Finance Act 1960

69 Assimilation of authorised unit trust schemes to investment companies: (income tax)

(1) In respect of income arising to the trustees of an authorised unit trust scheme, the enactments relating to income tax (including the regulations made thereunder) shall have effect as if the trustees were a company, resident in the United Kingdom, whose business consists mainly in the making of investments and the principal part of whose income is derived therefrom, and as if the rights of the unit holders were shares of the company, and so much of the income arising as aforesaid as is available for payment to unit holders or for investment were dividends on such shares paid to them in proportion to their rights, the date of payment, in the case of income not paid to unit holders, being taken to be—

(a) the date or latest date provided by the terms of the scheme for any distribution in respect of the distribution period in question;

(b) if no date is so provided, the last day of the distribution period.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing subsection—

(a) sums periodically appropriated out of income arising as aforesaid for managers' remuneration shall be treated for the purposes of section four hundred and twenty-five of the Income Tax Act, 1952, as sums disbursed as expenses of management,

(b) the proportion of income attributable to any unit holder, being income not paid to unit holders but available for investment, shall be treated as an amount paid to the unit holder after such deduction of tax as is authorised by subsection (1) of section one hundred and eighty-four of the Income Tax Act, 1952;

(c) section one hundred and ninety-nine of that Act shall apply with any necessary modifications.