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Part 2U.K.Basic provisions

Chapter 1U.K.Charges to income tax

3Overview of charges to income taxU.K.

(1)Income tax is charged under—

(a)Part 2 of ITEPA 2003 (employment income),

(b)Part 9 of ITEPA 2003 (pension income),

(c)Part 10 of ITEPA 2003 (social security income),

(d)Part 2 of ITTOIA 2005 (trading income),

(e)Part 3 of ITTOIA 2005 (property income),

(f)Part 4 of ITTOIA 2005 (savings and investment income), and

(g)Part 5 of ITTOIA 2005 (miscellaneous income).

(2)Income tax is also charged under other provisions, including—

(a)Chapter 5 of Part 4 of FA 2004 (registered pension schemes: tax charges),

(b)section 7 of F(No.2)A 2005 (social security pension lump sums),

(c)Part 10 of this Act (special rules about charitable trusts etc),

(d)Chapter 2 of Part 12 of this Act (accrued income profits), and

(e)Part 13 of this Act (tax avoidance).

4Income tax an annual taxU.K.

(1)Income tax is charged for a year only if an Act so provides.

(2)A year for which income tax is charged is called a “tax year”.

(3)A tax year begins on 6 April and ends on the following 5 April.

(4)The tax year 2007-08” means the tax year beginning on 6 April 2007 (and any corresponding expression in which two years are similarly mentioned is to be read in the same way).

(5)Every assessment to income tax must be made for a tax year.

(6)Subsection (5) is subject to Chapter 15 of Part 15 (by virtue of which an assessment may relate to a return period).

[F15Income tax and companiesU.K.

Section 3 of CTA 2009 disapplies the provisions of the Income Tax Acts relating to the charge to income tax in relation to income of a company (not accruing to it in a fiduciary or representative capacity) if—

(a)the company is UK resident, or

(b)the company is non-UK resident and the income is within its chargeable profits as defined by section 19 of that Act (profits attributable to its permanent establishment in the United Kingdom).]

Textual Amendments

F1S. 5 substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 1329(1) of the amending Act) by Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4), s. 1329(1), Sch. 1 para. 700 (with Sch. 2 Pts. 1, 2)