Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

466 Person liable: personal representatives

(1) Personal representatives are liable for tax under this Chapter if the rights under the policy or contract are held by them and the condition in subsection (2) is met (and accordingly the gain is treated for income tax purposes as income of the personal representatives in that capacity).

(2) The condition is that if an individual were liable for tax on a gain in respect of the policy or contract, section 530(1) (individual treated as having paid tax at the lower rate) would be disapplied as a result of—

(a) section 531(1) (exceptions from section 530 for policies and contracts specified in section 531(3)), or

(b) paragraph 109(2) of Schedule 2 (contracts in accounting periods beginning before 1st January 1992).

(3) For cases where the condition in subsection (2) is not met, see section 664 of this Act and section 701(8) of ICTA (under which the gain is treated as part of the aggregate income of the estate for the purposes of Chapter 6 of Part 5 of this Act and Part 16 of ICTA respectively).