Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12)

[F1 Part 7A U.K. UK representatives of non-UK residents

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 7A inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 381(1) of the amending Act) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), s. 381(1), Sch. 6 Pt. 2 (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22)

Chapter 2 U.K. Capital gains tax obligations and liabilities imposed on UK representatives

271F Obligations and liabilities of UK representative U.K.

(1) The obligations and liabilities of a non-UK resident are to be treated, for the purposes of the enactments to which this Chapter applies, as if they were also the obligations and liabilities of the UK representative of the non-UK resident.

(2) Subsection (3) applies if—

(a) the UK representative of a non-UK resident discharges an obligation or liability imposed by this section that corresponds to one to which the non-UK resident is subject, or

(b) a non-UK resident discharges an obligation or liability that corresponds to one to which the non-UK resident's UK representative is subject by virtue of this section.

(3) The corresponding obligation or liability—

(a) of the non-UK resident (in a case within subsection (2)(a)), or

(b) of the UK representative (in a case within subsection (2)(b)),

is discharged.

(4) A non-UK resident is bound, as if they were the non-UK resident's own, by acts or omissions of the non-UK resident's UK representative in the discharge of the obligations and liabilities imposed on the representative by this section.

(5) This section is subject to sections 271G and 271H.]