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Finance Act 1991 (c. 31)(The document as of February, 2008) Page 14 Pages: P.1 | P.2 | P.3 | P.4 | P.5 | P.6 | P.7 | P.8 | P.9 | P.10 | P.11 | P.12 | P.13 | P.14 SCHEDULE 17 Settlements: BeneficiariesIntroduction1 In this Schedule-- (a) references to sections are to sections of the [1981 c. 35.] Finance Act 1981 (provisions about gains of non-resident settlements); (b) references to trust gains for a year shall be construed in accordance with section 80; (c) "capital payment" has the same meaning as in sections 80 to 82A. Qualifying amounts2 (1) This paragraph applies for the purposes of this Schedule. (2) If section 80 applies to a settlement for the year 1990-91 the settlement shall have a qualifying amount for the year, and the amount shall be the amount constituting the trust gains for the year less so much of them as are by virtue of section 80 treated as chargeable gains accruing in that year to beneficiaries. (3) If section 80 applies to a settlement for the year 1991-92 or a subsequent year of assessment the settlement shall have a qualifying amount for the year, and the amount shall be the amount computed for the settlement in respect of the year concerned under section 80(2). (4) Sub-paragraph (5) below applies where-- (a) there is a period (a non-resident period) of one or more years of assessment for each of which section 80 applies to a settlement and each of which falls before the year 1990-91, (b) section 80 does not apply to the settlement for the year 1990-91, and (c) there are trust gains for the last year of the non-resident period which have not (or have not wholly) been treated by virtue of section 80 or section 81(2) as chargeable gains accruing to beneficiaries before the year 1990-91. (5) In such a case the settlement shall have a qualifying amount for the year 1990-91, and the amount shall be the amount constituting the trust gains mentioned in sub-paragraph (4)(c) above (or the outstanding part of them) less so much of them as are by virtue of section 81(2) treated as chargeable gains accruing in that year to beneficiaries. Matching capital payments3 (1) This paragraph applies where-- (a) capital payments are made by the trustees of a settlement on or after 6th April 1991, and (b) the payments are made in a year or years of assessment for which section 80 applies to the settlement or in circumstances where section 81(2) treats chargeable gains as accruing in respect of the payments. (2) For the purposes of this Schedule the payments shall be matched with qualifying amounts of the settlement for the year 1990-91 and subsequent years of assessment (so far as the amounts are not already matched with payments by virtue of this paragraph). (3) In applying this paragraph-- (a) earlier payments shall be matched with earlier amounts; (b) payments shall be carried forward to be matched with future amounts (so far as not matched with past amounts); (c) a payment which is less than an unmatched amount (or part) shall be matched to the extent of the payment; (d) a payment which is more than an unmatched amount (or part) shall be matched, as to the excess, with other unmatched amounts. (4) Where part only of a capital payment is taxable, the part which is not taxable shall not fall to be matched until taxable parts of other capital payments (if any) made in the same year of assessment have been matched; and the preceding provisions of this paragraph shall have effect accordingly. (5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (4) above a part of a capital payment is taxable if the part results in chargeable gains accruing under section 80 or 81(2). Increased tax: the main rule4 (1) This paragraph applies where-- (a) a capital payment is made by the trustees of a settlement on or after 6th April 1992, (b) the payment is made in a year of assessment for which section 80 applies to the settlement or in circumstances where section 81(2) treats chargeable gains as accruing in respect of the payment, (c) the whole payment is matched with a qualifying amount of the settlement for a year of assessment falling at some time before that immediately preceding the one in which the payment is made, and (d) a beneficiary is charged to tax in respect of the payment by virtue of section 80 or 81(2). (2) The tax payable by the beneficiary in respect of the payment shall be increased by the amount found under sub-paragraph (3) below, except that it shall not be increased beyond the amount of the payment; and an assessment may charge tax accordingly. (3) The amount is one equal to the interest that would be yielded if an amount equal to the tax which would be payable by the beneficiary in respect of the payment (apart from this paragraph) carried interest for the chargeable period at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum. (4) The chargeable period is the period which-- (a) begins with the later of the two days specified in sub-paragraph (5) below, and (b) ends with 30th November in the year of assessment following that in which the capital payment is made. (5) The two days are-- (a) 1st December in the year of assessment following that for which the qualifying amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(c) above is the qualifying amount, and (b) 1st December falling six years before 1st December in the year of assessment following that in which the capital payment is made. (6) The Treasury may by order substitute for the percentage specified in sub-paragraph (3) above (whether as originally enacted or as amended at any time under this sub-paragraph) such other percentage as they think fit. (7) An order under sub-paragraph (6) above may provide that an alteration of the percentage is to have effect for periods beginning on or after a day specified in the order in relation to interest running for chargeable periods beginning before that day (as well as interest running for chargeable periods beginning on or after that day). (8) An order under sub-paragraph (6) above shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons. More than one qualifying amount5 (1) This paragraph applies where-- (a) a capital payment is made by the trustees of a settlement on or after 6th April 1992, (b) the payment is made in a year of assessment for which section 80 applies to the settlement or in circumstances where section 81(2) treats chargeable gains as accruing in respect of the payment, (c) the whole payment is matched with qualifying amounts of the settlement for different years of assessment, each falling at some time before that immediately preceding the one in which the payment is made, and (d) a beneficiary is charged to tax in respect of the payment by virtue of section 80 or 81(2). (2) For the purposes of this Schedule-- (a) the capital payment (the main payment) shall be treated as being as many payments (subsidiary payments) as there are qualifying amounts, (b) a qualifying amount shall be attributed to each subsidiary payment and each payment shall be quantified accordingly, and (c) the tax in respect of the main payment shall be divided up and attributed to the subsidiary payments on the basis of a just and reasonable apportionment. (3) Paragraph 4 above shall apply in the case of each subsidiary payment, the qualifying amount attributed to it and the tax attributed to it. Payment partly ignored6 (1) This paragraph applies where-- (a) a capital payment is made by the trustees of a settlement on or after 6th April 1992, (b) the payment is made in a year of assessment for which section 80 applies to the settlement or in circumstances where section 81(2) treats chargeable gains as accruing in respect of the payment, (c) part of the payment is matched with a qualifying amount of the settlement for a year of assessment falling at some time before that immediately preceding the one in which the payment is made, or with qualifying amounts of the settlement for different years of assessment each so falling, and (d) a beneficiary is charged to tax in respect of the payment by virtue of section 80 or 81(2). (2) For the purposes of this Schedule-- (a) only tax in respect of so much of the payment as is matched as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(c) above shall be taken into account, and references below to the tax shall be construed accordingly, (b) the capital payment shall be divided into two, the first part representing so much as is matched as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(c) above and the second so much as is not, (c) the second part shall be ignored, and (d) the first part shall be treated as a capital payment, the whole of which is matched with the qualifying amount or amounts mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(c) above, and the whole of which is charged to the tax. (3) Paragraph 4 above or paragraphs 4 and 5 above (as the case may be) shall apply in the case of the capital payment arrived at under sub-paragraph (2) above, the qualifying amount or amounts, and the tax. Parts of amounts matched7 Paragraphs 4 to 6 above shall apply (with appropriate modifications) where a payment or part of a payment is to any extent matched with part of an amount. Transfers between settlements8 (1) This paragraph applies if-- (a) in the year 1990-91 or a subsequent year of assessment the trustees of a settlement (the transferor settlement) transfer all or part of the settled property to the trustees of another settlement (the transferee settlement), and (b) looking at the state of affairs at the end of the year of assessment in which the transfer is made, there is a qualifying amount of the transferor settlement for a particular year of assessment (the year concerned) and the amount is not (or not wholly) matched with capital payments. (2) If the whole of the settled property is transferred, for the purposes of this Schedule-- (a) the transferor settlement's qualifying amount for the year concerned shall be treated as reduced by so much of it as is not matched, and (b) so much of that amount as is not matched shall be treated as (or as an addition to) the transferee settlement's qualifying amount for the year concerned. (3) If part of the settled property is transferred, for the purposes of this Schedule-- (a) so much of the transferor settlement's qualifying amount for the year concerned as is not matched shall be apportioned on such basis as is just and reasonable, part being attributed to the transferred property and part to the property not transferred, (b) the transferor settlement's qualifying amount for the year concerned shall be treated as reduced by the part attributed to the transferred property, and (c) that part shall be treated as (or as an addition to) the transferee settlement's qualifying amount for the year concerned. (4) If the transferee settlement did not in fact exist in the year concerned, for the purposes of this Schedule it shall be treated as having been made at the beginning of that year. (5) If the transferee settlement did in fact exist in the year concerned, this paragraph shall apply whether or not section 80 applies to the settlement for that year or for any year of assessment falling before that year. Matching after transfer9 (1) This paragraph applies as regards the transferee settlement in a case where paragraph 8 above applies. (2) Matching shall be made under paragraph 3 above by reference to the state of affairs existing immediately before the beginning of the year of assessment in which the transfer is made, and the transfer shall not affect matching so made. (3) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) above, payments shall be matched with amounts in accordance with paragraph 3 above and by reference to amounts arrived at under paragraph 8 above. Section 91. SCHEDULE 18 Settlements: beneficiaries (miscellaneous)Computation rules1 In section 80 of the [1981 c. 35.] Finance Act 1981 (gains of non-resident settlements) the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (6)-- " (6A) In computing an amount under subsection (2) above in respect of the year 1991-92 or a subsequent year of assessment, the effect of Schedule 10 to the [1988 c. 39.] Finance Act 1988 (settlor chargeable instead of trustees in certain circumstances) shall be ignored. " Dual-resident settlements2 The following section shall be inserted after section 80 of that Act-- " 80A Gains of dual-resident settlements(1) Section 80 above also applies to a settlement for any year of assessment beginning on or after 6th April 1991 if-- (a) the trustees are resident in the United Kingdom during any part of the year or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom during the year, (b) at any time of such residence or ordinary residence they fall to be regarded for the purposes of any double taxation relief arrangements as resident in a territory outside the United Kingdom, and (c) the settlor or one of the settlors is at any time during that year, or was when he made his settlement, domiciled and either resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom; and "double taxation relief arrangements" here means arrangements having effect by virtue of section 788 of the Taxes Act 1988 (as extended to capital gains tax by section 10 of the [1979 c. 14.] Capital Gains Tax Act 1979). (2) In respect of every year of assessment for which section 80 above applies by virtue of this section, section 80 shall have effect as if the amount to be computed under section 80(2) were the assumed chargeable amount; and the reference in section 80(2) to the corresponding amount in respect of an earlier year shall be construed as a reference to the amount computed under section 80(2) apart from this section or (as the case may be) the amount computed under section 80(2) by virtue of this section. (3) For the purposes of subsection (2) above the assumed chargeable amount in respect of a year of assessment is the lesser of the following two amounts-- (a) the amount on which the trustees would be chargeable to tax for the year under section 4(1) of the [1979 c. 14.] Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 on the assumption that the double taxation relief arrangements did not apply; (b) the amount on which, by virtue of disposals of protected assets, the trustees would be chargeable to tax for the year under section 4(1) of that Act on the assumption that those arrangements did not apply. (4) For the purposes of subsection (3)(b) above assets are protected assets if-- (a) they are of a description specified in the double taxation relief arrangements, and (b) were the trustees to dispose of them at any relevant time, the trustees would fall to be regarded for the purposes of the arrangements as not liable in the United Kingdom to tax on gains accruing to them on the disposal. (5) For the purposes of subsection (4) above-- (a) the assumption specified in subsection (3)(b) above shall be ignored; (b) a relevant time is any time, in the year of assessment concerned, when the trustees fall to be regarded for the purposes of the arrangements as resident in a territory outside the United Kingdom; (c) if different assets are identified by reference to different relevant times, all of them are protected assets. (6) In computing the assumed chargeable amount in respect of a particular year of assessment, the effect of Schedule 10 to the [1988 c. 39.] Finance Act 1988 (settlor chargeable instead of trustees in certain circumstances) shall be ignored. (7) For the purposes of section 80 above as it applies by virtue of this section, capital payments received before 6th April 1991 shall be disregarded. " 3 In section 81 of that Act (migrant settlements) in subsection (1) for the words "in each of which the trustees were at some time resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom" there shall be substituted "for each of which section 80 above does not apply to the settlement". Payments by and to companies4 The following section shall be inserted after section 82 of that Act-- " 82A Payments by and to companies(1) Where a capital payment is received from a qualifying company which is controlled by the trustees of a settlement at the time it is received, for the purposes of sections 80 to 82 above it shall be treated as received from the trustees. (2) Where a capital payment is received from the trustees of a settlement (or treated as so received by virtue of subsection (1) above) and it is received by a non-resident qualifying company, the rules in subsections (3) to (6) below shall apply for the purposes of sections 80 to 82 above. (3) If the company is controlled by one person alone at the time the payment is received, and that person is then resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, it shall be treated as a capital payment received by that person. (4) If the company is controlled by two or more persons (taking each one separately) at the time the payment is received, then-- (a) if one of them is then resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, it shall be treated as a capital payment received by that person; (b) if two or more of them are then resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom (the residents) it shall be treated as being as many equal capital payments as there are residents and each of them shall be treated as receiving one of the payments. (5) If the company is controlled by two or more persons (taking them together) at the time the payment is received and each of them is then resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom-- (a) it shall be treated as being as many capital payments as there are participators in the company at the time it is received, and (b) each such participator (whatever his residence or ordinary residence) shall be treated as receiving one of the payments, quantified on the basis of a just and reasonable apportionment. (6) But where (by virtue of subsection (5) above and apart from this subsection) a participator would be treated as receiving less than one twentieth of the payment actually received by the company, he shall not be treated as receiving anything by virtue of subsection (5) above. (7) For the purposes of subsection (1) above a qualifying company is a close company or a company which would be a close company if it were resident in the United Kingdom. (8) For the purposes of subsection (1) above a company is controlled by the trustees of a settlement if it is controlled by the trustees alone or by the trustees together with a person who (or persons each of whom) falls within subsection (9) below. (9) A person falls within this subsection if-- (a) he is a settlor in relation to the settlement, or (b) he is connected with a person falling within paragraph (a) above. (10) For the purposes of subsection (2) above a non-resident qualifying company is a company which is not resident in the United Kingdom and would be a close company if it were so resident. (11) For the purposes of this section the question whether a company is controlled by a person or persons shall be construed in accordance with section 416 of the Taxes Act 1988; but in deciding that question for those purposes no rights or powers of (or attributed to) an associate or associates of a person shall be attributed to him under section 416(6) if he is not a participator in the company. (12) In this section "participator" has the meaning given by section 417(1) of the Taxes Act 1988. (13) This section shall apply to payments received on or after 19th March 1991. " Beneficiaries5 In section 83 of that Act (supplementary provisions) the following subsections shall be inserted after subsection (7)-- " (8) In a case where-- (a) at any time on or after 19th March 1991 a capital payment is received from the trustees of a settlement or is treated as so received by virtue of section 82A(1) above, (b) it is received by a person, or treated as received by a person by virtue of section 82A(2) to (6) above, (c) at the time it is received or treated as received, the person is not (apart from this subsection) a beneficiary of the settlement, and (d) subsection (9) or (10) below does not prevent this subsection applying, for the purposes of sections 80 to 82 above the person shall be treated as a beneficiary of the settlement as regards events occurring at or after that time. (9) Subsection (8) above shall not apply where a payment mentioned in paragraph (a) is made in circumstances where it is treated (otherwise than by subsection (8) above) as received by a beneficiary. (10) Subsection (8) above shall not apply so as to treat-- (a) the trustees of the settlement referred to in that subsection, or (b) the trustees of any other settlement, as beneficiaries of the settlement referred to in that subsection. (11) In subsection (8) above "capital payment" has the same meaning as in sections 80 to 82A above. " Other amendments6 (1) Section 83 of that Act shall also be amended as follows. (2) In subsection (1)-- (a) for "82" there shall be substituted "82A", and (b) for "beneficiary" (in each place) there shall be substituted "recipient". (3) The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (1)-- " (1A) But in sections 80 to 82A above "capital payment" does not include a payment under a transaction entered into at arm's length. " (4) In subsection (2) for "subsection (1)" there shall be substituted "subsections (1) and (1A)". (5) In subsections (3)(a), (4) and (7) for "82" there shall be substituted "82A". (6) This paragraph shall apply in relation to payments received, transfers made, benefits conferred, or occasions arising, on or after 19th March 1991. Section 123. SCHEDULE 19 RepealsPart I Betting and gaming duties
Part II Beer duty
These repeals have effect in accordance with section 7 of this Act. Part III Vehicles excise duty: general
1 The repeals in section 4 of each of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 ("the 1971 Act") and the Vehicles (Excise) Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 ("the 1972 Act") are deemed to have come into force on 20th March 1991. 2 The repeals of section 7(4) of each of the 1971 Act and the 1972 Act come into force on 1st October 1991. 3 The repeals of section 38(4) of, and Schedule 6 to, the 1971 Act, section 35(4) of, and Schedule 7 to, the 1972 Act and sections 5(6) and 6(7) of the Finance Act 1982, so far as relating to the application of those provisions for the purpose of section 4(1)(g) of either the 1971 Act or the 1972 Act, are deemed to have come into force on 20th March 1991. 4 The repeal in Schedule 2 to the Finance Act 1985, and the repeals mentioned in note 3 above so far as relating to the application of the repealed provisions for the purpose of any provision of the 1971 Act or the 1972 Act other than section 4(1)(g), have effect in relation to licences taken out after 20th March 1991. Part IV Vehicles excise duty: Northern Ireland
These repeals have effect in accordance with section 10 of this Act. Part V Income tax and corporation tax
1 The repeal of section 78(4) of the Taxes Management Act 1970 and the repeal in Schedule 29 to the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 have effect in accordance with section 81 of this Act. 2 The repeal in section 86 of the Taxes Management Act 1970 has effect in accordance with paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 15 to this Act. 3 The repeals in sections 76, 432A, 436, 437, 446, 447, 448 and 474 of, and Schedule 28 to, the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 and in Schedules 6 and 7 to the Finance Act 1990 have effect for accounting periods beginning on or after 1st January 1992. 4 The following repeals have effect in relation to losses incurred in accounting periods ending on or after 1st April 1991-- (a) the repeals in sections 114, 243, 343, 393, 518 and 843 of, the repeals in Schedules 5 and 30 to, and the repeal of section 394 of, the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988; (b) the repeal in Schedule 1 to the Capital Allowances Act 1990; (c) the repeal of section 61 of, and the repeal in Schedule 14 to, the Finance Act 1990. 5 The repeals of section 339A of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 and section 27(1) and (3) of the Finance Act 1990 have effect in relation to accounting periods beginning on or after 19th March 1991. 6 The following repeals have effect for the year 1991-92 and subsequent years of assessment-- (a) the repeals of sections 354(3) and 726 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988; (b) the repeals in sections 367(1) and 737(2) of, and in Schedule 7 to, that Act; (c) the repeal of section 63 of the Finance Act 1989. 7 The repeals in section 465 of, and Schedule 15 to, the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 apply in relation to policies issued in pursuance of contracts made on or after the day on which this Act is passed. 8 The repeal of section 590(5) and (6) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 has effect in accordance with section 36 of this Act. 9 The repeals of sections 737(4) and 738(2) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 have effect in accordance with section 58 of this Act. 10 The repeal of section 62(2) of the Finance Act 1989 has effect in accordance with section 40 of this Act. 11 The repeals in sections 2(1), 3(3) and 26(1) of the Capital Allowances Act 1990 have effect in relation to any chargeable period or its basis period ending on or after 6th April 1990. 12 The repeal of section 25(2)(h) of the Finance Act 1990 has effect in relation to gifts made on or after 19th March 1991. Part VI Capital gains
1 The repeals in sections 342 and 342A of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 and Schedule 17 to the Housing Act 1988 are deemed to have come into force on 1st December 1988. 2 The repeals of section 80(2) of the Finance Act 1980 and section 63(3) of the Finance Act 1984 have effect in relation to disposals on or after 19th March 1991. 3 The repeal in section 64 of the Finance Act 1984 has effect in accordance with section 98 of this Act. 4 The remaining repeals (other than the repeal in Schedule 9 to the Finance Act 1988) have effect in accordance with section 92 of this Act. Part VII Stamp Duty
These repeals have effect in accordance with section 115 of this Act. Part VIII Trading funds
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