Part 9Pension income

Chapter 18Exemptions: Non-UK resident taxpayers

651Overseas Pensions Act 1973

1

No liability to income tax arises on a pension which is paid under section 1 of OPA 1973 if the foreign residence condition is met.

2

Subsection (1) applies whether or not the pension is paid out of a fund established under a scheme made under section 1 of OPA 1973.

3

But subsection (1) does not apply to any part of a pension paid because the Pensions (Increase) Acts apply to it.

4

In this section “the Pensions (Increase) Acts” means—

a

the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 (c. 56), and

b

any Act passed after that Act for purposes which correspond to the purposes of that Act.