Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 | 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 Trading income
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Income taxed as trade profits
Charge to tax on trade profits
Trades and trade profits
Starting and ceasing to trade
Trading income and property income
Rent-a-room and foster-care relief
Chapter 3 Trade profits: basic rules
Chapter 4 Trade profits: rules restricting deductions
Introduction
Capital expenditure
Wholly and exclusively and losses rules
Bad and doubtful debts
Unpaid remuneration
Employee benefit contributions
Business entertainment and gifts
Car or motor cycle hire
Patent royalties
Interest payments
Social security contributions
Penalties, interest and VAT surcharges
Crime-related payments
Integral features
Chapter 5 Trade profits: rules allowing deductions
Introduction
Pre-trading expenses
Subsistence expenses
Incidental costs of obtaining finance
Tenants under taxed leases
Renewals
Payments for restrictive undertakings
Seconded employees
Contributions to agents' expenses
Counselling and retraining expenses
Redundancy payments etc.
Personal security expenses
Contributions to local enterprise organisations or urban regeneration companies
Scientific research
Expenses connected with patents, designs and trade marks
Export Credits Guarantee Department
Expenses connected with foreign trades
Chapter 6 Trade profits: receipts
Introduction
Capital receipts
Debts released
Amounts received following earlier cessation
Reverse premiums
Assets of mutual concerns
Industrial development grants
Proceeds of insurance etc.
Chapter 7 Trade profits: gifts to charities etc.
Chapter 8 Trade profits: herd basis rules
Introduction
The herd basis rules
Elections
Preventing abuse of the herd basis rules
Supplementary
Chapter 9 Trade profits: sound recordings
Introduction
Expenditure treated as revenue in nature
Rules for allocating expenditure
Certified master versions: special rules for allocating expenditure
Certified master versions: limited-budget films
Interpretation of sections 138 to 140
Deferred income agreements
Election for sections 134 to 140 not to apply
Supplementary
Chapter 10 Trade profits: certain telecommunication rights
Chapter 10A Leases of plant or machinery: special rules for long funding leases
Lessors under long funding finance leases
Lessors under long funding operating leases
Lessors under long funding finance or operating leases: avoidance etc.
Lessees under long funding finance leases
Lessees under long funding operating leases
Interpretation of this Chapter
Chapter 11 Trade profits: other specific trades
Dealers in securities etc.
Persons authorised for purposes of FISMA 2000
Dealers in land etc.
Ministers of religion
Barristers and advocates
Mineral exploration and access
Persons liable to pool betting duty
Intermediaries treated as making employment payments
Managed service companies
Waste disposal
Cemeteries and crematoria
Chapter 11A Trade profits: changes in trading stock
Introduction
Transfers of trading stock between trade and trader
Other disposals not made in the course of trade
Relationship with transfer pricing rules
Chapter 12 Trade profits: valuation of stock and work in progress on cessation of trade
Valuation of trading stock
Valuation of work in progress
Supplementary
Chapter 13 Deductions from profits: unremittable amounts
Chapter 14 Disposal and acquisition of know-how
Chapter 15 Basis periods
Introduction
Accounting date
The normal rules
Apportionment of profits
Overlap profits and losses
Rules where first accounting date shortly before end of tax year
Slight variations in accounting date
Special rules if accounting date changes
Chapter 16 Averaging profits of farmers and creative artists
Chapter 17 Adjustment income
Introduction
Adjustment on change of basis
Treatment of adjustment income and adjustment expense
Expenses previously brought into account
Realising or writing off assets
Mark to market
Spreading of adjustment income: barristers and advocates
Supplementary
Chapter 18 Post-cessation receipts
Introduction
Charge to tax on post-cessation receipts
Meaning of “post-cessation receipts”
Sums treated as post-cessation receipts
Sums that are not post-cessation receipts
Deductions
Reliefs
Chapter 19 Supplementary
Part 3 Property income
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Property businesses
Introduction
Basic meaning of UK and overseas property business
Generating income from land
Chapter 3 Profits of property businesses: basic rules
Charge to tax on profits of a property business
Calculation of profits
Apportionment of profits
Chapter 4 Profits of property businesses: lease premiums etc.
Introduction
Amounts treated as receipts: leases
Other amounts treated as receipts
Additional calculation rule for reducing certain receipts
Deductions in relation to certain receipts
Limit on effect of additional calculation rule and deductions
Relationship with ICTA
Certain administrative provisions
Effective duration of lease
Other interpretative provisions
Chapter 5 Profits of property businesses: other rules about receipts and deductions
Furnished accommodation: receipts and deductions
Treatment of receipts on acquisition of business
Reverse premiums as receipts
Deductions for expenditure on energy-saving items
Deductions for expenditure on sea walls
Mineral royalties
Apportionments on sale of land
Mutual business
Chapter 6 Commercial letting of furnished holiday accommodation
Introduction
Definition
Separate profit calculations
Chapter 7 Adjustment income
Adjustment on change of basis
Treatment of adjustment income and adjustment expense
Chapter 8 Rent receivable in connection with a UK section 12(4) concern
Charge to tax on rent receivable in connection with a UK section 12(4) concern
Management expenses of owner of mineral rights
Mineral royalties
Chapter 9 Rent receivable for UK electric-line wayleaves
Charge to tax on rent receivable for UK electric-line wayleaves
Chapter 10 Post-cessation receipts
Charge to tax on post-cessation receipts
Meaning of “post-cessation receipts”
Supplementary
Chapter 11 Overseas property income
Chapter 12 Supplementary
Part 4 Savings and investment income
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Interest
Charge to tax on interest
Other income taxed as interest
Chapter 3 Dividends etc. from UK resident companies and tax credits etc. in respect of certain distributions
Introduction
Charge to tax on dividends and other distributions
Amounts treated as dividends
Shares in approved share incentive plans (“SIPs”)
Tax credits and payment and deduction of tax
Chapter 4 Dividends from non-UK resident companies
Charge to tax on dividends from non-UK resident companies
Shares in approved share incentive plans (“SIPs”)
Chapter 5 Stock dividends from UK resident companies
Chapter 6 Release of loan to participator in close company
Chapter 7 Purchased life annuity payments
Chapter 8 Profits from deeply discounted securities
Charge to tax under Chapter 8
Deeply discounted securities
Disposals
Calculating profits
Special rules for strips of government securities
Special rules for corporate strips
Special rules for listed securities held since 26th March 2003
Trustees
Miscellaneous and supplementary
Chapter 9 Gains from contracts for life insurance etc.
Charge to tax under Chapter 9
Person liable etc.
Policies and contracts to which Chapter 9 applies
When chargeable events occur: general
Calculating gains: general
Part surrenders and assignments: periodic calculations and excess events
Transaction-related calculations and part surrender or assignment events
Personal portfolio bonds
Reductions from gains
Income tax treated as paid and reliefs
Deficiencies
Rebated or reinvested commission
Supplementary
Chapter 10 Distributions from unauthorised unit trusts
Chapter 11 Transactions in deposits
Chapter 12 Disposals of futures and options involving guaranteed returns
Charge to tax under Chapter 12
When disposals involve guaranteed returns
When disposals of futures and options occur
Losses
Trustees
Transfer of assets abroad
Chapter 13 Sales of foreign dividend coupons
Part 5 Miscellaneous income
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Receipts from intellectual property
Introduction
Charge to tax on non-trading income from intellectual property
Disposals of know-how
Sales of patent rights
Relief from income tax on patent income
Payments received after deduction of tax
Supplementary
Chapter 3 Films and sound recordings: non-trade businesses
Chapter 4 Certain telecommunication rights: non-trading income
Chapter 5 Settlements: amounts treated as income of settlor
Charge to tax under Chapter 5
Income charged and person liable
Rules for calculating income
Income treated as income of settlor: retained interests
Income treated as income of settlor: relevant children
Capital sums treated as income of settlor: trustees' payments
Trustees' payments: further provisions
Capital sums treated as income of settlor: connected bodies
Settlements by two or more settlors
Other supplementary provisions
Chapter 6 Beneficiaries' income from estates in administration
Charge to tax on estate income
Types of estate income
Income charged and person liable
Basic amount of estate income: general calculation rules
Further provisions for calculating estate income relating to absolute interests
Special rules for successive interests
Relief where foreign estates have borne UK income tax
General
Chapter 7 Annual payments not otherwise charged
Chapter 8 Income not otherwise charged
Part 6 Exempt income
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 National savings income
Chapter 3 Income from individual investment plans
Chapter 4 SAYE interest
Chapter 5 Venture capital trust dividends
Chapter 6 Income from FOTRA securities
Chapter 7 Purchased life annuity payments
Partial exemption for purchased life annuity payments
Immediate needs annuities
Chapter 8 Other annual payments
Certain annual payments by individuals
Periodical payments of personal injury damages etc.
Health and employment insurance payments
Payments to adopters
Payments by persons liable to pool betting duty
Chapter 9 Other income
Interest only income
Interest and royalty payments
Income from commercial occupation of woodlands
Housing grants
Approved share incentive plan distributions
Foreign income of consular officers and employees
Income of non-UK residents from certain securities
Other
Chapter 10 General
Part 7 Income charged under this Act: rent-a-room and foster-care relief
Chapter 1 Rent-a-room relief
Introduction
Basic definitions
Individual’s limit
Relief if amount does not exceed limit
Alternative calculation of profits if amount exceeds limit
Elections
Interpretation
Chapter 2 Foster-care relief
Introduction
Basic definitions
Individual’s limit
Relief if amount does not exceed limit
Alternative calculation of profits if amount exceeds limit
Periods of account not ending on 5th April
Capital allowances for foster carers carrying on trade
Overlap profit
Part 8 Foreign income: special rules
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Relevant foreign income charged on remittance basis
Remittance basis
Relief for delayed remittances
Chapter 3 Relevant foreign income charged on arising basis: deductions and reliefs
Chapter 4 Unremittable income
Part 9 Partnerships
Introduction
Calculation of partners' shares
Firms with trading income
Firms with trading and other source income
Firms with a foreign element
Miscellaneous
Part 10 General provisions
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 General calculation rules etc.
Unpaid remuneration
Employee benefit contributions
Business entertainment and gifts
Social security contributions
Penalties, interest and VAT surcharges
Crime-related payments
Apportionment of profits
Calculation of losses
Chapter 3 Supplementary and general provisions
Orders and regulations
Interpretation
General and final
Schedules
Schedule 1 Consequential amendments
Schedule 2 Transitionals and savings etc.
Schedule 4 Abbreviations and defined expressions





