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(1)The charge under this section applies for the purpose of preventing the avoiding of liability to income tax by individuals who are ordinarily UK resident by means of relevant transfers.
(2)Income tax is charged on income treated as arising to such an individual under section 728 (individuals receiving capital sums as a result of relevant transactions).
(3)Tax is charged under this section on the amount of income treated as arising in the tax year.
[F1(3A)But see section 730 (non-UK domiciled individuals to whom remittance basis applies).]
(4)The person liable for any tax charged under this section is the individual to whom the income is treated as arising.
(5)For exemptions from the charge under this section, see sections 736 to 742 (exemptions where no tax avoidance purpose or genuine commercial transaction).
(6)For rules about the availability of deductions and reliefs where income is charged under this section, see section 746 (deductions and reliefs where individual charged under section 720 or this section).
Textual Amendments
F1S. 727(3A) inserted (21.7.2008 with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 170 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 7 para. 166
(1)Income is treated as arising to such an individual as is referred to in section 727(1) in a tax year for income tax purposes if—
(a)income has become the income of a person abroad as a result of—
(i)a relevant transfer,
(ii)one or more associated operations, or
(iii)a relevant transfer and one or more associated operations, and
(b)the capital receipt conditions are met in respect of the individual in the tax year (see section 729).
(2)Section 725 (reduction in amount charged where controlled foreign company involved) applies for determining the amount of income treated as arising under subsection (1) as it applies for determining the amount so treated under section 721(1).
(3)It does not matter for the purposes of this section—
(a)whether the income would be chargeable to income tax apart from section 727,
(b)whether the individual is ordinarily UK resident at the time when the relevant transfer abroad is made, or
(c)whether the avoiding of liability to income tax is a purpose for which that transfer is effected.
(1)For the purposes of section 728(1), the capital receipt conditions are met in respect of the individual in a tax year (“the relevant year”) if—
(a)either—
(i)in the relevant year the individual receives or is entitled to receive any capital sum, whether before or after the relevant transfer, or
(ii)in any earlier tax year the individual has received any capital sum, whether before or after the relevant transfer, and
(b)the payment of that sum is (or, in the case of an entitlement, would be) in any way connected with any relevant transaction.
(2)But subsection (1)(a)(ii) does not apply merely because of the receipt of a sum by way of loan if the loan is wholly repaid before the relevant year begins.
(3)In subsection (1) “capital sum” means—
(a)any sum paid or payable by way of loan or repayment of a loan, and
(b)any other sum paid or payable—
(i)otherwise than as income, and
(ii)not for full consideration in money or money's worth.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (1), a sum is treated as a capital sum which the individual (“A”) receives or is entitled to receive if another person receives or is entitled to receive it—
(a)at A's direction, or
(b)as a result of the assignment by A of A's right to receive it.
(1)This section applies in relation to income treated under section 728 as arising to an individual in a tax year (“the deemed income”) if—
(a)section 809B, 809D or 809E (remittance basis) applies to the individual for the year, and
(b)the individual is not domiciled in the United Kingdom in the year.
(2)For the purposes of this section the deemed income is “foreign” if (and to the extent that) the income mentioned in section 728(1)(a) would be relevant foreign income if it were the individual's.
(3)Treat the foreign deemed income as relevant foreign income of the individual.
(4)For the purposes of Chapter A1 of Part 14 (remittance basis) treat so much of the income within section 728(1)(a) as would be relevant foreign income if it were the individual's as deriving from the foreign deemed income.]
Textual Amendments
F2S. 730 substituted (21.7.2008 with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 170 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 7 para. 167
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