The Overseas Insurers (Tax Representatives) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 3272

INCOME TAX

The Overseas Insurers (Tax Representatives) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Made

10th December 2004

Laid before the House of Commons

10th December 2004

Coming into force

31st December 2004

The Commissioners of Inland Revenue, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 552A of Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988(1), make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Overseas Insurers (Tax Representatives) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 31st December 2004.

Amendment of the Overseas Insurers (Tax Representatives) Regulations 1999

2.—(1) The Overseas Insurers (Tax Representatives) Regulations 1999(2) (“the Regulations”) are amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 10(f) of the Schedule to the Regulations after “basic” insert “or lower”.

David Varney

Helen Ghosh

Two of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue

10th December 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Overseas Insurers (Tax Representatives) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/881) as a consequence of the change made to the rate of corporation tax chargeable on the policyholder’s share of profits of life assurance business made by paragraph 13(2) of Schedule 33 to the Finance Act 2003.

Regulation 1 provides for the citation and commencement of the Regulations.

Regulation 2 amends paragraph 10(f) of the Schedule to the 1999 Regulations to include information about whether the policy holder is to be treated as having paid income tax at the lower rate on the amount of any gain which is notifiable to the Inland Revenue in accordance with that paragraph.

These Regulations do not impose any new costs on business.

(1)

1988 c. 1. Section 552A was inserted by section 87 of the Finance Act 1998 (c. 36).

(2)

S.I. 1999/881: there are amendments which are not relevant for present purposes.