Finance Act 1995

125 Non-resident partners

(1) The provisions of the Taxes Act 1988 to which sections 215 and 216 of the [1994 c. 9.] Finance Act 1994 (partnerships and change of ownership of trade etc.) relate shall have effect as respects the year 1995-96 and subsequent years of assessment as if subsection (5)(b) of section 215 (amendments not to apply until the year 1997-98 to partnerships controlled abroad) were omitted; and the [1994 c. 9.] Taxes Act 1988 shall have effect—

(a) as respects the year 1997-98 and subsequent years of assessment, and

(b) in its application with the amendments made by those sections to partnerships whose trades, professions or businesses were set up and commenced on or after 6th April 1994, as respects the years 1995-96 and 1996-97,

with the further amendments specified in the following provisions of this section.

(2) For subsections (1) to (3) of section 112 (partnerships controlled abroad) there shall be substituted the following subsections—

“(1) So long as a trade, profession or business is carried on by persons in partnership and any of those persons is not resident in the United Kingdom, section 111 shall have effect for the purposes of income tax in relation to the partner who is not so resident as if—

(a) the reference in subsection (2)(b) to an individual resident in the United Kingdom were a reference to an individual who is not so resident; and

(b) in subsection (4)(a), after “carried on” there were inserted “in the United Kingdom”.

(1A) Where—

(a) any persons are carrying on a trade, profession or business in partnership,

(b) the trade, profession or business is carried on wholly or partly outside the United Kingdom,

(c) the control and management of the trade, profession or business is situated outside the United Kingdom, and

(d) any of the partners who is an individual resident in the United Kingdom satisfies the Board that he is not domiciled in the United Kingdom or that, being a Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, he is not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom,

section 111 shall have effect in accordance with subsection (1) above as if that partner were not resident in the United Kingdom and, in addition (as respects that partner as an individual who is in fact resident in the United Kingdom), his interest as a partner, so far as it entitles him to a share of any profits or gains arising from the carrying on of the trade, profession or business otherwise than within the United Kingdom, shall be treated for the purposes of Case V of Schedule D as if it were a possession outside the United Kingdom.

(1B) Where any persons are carrying on a trade or profession in partnership, the trade or profession is carried on wholly or partly outside the United Kingdom and an individual who is one of the partners changes his residence (within the meaning of section 110A), it shall be assumed for income tax purposes—

(a) that that individual ceased to be a partner at the time of the change and became one again immediately afterwards; and

(b) in relation to matters arising after the change, that the time when he became a partner is the time immediately after the change;

but nothing in this subsection shall, in relation to that individual, prevent any portion of a loss sustained before the change from being carried forward under section 385 and set against profits or gains arising or accruing after the change.”

(3) In that section—

(a) in subsection (4)(a), for “or is deemed to reside outside the United Kingdom” there shall be substituted “outside the United Kingdom or which carries on any trade, profession or business the control and management of which is situated outside the United Kingdom”; and

(b) in subsection (6), for “this section” there shall be substituted “subsections (4) and (5) above”.

(4) In section 114(1) (partnerships including companies), after the word “company”, in the second place where it occurs, there shall be inserted “and, subject to section 115(4), as if that company were resident in the United Kingdom”.

(5) In section 115 (provisions supplementary to section 114), for subsections (4) and (5) there shall be substituted the following subsections—

“(4) So long as a trade, profession or business is carried on by persons in partnership and any of those persons is a company which is not resident in the United Kingdom, section 114 shall have effect in relation to that company as if—

(a) the reference in subsection (1) to a company resident in the United Kingdom were a reference to a company that is not so resident; and

(b) in subsection (2), after “carried on” there were inserted “in the United Kingdom through a branch or agency”.

(5) Where the partners in a partnership include a company, subsections (4) and (5) of section 112 shall apply for the purposes of corporation tax as well as for the purposes of income tax, and section 114 shall have effect accordingly.”