Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

786 Transactions associated with loans or credit. U.K.

M1 (1) This section applies as respects any transaction effected with reference to the lending of money or the giving of credit, or the varying of the terms on which money is lent or credit is given, or which is effected with a view to enabling or facilitating any such arrangement concerning the lending of money or the giving of credit.

(2) Subsection (1) above has effect whether the transaction is effected between the lender or creditor and the borrower or debtor, or between either of them and a person connected with the other or between a person connected with one and a person connected with the other.

(3) If the transaction provides for the payment of any [F1 relevant annual payment], the payment shall be treated for all the purposes of the Tax Acts as if it were a payment of annual interest.

[F2 (3A) In subsection (3) “relevant annual payment” means a payment which is not interest but is—

(a) an annuity or other annual payment falling within Part 5 of ITTOIA 2005 and chargeable to income tax otherwise than as relevant foreign income; or

(b) an annuity or other annual payment chargeable to corporation tax under Case III of Schedule D.]

(4) F3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5) If under the transaction a person assigns, surrenders or otherwise agrees to waive or forego income arising from any property (without a sale or transfer of the property) then, without prejudice to the liability of any other person, [F4 he shall be chargeable—

(a) to income tax, or

(b) to corporation tax under Case VI of Schedule D,

on a sum] equal to the amount of income assigned, surrendered, waived or foregone.

[F5 (5ZA) But subsection (5) above does not apply if the person mentioned in that subsection is, as a result of section 774B or 774D (structured finance arrangements), chargeable to tax on the amount of income assigned, surrendered, waived or forgone.]

[F6 (5A) Income tax charged by virtue of subsection (5)(a) above shall be charged on the full amount of the income assigned, surrendered, waived or forgone in the year of assessment.]

(6) If credit is given for the purchase price of any property, and the rights attaching to the property are such that, during the subsistence of the debt, the purchaser’s rights to income from the property are suspended or restricted, he shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (5) above as if he had surrendered a right to income of an amount equivalent to the income which he has in effect foregone by obtaining the credit.

(7) The amount of any income payable subject to deduction of income tax shall be taken for the purposes of subsection (5) above as the amount before deduction of tax.

(8) References in this section to connected persons shall be construed in accordance with section 839.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 786(3) 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. 320(2) (with Sch. 2)

F2 S. 786(3A) inserted (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. 320(3) (with Sch. 2)

F3 S. 786(4) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 159(1) of the repealing Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), s. 159(1), Sch. 41 Pt. 5(21), Note 1; S.I. 1996/2646, art. 2

F4 Words in s. 786(5) 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. 320(4) (with Sch. 2)

F5 S. 786(5ZA) inserted (19.7.2006) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), Sch. 6 para. 8(2)

F6 S. 786(5A) inserted (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. 320(5) (with Sch. 2)

Marginal Citations

M1 Source—1970 s.496