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Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 14 Ch. 2C inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 381(1) of the amending Act) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), s. 381(1), Sch. 6 para. 18 (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22)
(1)This Chapter applies to the enactments relating to income tax so far as they make provision for or in connection with the assessment, collection and recovery of tax, or of interest on tax.
(2)Those enactments have effect in accordance with section 835U in relation to amounts in respect of which a branch or agency is to be treated as the UK representative of a non-UK resident under Chapter 2B.
(3)In this section “enactment” includes an enactment contained in subordinate legislation within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978.]
(1)The obligations and liabilities of a non-UK resident are to be treated, for the purposes of the enactments to which this Chapter applies, as if they were also the obligations and liabilities of the UK representative of the non-UK resident.
(2)Subsection (3) applies if—
(a)the UK representative of a non-UK resident discharges an obligation or liability imposed by this section that corresponds to one to which the non-UK resident is subject, or
(b)a non-UK resident discharges an obligation or liability that corresponds to one to which the non-UK resident's UK representative is subject by virtue of this section.
(3)The corresponding obligation or liability—
(a)of the non-UK resident (in a case within subsection (2)(a)), or
(b)of the UK representative (in a case within subsection (2)(b)),
is discharged.
(4)A non-UK resident is bound, as if they were the non-UK resident's own, by acts or omissions of the non-UK resident's UK representative in the discharge of the obligations and liabilities imposed on the representative by this section.
(5)This section is subject to sections 835V and 835W.]
Textual Amendments
F2S. 835U inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 381(1) of the amending Act) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), s. 381(1), Sch. 6 para. 19 (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22)
(1)An obligation or liability attaching to a non-UK resident (“X”) by reason of a notice or other document having been given or served on X does not also attach to the UK representative of X by virtue of section 835U unless the notice or other document (or a copy of it) has been given to or served on the representative.
(2)An obligation or liability attaching to X by reason of a request or demand having been received by X does not also attach to the UK representative of X by virtue of section 835U unless the representative has been notified of the request or demand.
(3)Subsection (4) applies to obligations relating to the provision of information that are imposed on the UK representative of X by section 835U in a case where the representative is X's independent agent.
(4)The obligations do not require the UK representative to do anything except so far as it is practicable for the representative to do so.
(5)For this purpose, the representative must act to the best of the representative's knowledge and belief after taking all reasonable steps to obtain the necessary information.
(6)An obligation of X to provide information is not discharged by virtue of section 835U in a case where the UK representative of X has discharged the obligation only so far as required by subsection (4) of this section.
(7)X is not bound by virtue of section 835U by mistakes in information provided by the UK representative of X in discharging, so far as required under subsection (4) of this section, an obligation imposed on the representative by section 835U unless—
(a)the mistake is the result of an act or omission of X, or
(b)the mistake is one to which X consented or in which X connived.
(8)In this section “information” includes anything contained in a return, self-assessment, account, statement or report required to be provided to the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs or to any officer of Revenue and Customs.]
Textual Amendments
F3S. 835V inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 381(1) of the amending Act) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), s. 381(1), Sch. 6 para. 20 (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22)
(1)A person is not by virtue of section 835U liable to be proceeded against for a criminal offence unless the person—
(a)committed the offence, or
(b)consented to or connived in its commission.
(2)An independent agent of a non-UK resident is not by virtue of section 835U liable to any civil penalty or surcharge in respect of an act or omission if conditions A and B are met.
(3)Condition A is that the act or omission is not—
(a)an act or omission of the independent agent, or
(b)an act or omission to which the agent consented or in which the agent connived.
(4)Condition B is that the independent agent is able to show that the amount of the penalty or surcharge will not be recoverable out of the sums mentioned in section 835X(3) (after being indemnified for any other liabilities under section 835X).]
Textual Amendments
F4S. 835W inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 381(1) of the amending Act) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), s. 381(1), Sch. 6 para. 21 (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22)
(1)An independent agent of a non-UK resident is entitled to be indemnified for the amount of any liability of the non-UK resident which the agent has discharged by virtue of section 835U.
(2)An independent agent of a non-UK resident is entitled to retain, from the sums mentioned in subsection (3), amounts sufficient to meet any liabilities which by virtue of section 835U the agent has discharged or to which the agent is subject.
(3)The sums are those which—
(a)(ignoring subsection (2)) are due from the independent agent to the non-UK resident, or
(b)are received by the independent agent on behalf of the non-UK resident.]
Textual Amendments
F5S. 835X inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 381(1) of the amending Act) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), s. 381(1), Sch. 6 para. 22 (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22)
(1)In this Chapter “independent agent”, in relation to a non-UK resident (“X”), means a person who is the UK representative of X in respect of any agency in which the person is acting on behalf of X in an independent capacity.
(2)For this purpose a person does not act in an independent capacity on behalf of X unless the relationship between them, having regard to its legal, financial and commercial characteristics, is a relationship between persons carrying on independent businesses dealing with each other at arm's length.]
Textual Amendments
F6S. 835Y inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 381(1) of the amending Act) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), s. 381(1), Sch. 6 para. 23 (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22)
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