Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

686 [F1 Accumulation and discretionary trusts: special rates of tax.] U.K.

(1) M1 So far as income arising to trustees is income to which this section applies it shall [F2 be chargeable to income tax [F3 at the rate applicable in accordance with subsection (1AA) below], instead of at the basic rate or, in accordance with [F4 section 1A], at the lower rate [F5 or the Schedule F ordinary rate].]

[F6 (1AA) The rate applicable in accordance with this subsection is—

(a) in the case of so much of any income to which this section applies as is Schedule F type income, the Schedule F trust rate; and

(b) in the case of any other income to which this section applies, the rate applicable to trusts.]

[F7 (1A) [F8 In relation to any year of assessment for which income tax is charged—

(a) the Schedule F trust rate shall be 25 per cent., and

(b) the rate applicable to trusts shall be 34 per cent.,

or, in either case, such other rate as Parliament may determine.]

[F9 For the purposes of assessments] for the year 1993-94 and in relation to years of assessment for which tax at the basic rate and the additional rate was separately chargeable, references to the charging of income with tax at the rate applicable to trusts shall be taken to include references to the charging of income with tax both at the basic rate and at the additional rate.]

(2) This section applies to income arising to trustees in any year of assessment so far as it—

(a) is income which is to be accumulated or which is payable at the discretion of the trustees or any other person (whether or not the trustees have power to accumulate it); and

[F10 (b) is not, before being distributed, either—

(i) the income of any person other than the trustees, or

(ii) treated for any of the purposes of the Income Tax Acts as the income of a settlor; and]

[F11 (c) is not income arising under a trust established for charitable purposes only or [F12 , subject to section (6A) below,] income from investments, deposits or other property held—

(i) for the purposes of a fund or scheme established for the sole purpose of providing relevant benefits within the meaning of section 612; or

(ii) for the purposes of a personal pension scheme (within the meaning of section 630) which makes provision only for benefits such as are mentioned in section 633; F13 . . . ]

(d) F13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F14 (2AA) The rate at which income tax is chargeable on so much of any income arising to trustees in any year of assessment as—

(a) is income to which this section applies, and

(b) is treated in accordance with section 689B as applied in defraying the expenses of the trustees in that year which are properly chargeable to income (or would be so chargeable but for any express provisions of the trust),

shall be the rate at which it would be chargeable on that income apart from this section, instead of the rate applicable to trusts [F15 or the Schedule F trust rate (as the case may be)].]

[F16 (2A) For the purposes of this section where—

(a) any trustees have expenses in any year of assessment (“management expenses”) which are properly chargeable to income or would be so chargeable but for any express provisions of the trust, and

(b) there is income arising to them in that year (“the untaxed income”) which does not bear income tax for that year by reason wholly or partly of the trustees not having been resident in the United Kingdom or being deemed under any arrangements under section 788, or any arrangements having effect by virtue of that section, to have been resident in a territory outside the United Kingdom,

there shall be disregarded for the purposes of [F17 subsection (2AA)] above such part of the management expenses as bears the same proportion to all those expenses as the untaxed income bears to all the income arising to the trustees in that year.]

[F18 (2B) For the purposes of subsection (2A) above where the income tax borne by any income arising to trustees is limited in accordance with section 128 of the M2 Finance Act 1995 (limit on income chargeable on non-residents), the income arising to the trustees which shall be taken not to bear tax by reason wholly or partly of their not having been resident in the United Kingdom shall include so much of any income arising to them as—

(a) is excluded income within the meaning of that section; and

(b) is not income which is treated for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) of that section as income the tax on which is deducted at source.]

(3) This section also applies to sums apportioned to the trustees under section 423and treated, under 426(2)as applied by subsection (4)below, as income received by the trusteesF19 .

(4) Sections 426(1)and (2), 427and 428shall, with the omission in section 426(2)(a)of the words following “the apportionment relates”, the substitution of “ income ” for “total income” and all other necessary modifications, apply to a sum apportioned to trustees as they apply to sums apportioned to an individual; and section 429shall apply accordinglyF20 .

(5) For the purposes of this section sums paid or credited to trustees in any year of assessment in respect of dividends or interest payable in respect of shares in or deposits with or loans to a building society being sums in respect of which the society is required to account for and pay an amount in accordance with regulations under section 476(1) shall be treated as income for that year received by the trustees after deduction of income tax from a corresponding gross amount.

In this subsection expressions used in section 476 have the same meanings as in that section.

[F21 (5A) In this section “Schedule F type income”, in relation to trustees, means—

(a) income chargeable under Schedule F;

(b) income to which section 1A applies by virtue of its being equivalent foreign income falling within subsection (3)(b) of that section and chargeable under Case V of Schedule D;

(c) a qualifying distribution whose amount or value is determined in accordance with section 233(1A);

(d) a non-qualifying distribution, within the meaning of section 233(1B);

(e) income treated as arising to the trustees by virtue of section 249(6)(b);

(f) income treated as received by the trustees by virtue of section 421(1)(a);

(g) any amount which, by virtue of section 686A, is treated for the purposes of the Tax Acts as if it were income to which this section applies.]

(6) In this section “trustees” does not include personal representatives; but where personal representatives, on or before the completion of the administration of the estate, pay to trustees any sum representing income which, if personal representatives were trustees within the meaning of this section, would be income to which this section applies, that sum shall be deemed to be paid to the trustees as income and to have borne income tax at the [F22 applicable rate].

This subsection shall be construed as if it were contained in Part XVI.

[F23 (6A) The exemptions provided for by subsection (2)(c) above in relation to income from investments, deposits or other property held as mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of that paragraph do not apply to income derived from investments, deposits or other property held as a member of a property investment LLP.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 686 sidenote substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 32(11) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 32(8)

F2 Words in s. 686(1) substituted (27.7.1993 with effect for the year 1993-1994 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1993 c. 34, s. 79, Sch. 6 paras. 8(1), 25(1)

F3 Words in s. 686(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 32(11) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 32(2)(a)

F4 Words in s. 686(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 6 para. 28 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 6 para. 13

F5 Words in s. 686(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 32(11) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 32(2)(b)

F6 S. 686(1AA) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 32(11) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 32(3)

F7 S. 686(1A) inserted (27.7.1993 with effect for the year 1993-1994 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1993 c. 34, s. 79, Sch. 6 paras. 8(2), 25(1)

F8 Words in s. 686(1A) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 32(11) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 32(4)

F9 Words in s. 686(1A) substituted (6.4.1999) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 32(5)(10)

F10 S. 686(2)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 74(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), Sch. 17 para. 13

F11 1988(F) s.55(3)—from 1July 1988.Previously

“(c) is not income arising under a trust established for charitable purposes only or income from investments, deposits or other property held for the purposes of a fund or scheme established for the sole purpose of providing relevant benefits within the meaning of section 612; and”.

F12 Words in s. 686(2)(c) inserted (6.4.2001) by Finance Act 2001 (c. 9), s. 76, Sch. 25 para. 3(2)

F13 S. 686(2)(d) and preceding word repealed (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 12(4) of the repealing Act) by Finance Act 1997 (c. 16), Sch. 7 paras. 1, 12(1), Sch. 18 Pt. 6(7), Note 1

F14 S. 686(2AA) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 12(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1997 (c. 16), Sch. 7 paras. 1, 12(1)

F15 Words in s. 686(2AA) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 32(11) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 32(6)

F16 S. 686(2A) inserted (27.7.1993 with effect for the year 1993-1994 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1993 c. 34, s. 79, Sch. 6 paras. 8(3), 25(1)

F17 Words in s. 686(2A) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 12(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1997 (c. 16), Sch. 7 paras. 1, 12(2)

F18 S. 686(2B) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 6 para. 28 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 6 para. 15

F19 Repealed by 1989 s.187and Sch.17 Part Vin relation to accounting periods beginning after 31March 1989.

F20 Repealed by 1989 s.187and Sch.17 Part Vin relation to accounting periods beginning after 31March 1989.

F21 S. 686(5A) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 32(11) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 32(7)

F22 Words in s. 686(6) substituted (27.7.1993 with effect for the year 1993-1994 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1993 c. 34, s. 79, Sch. 6 paras. 8(4), 25(1)

F23 S. 686(6A) inserted (6.4.2001) by Finance Act 2001 (c. 9), s. 76, Sch. 25 para. 3(3)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 686 extended (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 3(5) of the extending Act) by Finance Act 1997 (c. 16), Sch. 7 paras. 1, 3(2)

C2 See—s.186(11)—approved profit sharing schemes.s.454—underwriter's special reserve fund not to be treated as settlement.s.469(1)—unit trusts.s.832— “additional rate”

defined.1990 s.56and Sch.10 para.19—convertible securities.Vol.1. Table D(2).

C3 See 1990 s.30and Sch.5 para.13and s.132and Sch.19 Part IV—subs.(5)repealed as regards a sum paid or credited on or after 6April 1991.

C4 S. 686(6) applied (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 3(5) of the affecting Act) by Finance Act 1997 (c. 16), Sch. 7 paras. 1, 3(4)

Marginal Citations

M1 Source-1973 s.16(1)-(6); 1986 s.47(4)(a)

M2 1995 c. 4.