Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

Valid from 24/07/2002

[F1 338B Charges on income: annuities or other annual payments U.K.

(1) An annuity or other annual payment is a charge on income if—

(a) the requirements specified in subsection (2) are met, and

(b) it is not excluded from being a charge on income for the purposes of corporation tax—

(i) by any of the following provisions of this section, or

(ii) by any other provision of the Corporation Tax Acts.

(2) The requirements are that the payment—

(a) is made under a liability incurred for a valuable and sufficient consideration,

(b) is not charged to capital,

(c) is ultimately borne by the company, and

(d) in the case of a company not resident in the United Kingdom, is incurred wholly and exclusively for the purposes of a trade which is or is to be carried on by it in the United Kingdom through a branch or agency.

(3) An annuity or other annual payment made to a person not resident in the United Kingdom shall be treated as a charge on income only if the following conditions are met.

(4) The conditions are that the company making the payment is resident in the United Kingdom and that either—

(a) the company deducts tax from the payment in accordance with section 349, and accounts under Schedule 16 for the tax so deducted, or

(b) the person beneficially entitled to the income in respect of which the payment is made is a company that is not resident in the United Kingdom but which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a branch or agency and the payment falls to be brought into account in computing the chargeable profits (within the meaning given by section 11(2) of that company, or

(c) the payment is one payable out of income brought into charge to tax under Case V of Schedule D.

(5) An annuity or other annual payment is not a charge on income if—

(a) it is payable in respect of the company’s loan relationships, or

(b) it is a royalty to which Schedule 29 to the Finance Act 2002 applies (intangible fixed assets).

(6) Nothing in this section prevents an annuity or other annual payment from being a charge on income if it is a qualifying donation (within the meaning of section 339).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 338-338B substituted for s. 338 (24.7.2002) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 30 para. 1(2)