Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992

87 Attribution of gains to beneficiaries. U.K.

(1) This section applies to a settlement for any year of assessment during which the trustees are at no time resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom F1 ... .

(2) There shall be computed in respect of every year of assessment for which this section applies the amount on which the trustees would have been chargeable to tax under section 2(2) if they had been resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in the year; and that amount, together with the corresponding amount in respect of any earlier such year so far as not already treated under subsection (4) below or section 89(2) as chargeable gains accruing to beneficiaries under the settlement, is in this section and sections 89 and 90 referred to as the trust gains for the year.

(3) Where as regards the same settlement and for the same year of assessment—

(a) chargeable gains, whether of one amount or of 2 or more amounts, are treated as accruing by virtue of section 86(4), and

(b) an amount falls to be computed under subsection (2) above,

the amount so computed shall be treated as [F2 reduced by the tapered section 86(4) amount].

[F3 (3A) In subsection (3) above “the tapered section 86(4) amount” means the amount, or aggregate of the amounts, treated as accruing as mentioned in subsection (3)(a) above, minus the total amount of any taper relief that would be deductible from that amount or aggregate by the trustees of the settlement but for section 86(1)(e)(ii).]

(4) Subject to the following provisions of this section, the trust gains for a year of assessment shall be treated as chargeable gains accruing in that year to beneficiaries of the settlement who receive capital payments from the trustees in that year or have received such payments in any earlier year.

(5) The attribution of chargeable gains to beneficiaries under subsection (4) above shall be made in proportion to, but shall not exceed, the amounts of the capital payments received by them.

(6) A capital payment shall be left out of account for the purposes of subsections (4) and (5) above to the extent that chargeable gains have by reason of the payment been treated as accruing to the recipient in an earlier year.

[F4 (6A) Without prejudice to so much of this section as requires section 2A to be applied in the computation of the amount of the trust gains for any year of assessment, chargeable gains that are treated as accruing to beneficiaries under this section shall not be eligible for taper relief.]

(7) A beneficiary shall not be charged to tax on chargeable gains treated by virtue of subsection (4) above as accruing to him in any year unless he is domiciled in the United Kingdom at some time in that year.

(8) In computing an amount under subsection (2) above in respect of the year 1991-92 or a subsequent year of assessment, the effect of sections 77 to 79 shall be ignored.

(9) For the purposes of this section a settlement arising under a will or intestacy shall be treated as made by the testator or intestate at the time of his death.

(10) Subsection (1) above does not apply in relation to any year beginning before 6th April 1981; and the reference in subsections (4) and (5) to capital payments received by beneficiaries do not include references to any payment received before 10th March 1981 or any payment received on or after that date and before 6th April 1984 so far as it represents a chargeable gain which accrued to the trustees before 6th April 1981.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 87(1) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 130(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), s. 130(1), Sch. 27 Pt. III(30)

F2 Words in s. 87(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 11 paras. 7, 8 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 11 para. 6(2)

F3 S. 87(3A) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 11 paras. 7, 8 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 11 para. 6(3)

F4 S. 87(6A) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 121(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 21 para. 6(3)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 87 modified (31.7.1998) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), s. 130(4)

C2 S. 87(2) modified (31.7.1998) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 23 para. 5(1)

C3 S. 87(3) modified (31.7.1998) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 23 paras. 4(6), 5(2)