SCHEDULE 13Settlements: amendments to ICTA and ITTOIA 2005 etc
Part 1Principal amendments
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(1)
“686AReceipts to be treated as income to which section 686 applies
(1)
Where the trustees of a settlement (other than the trustees of a unit trust scheme)—
(a)
receive or are entitled to a payment of a kind specified in subsection (2), or
(b)
are liable for tax in respect of a gain on a chargeable event of a kind specified in subsection (2),
the payment or gain shall be treated as if it were income to which section 686 applies.
(2)
Those payments and gains are—
(a)
a payment made by a company—
(i)
on the redemption, repayment or purchase of its own shares, or
(ii)
on the purchase of rights to acquire its own shares,
(b)
a gain arising on a chargeable event in respect of which the trustees are liable for tax under section 467 of ITTOIA 2005 (gains on contracts for life insurance, etc), other than a gain to which subsection (7)(a) of that section applies,
(c)
if the trustees are resident in the United Kingdom, a profit on the disposal of a deeply discounted security in respect of which the trustees are liable for tax under section 429 of ITTOIA 2005,
(d)
a sum to which Chapter 4 of Part 3 of ITTOIA 2005 applies,
(e)
a profit on the disposal of a future or option in respect of which the trustees are liable for tax under section 557 of ITTOIA 2005, if none of conditions A to C in section 568 of that Act are met,
(f)
a profit on the disposal of a deposit in respect of which the trustees are liable for tax under section 554 of ITTOIA 2005,
(g)
the proceeds of sale of a foreign dividend coupon in respect of which the trustees are liable for tax under section 573 of ITTOIA 2005,
(h)
a sum which is chargeable to tax under section 68(2) or 71(4) of the Finance Act 1989 (c. 26) (employee share ownership trusts: chargeable events),
(i)
an offshore income gain (within the meaning of section 761 of this Act), and
(j)
a gain on a disposal of land to which section 776 of this Act applies.”
(2)
This paragraph shall have effect in respect of payments made, or gains arising, to the trustees of a settlement on or after 6th April 2006.