Income Tax Act 2007 | Consolidated to 2009
We have incorporated changes made by all the Finance Acts up to and including the Finance Act 2009, as well as those made by Statutory Instruments (up to and including those taking effect on 1 January 2010. Each amendment is clearly cited, with the source identified.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Overview
Part 2 Basic provisions
Chapter 1 Charges to income tax
Chapter 2 Rates at which income tax is charged
The rates
Income charged at particular rates
Indexation of basic rate limit and starting rate limit for savings
Chapter 3 Calculation of income tax liability
Part 3 Personal reliefs
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Personal allowance and blind person’s allowance
Introduction
Personal allowances
Blind person’s allowance
Supplementary
Chapter 3 Tax reductions for married couples and civil partners
Introduction
Married couple’s allowance
Elections to transfer relief
Transfer of unused relief
Supplementary
Chapter 4 General
Part 4 Loss relief
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Trade losses
Introduction
Trade loss relief against general income
Restriction on relief for uncommercial trades
Restriction on relief for “hobby” farming or market gardening
Use of trading loss as CGT loss
Early trade losses relief
General restrictions on sideways relief and capital gains relief
Restrictions on sideways relief for certain capital allowances
Restriction on sideways relief for specific trades
Carry-forward trade loss relief
Terminal trade loss relief
Wholly foreign trades
Post-cessation trade relief
Chapter 3 Restrictions on trade loss relief for certain partners
Introduction
Limit on amount of sideways relief and capital gains relief
Limited partners
Members of LLPs
Non-active members of LLPs or other partnerships (apart from limited partnerships)
Exclusion of amounts in calculating contribution to the firm or LLP
Restrictions for film trades carried on in partnership
Chapter 4 Losses from property businesses
Introduction
Carry-forward property loss relief
Property loss relief against general income
Post-cessation property relief
Furnished holiday accommodation
Chapter 5 Losses in an employment or office
Chapter 6 Losses on disposal of shares
Share loss relief against general income
Shares to which EIS relief is not attributable
Qualifying trading companies: the requirements
Qualifying trading companies: supplementary
Limits on share loss relief and mixed holdings
Miscellaneous and supplementary
Chapter 7 Losses from miscellaneous transactions
Loss relief against miscellaneous income
Deposit rights
Supplementary
Part 5 Enterprise investment scheme
Chapter 1 Introduction
EIS relief
Miscellaneous
Chapter 2 The investor
Introduction
The requirements
Meaning of connection with issuing company
Chapter 3 General requirements
Introduction
The requirements
Meaning of “qualifying business activity”
Chapter 4 The issuing company
Introduction
The requirements
Definitions
Excluded activities
Supplementary
Chapter 5 Attribution of and claims for EIS relief
Attribution
Claims: general
Claims: supporting documents
Chapter 6 Withdrawal or reduction of EIS relief
Introduction
Disposals
Value received by investor
Repayments etc. of share capital to other persons
Miscellaneous
Chapter 7 Withdrawal or reduction of EIS relief: procedure
Assessments and appeals
Interest
Information
Chapter 8 Supplementary and general
Disposals of shares
Acquisition of issuing company
Nominees etc.
Interpretation
Part 6 Venture capital trusts
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 VCT relief
Entitlement to relief
Loss of relief
Supplementary
Chapter 3 VCT approvals
Giving of approval
Withdrawal of approval
Supplementary
Chapter 4 Qualifying holdings
Introduction
The requirements
Definitions
Excluded activities
Supplementary
Chapter 5 Powers: winding up and mergers of VCTs
Winding up
Mergers
Supplementary
Chapter 6 Supplementary and general
Acquisitions for restructuring purposes
Conversion of shares etc. and company reorganisations
Supplementary
Part 7 Community investment tax relief
Chapter 1 Introduction
CITR
Miscellaneous
Chapter 2 Accredited community development finance institutions
Chapter 3 Qualifying investments
Chapter 4 General conditions
Chapter 5 Claims for and attribution of CITR
Claims
Attribution
Chapter 6 Withdrawal or reduction of CITR
Introduction
Disposals
Repayment of loans
Receipts of value
CITR not due
Manner of withdrawal or reduction
Chapter 7 Supplementary and general
Miscellaneous
Definitions
Part 8 Other reliefs
Chapter 1 Interest payments
The relief: introduction
Loans for plant or machinery
Loans for interests in close companies
Loans for interests in employee-controlled companies
Loans for investing in partnerships
Loans for investing in co-operatives
Loans for paying inheritance tax
General and supplementary
Chapter 2 Gift aid
The relief
Restrictions on associated benefits
Admission rights
Disqualified overseas gifts
Measures to ensure donor’s liability not less than tax treated as deducted
Election to carry back relief
Supplementary
Chapter 3 Gifts of shares, securities and real property to charities etc.
Entitlement to relief
Amount of relief
Value of net benefit to charity
Special provisions about qualifying interests in land
Supplementary
Chapter 4 Annual payments and patent royalties
Chapter 5 Qualifying maintenance payments
Chapter 6 Miscellaneous other reliefs
Payments for life insurance etc.
Patent royalty receipts
Part 9 Special rules about settlements and trustees
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 General provision about settlements and trustees
Overview
Settled property
Settlors
Trustees
Sub-funds
Regulations
Chapter 3 Special rates for trustees' income
Chapter 4 Trustees' expenses and special rates for trustees
Chapter 5 Share incentive plans
Chapter 6 Trustees' first slice of trust rate income
Chapter 7 Discretionary payments
Chapter 8 Trustees' expenses and beneficiary’s income
Chapter 9 Unauthorised unit trusts
Chapter 10 Heritage maintenance settlements
Introduction
Trustees' election in respect of income etc.
Absence of election and income treated as income of settlor: special rules
Application of property for non-heritage purposes: charge to tax
Part 10 Special rules about charitable trusts etc.
Introduction
Gifts and other payments
Other exemptions
Claims
Restrictions on exemptions
Non-charitable expenditure
Substantial donor transactions
Approved charitable investments and loans
Carry back of excess non-charitable expenditure
Part 11 Manufactured payments and repos
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Manufactured payments
Introduction
Manufactured dividends on UK shares
Manufactured interest on UK securities
Manufactured overseas dividends
Special cases
General regulation-making powers
Interpretation
Chapter 3 Tax credits: stock lending arrangements and repos
Stock lending arrangements
Repos
Interpretation
Chapter 4 Deemed manufactured payments
Stock lending arrangements
Repos
Interpretation
Chapter 5 Price differences under repos
Main tax treatment
Additional tax treatment
Interpretation
Power to modify
Chapter 6 Powers to modify repo provisions
Part 12 Accrued income profits
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Accrued income profits and losses
Charge to tax
Securities to which Chapter applies
Transfers to which Chapter applies
Calculating accrued income profits and losses
The payments treated as made on transfers
Exception where there is a transfer to a legatee
Relief for losses
Excluded transferors and transferees
Further transactions treated as transfers
Excluded transfers
Special rules about some calculations
Nominees and trustees
Relief where transfer proceeds unremittable
Individuals to whom remittance basis applies
Interpretation
Chapter 3 Exemptions relating to interest on securities
Part 13 Tax avoidance
Chapter 1 Transactions in securities
Introduction
Person liable to counteraction of income tax advantages
Circumstances in which income tax advantages obtained or obtainable
Procedure for counteraction of income tax advantages
Clearance procedure and information powers
The tribunal
Appeals
Supplementary
Chapter 2 Transfer of assets abroad
Introduction
Charge where power to enjoy income
Charge where capital sums received
Charge where benefit received
Exemptions: no tax avoidance purpose or genuine commercial transaction
General
Supplementary
Chapter 3 Transactions in land
Introduction
Charge on gains from transactions in land
Further provisions relevant to the charge
Exemptions
Recovery of tax
Clearances and power to obtain information
Interpretation
Chapter 4 Sales of occupation income
Introduction
Charge on sale of occupation income
Further provisions relevant to the charge
Exemption for sales of going concerns
Recovery of tax
Power to obtain information
Interpretation
Chapter 5 Avoidance involving trading losses
Introduction
Individuals in partnership: recovery of excess relief
Individuals claiming relief for film-related trading losses
Individuals in partnership claiming relief for licence-related trading losses
Chapter 5A Transfers of income streams
Chapter 6 Avoidance involving leases of plant and machinery
Part 14 Income tax liability: miscellaneous rules
Chapter A1 Remittance basis
Introduction
Application of remittance basis
Effect of section 809B, 809D or 809E applying
Remittance of income and gains: introduction
Remittance of income and gains: meaning of "remitted to the United Kingdom"
Remittance of income and gains: amount remitted
Remittance of income and gains: transfers from mixed funds
Remittance of income and gains: supplementary
Remittance of income and gains: property treated as not remitted
Interpretation of Chapter
Chapter 1 Limits on liability to income tax of non-UK residents
Introduction
Limit for non-UK resident individuals, trustees etc.
Limit for non-UK resident companies
The independent broker conditions
The independent investment manager conditions
Supplementary
Chapter 1A Exemption for persons not domiciled in United Kingdom
Chapter 2 Residence
Chapter 3 Jointly held property
Chapter 4 Other miscellaneous rules
Part 15 Deduction of income tax at source
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Deduction by deposit-takers and building societies
Introduction
Duty to deduct sums representing income tax
Deposit-takers and relevant investments
Investments which are not relevant investments: non-UK resident beneficiaries
Other investments which are not relevant investments
Supplementary
Chapter 3 Deduction from certain payments of yearly interest
Duty to deduct sums representing income tax
Exceptions from duty to deduct
Chapter 4 Deduction from payments in respect of building society securities
Chapter 5 Deduction from payments of UK public revenue dividends
Introduction
Duty to deduct sums representing income tax
Payments which are payable gross
Deduction at source applications
Regulations
Chapter 6 Deduction from annual payments and patent royalties
Introduction
Duty to deduct from annual payments
Duty to deduct from patent royalties
Supplementary
Chapter 7 Deduction from other payments connected with intellectual property
Certain royalties etc. where usual place of abode of owner is abroad
Proceeds of a sale of patent rights
Chapter 8 Chapters 6 and 7: special provision in relation to royalties
Deduction at special rates
Discretion to make payments gross
Chapter 9 Manufactured payments
Manufactured dividends
Manufactured interest
Manufactured overseas dividends
Supplementary
Chapter 10 Deduction from non-commercial payments by companies
Chapter 11 Payments between companies etc: exception from duties to deduct
Introduction
Exception from duties to deduct for excepted payments
Excepted payments
Incorrect belief that payment is an excepted payment
Chapter 12 Funding bonds
Chapter 13 Unauthorised unit trusts
Chapter 14 Tax avoidance: directions for duty to deduct to apply
Chapter 15 Collection: deposit-takers, building societies and certain companies
Introduction
Returns of income tax
Collection and payment of income tax
Set-off
Assessments and errors
Supplementary
Chapter 16 Collection: certain payments by other persons
Chapter 17 Collection through self-assessment return
Chapter 18 Other regimes involving the deduction of income tax at source
Visiting performers
Non-resident landlords
Real Estate Investment Trusts
Chapter 19 General
Supplementary
Interpretation
Part 16 Income Tax Acts definitions etc.
Chapter 1 Definitions
Chapter 2 Other Income Tax Acts provisions
Part 17 Definitions for purposes of Act and final provisions
Definitions for the purposes of Act
Final provisions
Schedules
Schedule 1 Minor and consequential amendments
Schedule 2 Transitionals and savings
Schedule 3 Repeals and revocations





