Part 9Special rules about settlements and trustees
Chapter 1Introduction
462Overview of Part
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This Part sets out special rules about settlements and trustees.
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Chapter 2 contains general provision about settlements and trustees, for example, definitions of expressions relating to settlements.
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Chapter 3 provides for income tax to be charged at the dividend trust rate or at the trust rate on certain amounts included in the net income of the trustees of a settlement.
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Chapter 4 provides—
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for expenses of the trustees of a settlement to be set against the trustees' trust rate income (see section 463(2)), and
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consequentially, for the amount of the trust rate income to be reduced.
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Chapter 5 qualifies section 479 (which is in Chapter 3) in the case of the trustees of an approved share incentive plan.
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Chapter 6 provides that the first slice of the trust rate income of the trustees of a settlement is not to be charged at the dividend trust rate or at the trust rate.
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Chapter 7 deals with the treatment of payments made by the trustees of a settlement in the exercise of a discretion.
This affects the way the trustees and the recipients of such payments are taxed.
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Chapter 8 deals with the treatment of expenses of the trustees of a settlement where income arising to the trustees is, before being distributed, the income of a person other than the trustees themselves.
This affects the way that other person is taxed on that income.
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Chapter 9 deals with unauthorised unit trusts.
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Chapter 10 deals with heritage maintenance settlements.
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See also Part 10 for special rules about charitable trusts.
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See also Chapter 4 of Part 2 of FA 2005 for provision about trusts with vulnerable beneficiaries.