Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 Explanatory Notes

Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

2005 CHAPTER 5

Commentary on Sections

Part 8: Foreign income: special rules

Chapter 2: Relevant foreign income charged on remittance basis

Section 831: Claims for relevant foreign income to be charged on the remittance basis

3091. This section is based on sections 65 and 68 of ICTA. If a claim is made under this section neither Chapter 3 nor Chapter 4 of this Part applies to the claimant’s income for that year. (Those Chapters deal respectively with relevant foreign income charged on the arising basis (deductions and reliefs) and with unremittable income.)

3092. A claim under this section is for the remittance basis to be applied for a tax year rather than (as in the source legislation) a claim for a purely personal status from which the remittance basis flows for that year.

3093. A claim is made for a particular tax year. The claim is an annual claim. In the source legislation, a claim has to be made to the Board of Inland Revenue. In practice, it is usually made by applying the remittance basis in making the claimant’s self assessment. The section reflects this practice and does not require the claim to be made either to the Board or to the Inland Revenue. (Those terms are defined in section 878(1).) See Change 149 in Annex 1.

3094. Subsections (2) to (4) set out the conditions for a valid claim. In the source legislation condition B has a further requirement, that the claimant is a Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. That requirement is not rewritten. See Change 132 in Annex 1.

3095. Income arising in the Republic of Ireland is never charged on the remittance basis, so such income is excluded from a claim under this section.