act (gains of non-resident settlements) applies to the settlement for that year,

the OIG amount for the settlement for that year is the amount of the offshore income gains.

(3)Sections 87, 87A, 87C to 90 and 96 to 98 of, and Schedule 4C to, the 1992 Act apply in relation to OIG amounts as if—

(a)references to section 2(2) amounts (except those in paragraph 7B(2)(b) and (4) of Schedule 4C) were to OIG amounts,

(b)references to chargeable gains (except the one in paragraph 1(5) of Schedule 4C) were to offshore income gains,

(c)references to anything accruing were to it arising (and similar references, except the one in paragraph 1(5) of Schedule 4C, were read accordingly), and

(d)sections 87(4), 88(2) to (5), 89(4) and 97(6) and paragraphs 1(3A), 3 to 7, 8AA, 12 and 13 of Schedule 4C were omitted.

(4)Section 87A of the 1992 Act applies for a tax year by virtue of subsection (3) before it applies for that year otherwise than by virtue of that subsection.

(5)If, by virtue of subsection (1) or (3), offshore income gains are treated as arising to a person, for the purposes of section 761 as it applies in relation to the offshore income gains treat the person as having made the disposal in question.]

(6)To the extent that an offshore income gain is treated, by virtue of subsection (1) or [F4(3)], as having [F5arisen] to any person resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, that gain shall not be deemed to be the income of any individual for the purposes of F6. . . any provision of [F7Chapter 5 of Part 5 of ITTOIA 2005].

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 762(1)-(4) substituted (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 289, 290, Sch. 10 para. 14(48) (with ss. 60, 101(1), 171, 201(3))

F2S. 762(1)(aa) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 98 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 7 para. 93(2)

F3S. 762(2)-(5) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 98 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 7 para. 93(3)

F4Word in s. 762(6) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 98 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 7 para. 93(4)(a)

F5Word in s. 762(6) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 98 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 7 para. 93(4)(b)

F6Words in s. 762(6) omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 98 of the repealing Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 7 para. 93(4)(c)

F7Words in s. 762(6) substituted (6.4.2005 with effect in accordance with s. 883(1) of the amending Act) by Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (c. 5), Sch. 1 para. 309(b) (with Sch. 2)

Marginal Citations

M1Source—1984 s.97