The Pensions Schemes (Taxable Property Provisions) Regulations 2006

Scheme chargeable payment on income and gains from non-U.K. taxable property

10.—(1) This regulation applies to a registered pension scheme which—

(a) is for the time being established in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom, and

(b) falls within the circumstances mentioned in section 273ZA(1)(a) and (c).

(2) Liability to pay the scheme sanction charge so far as relating to a scheme chargeable payment treated as made by the pension scheme—

(a) under section 185A(1) (income from taxable property) by virtue of the pension scheme holding an interest in the property, or

(b) under section 185F(2) (gains from taxable property) by virtue of a gain treated as accruing to the pension scheme in respect of an interest in the property,

(“the property enjoyment scheme sanction charge”) shall be determined under this regulation and not under section 239 (see section 239(6)(3)).

(3) Any member of the pension scheme resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, for the purposes of whose arrangement the interest in taxable property referred to in section 273ZA(1)(a) is held, is liable to pay the property enjoyment scheme sanction charge, subject to paragraphs (4) to (6).

(4) Where the interest in taxable property is held by the pension scheme for the purposes of more than one arrangement, the property enjoyment scheme sanction charge shall be apportioned between the members whose arrangements they are, on a just and reasonable basis.

(5) A member shall be liable to the property enjoyment scheme sanction charge (so far as relating to a scheme chargeable payment treated as made under section 185F) as if any scheme chargeable payment mentioned in Condition 2 were treated as made in the renewed residence period, if the following conditions apply, subject to paragraph (6).

• Condition 1

  The member has, for four out of the seven tax years immediately preceding the tax year in which the time of departure falls (see Condition 4), been resident in the United Kingdom during any part of the year, or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom during the year (“the original residence period”).

• Condition 2

  A scheme chargeable payment would otherwise be treated as made under section 185F, in any part of a tax year or tax year—

  (a)

  later than the time of departure, and

  (b)

  during which the member is resident outside the United Kingdom, and ordinarily resident outside the United Kingdom (“the non-resident period”).

• Condition 3

  There is a later part of a tax year, or tax year, during which he becomes resident in the United Kingdom or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom (“the renewed residence period”).

• Condition 4

  There are fewer than five tax years falling between—

  (a)

  the time after the original residence period, when he ceased to be resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom (“the time of departure”), and

  (b)

  the renewed residence period.

(6) Where—

(a) the member is resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom during only part of a tax year, and for a later part of that tax year is not so resident or ordinarily resident, and

(b) a gain or loss is treated as accruing to the pension scheme under section 185F(3) at a time during that year when the member is so resident or ordinarily resident,

any such gain (in so far as it exceeds any such loss) shall be treated as giving rise to a separate scheme chargeable payment under section 185F made by the scheme as at that time, and liability to the scheme sanction charge on that payment shall be determined under paragraph (3), not (5).

(7) Where paragraph (5) applies, nothing in any enactment imposing any limit on the time within which an assessment to tax may be made shall prevent an assessment to the property enjoyment scheme sanction charge from being made on the member at any time before the end of two years after the 31st January next following the tax year in which the renewed residence period falls.

(1)

Section 185A was inserted by paragraph 6 of Schedule 21 to the Finance Act 2006.

(2)

Section 185F was inserted by paragraph 6 of Schedule 21 to the Finance Act 2006.

(3)

Section 239(6) was inserted by paragraph 8 of Schedule 21 to the Finance Act 2006.