Part 8Foreign income: special rules
Chapter 1Introduction
829Overview of Part 8
This Part provides for—
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the charging of relevant foreign income of a person to whom section 809B, 809D or 809E of ITA 2007 applies (remittance basis),
b
certain deductions in calculating relevant foreign income where that basis does not apply (see Chapter 3), and
c
relief where a person is prevented from transferring income to the United Kingdom (see Chapter 4).
830Meaning of “relevant foreign income”
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In this Act “relevant foreign income” means income F6which—
a
arises from a source outside the United Kingdom, and
b
is chargeable under any of the provisions specified in subsection (2) (or would be so chargeable if section 832 did not apply to it).
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The provisions are—
a
Chapter 2 of Part 2 (trade profits),
b
Chapter 17 of Part 2 (adjustment income),
c
Chapter 3 of Part 3 (profits of property business),
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e
Chapter 2 of Part 4 (interest),
f
Chapter 4 of Part 4 (dividends from non-UK resident companies),
g
Chapter 7 of Part 4 (purchased life annuity payments),
h
Chapter 8 of Part 4 (profits from deeply discounted securities),
i
Chapter 13 of Part 4 (sales of foreign dividend coupons),
j
section 579 (royalties and other income from intellectual property),
k
Chapter 3 of Part 5 (films and sound recordings: non-trading businesses),
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Chapter 4 of Part 5 (certain telecommunication rights: non-trading income),
m
section 649 (estate income),
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Chapter 7 of Part 5 (annual payments not otherwise charged), and
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Chapter 8 of Part 5 (income not otherwise charged).
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But “relevant foreign income” does not include income chargeable as a result F10of—
a
section 844 (unremittable income: income charged on withdrawal of relief after source ceases), or
b
section 517C or 517E of ITA 2007 (profits on certain disposals concerned with land in the United Kingdom treated as trading profits).
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“Relevant foreign income” does not include income paid in respect of a security, within the meaning of section 138ZB of TCGA 1992, if—
a
the security is treated, for the purposes of that Act, as situated in the United Kingdom as a result of section 138ZB of that Act, and
b
that section applies in respect of the security as a result of an issue of shares in or debentures of a company in exchange for, or in respect of, shares in or debentures of another company that is incorporated, and is resident, in the United Kingdom.
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For the treatment of other income as relevant foreign income, see—
a
section 857(3) (a partner's share of a firm's trading income),
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regulation 19 of the Offshore Funds (Tax) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3001),
b
paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 3 to the Commonwealth Development Corporation Act 1999 (c. 20) (distributions by the Commonwealth Development Corporation),
c
section 575(3) of ITEPA 2003 (taxable pension income: foreign pensions),
d
section 613(4) of that Act (taxable pension income: foreign annuities),
e
section 631(3) of that Act (pre-1973 pensions paid under the Overseas Pensions Act 1973 (c. 21)),
f
section 635(4) of that Act (taxable pension income: foreign voluntary annual payments), F4...
g
section 679(2) of that Act (taxable social security income: foreign benefits).
i
sections 726, 730 and 735 of that Act (transfer of assets abroad: foreign deemed income)F5, and
j
paragraph 46(2) of Schedule 2 to FA 2022 (qualifying asset holding companies).