Income Tax Act 2007

886 Interest paid by recognised clearing houses etc U.K.

(1) The duty to deduct a sum representing income tax under section 874 does not apply to a payment of interest made by a [F1 relevant entity] if—

(a) the [F2 relevant entity] is carrying on business as the provider of a central counterparty clearing service, and

(b) the interest is paid in the ordinary course of that business, on margin or other collateral deposited with it by users of the service.

(2) The duty to deduct a sum representing income tax under section 874 does not apply to interest treated by virtue of section 607 (treatment of price differences under repos)[F3 , or paragraph 5 of Schedule 13 to FA 2007 (relief for borrower for finance charges in case of debtor repos and debtor quasi-repos),] as paid by [F4 a relevant entity] in respect of contracts made by it as the provider of a central counterparty clearing service.

(3) In this section—

• “central counterparty clearing service” means the service provided by [F5 a relevant entity] to the parties to a transaction where there are contracts between each of the parties and [F5 the relevant entity] (in place of, or as an alternative to, a contract directly between the parties), and

• [F6 “relevant entity”, means any of the following (as defined for the purposes of FISMA 2000 by section 285 of that Act)—

  (a)

  a recognised clearing house;

  (b)

  a recognised investment exchange;

  (c)

  an EEA central counterparty;

  (d)

  a third country central counterparty.]

• F7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 886(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Over the Counter Derivatives, Central Counterparties and Trade Repositories) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/504), regs. 1(2), 24(2)(a)(i) (with regs. 52-58)

F2 Words in s. 886(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Over the Counter Derivatives, Central Counterparties and Trade Repositories) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/504), regs. 1(2), 24(2)(a)(ii) (with regs. 52-58)

F3 Words in s. 886(2) inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 3 of the commencing S.I.) by Finance Act 2007 (c. 11), s. 47(4), Sch. 14 para. 24; S.I. 2007/2483, art. 3

F4 Words in s. 886(2) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Over the Counter Derivatives, Central Counterparties and Trade Repositories) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/504), regs. 1(2), 24(2)(b) (with regs. 52-58)

F5 Words in s. 886(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Over the Counter Derivatives, Central Counterparties and Trade Repositories) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/504), regs. 1(2), 24(2)(c)(i) (with regs. 52-58)

F6 Words in s. 886(3) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Over the Counter Derivatives, Central Counterparties and Trade Repositories) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/504), regs. 1(2), 24(2)(c)(iii) (with regs. 52-58)

F7 Words in s. 886(3) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Over the Counter Derivatives, Central Counterparties and Trade Repositories) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/504), regs. 1(2), 24(2)(c)(ii) (with regs. 52-58)