The Offshore Funds (Tax) Regulations 2009

Application of transfer of assets abroad provisions U.K.

21.—(1) Chapter 2 of Part 13 of ITA 2007 (transfer of assets abroad) applies in relation to an offshore income gain arising to a person resident or domiciled outside the United Kingdom as if the offshore income gain were income becoming payable to the person.

(2) Income treated as arising under that Chapter by virtue of paragraph (1) is regarded as “foreign” for the purposes of section 726, 730 or 735 M1 of that Act.

(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to an offshore income gain if (and to the extent that) it is treated, by virtue of regulation 24, as arising to a person resident F1 ... in the United Kingdom.

(4) The following provisions apply if regulation 20 applies in relation to an offshore income gain (the “relevant offshore income gain”).

(5) If—

(a) by virtue of regulation 20 an offshore income gain is treated as arising in a tax year to a person resident F2 ... in the United Kingdom, and

(b) it is so treated by reason of the relevant offshore income gain (or part of it),

for that and subsequent tax years paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to the relevant offshore income gain (or that part).

(6) If, by virtue of paragraph (1) as it applies in relation to the relevant offshore income gain, income is treated under Chapter 2 of Part 13 of ITA 2007 as arising in a tax year, the OIG amount in question must be reduced (with effect from the following tax year) by the amount of the income.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 21(3) omitted (6.4.2013) by virtue of The Income Tax (Removal of Ordinary Residence) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/605), regs. 1, 7(3) (with reg. 2(a))

F2 Words in reg. 21(5)(a) omitted (6.4.2013) by virtue of The Income Tax (Removal of Ordinary Residence) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/605), regs. 1, 7(3) (with reg. 2(a))

Marginal Citations

M1 Section 726 was substituted by paragraph 165 of Schedule 7 to the Finance Act 2008; section 730 was substituted by paragraph 167 of Schedule 7 to the Finance Act 2008; and section 735 was substituted by paragraph 169 of Schedule 7 to the Finance Act 2008.