Finance Act 1991

3 (1) Section 737 of the Taxes Act 1988 (manufactured dividends: treatment of tax deducted) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) For subsection (1) there shall be substituted—

“(1) Subject to the provisions of this section and of Schedule 23A, where, under a contract or other arrangements for the transfer of securities, one of the parties (the “dividend manufacturer”) is required to pay to the other an amount representative of a periodical payment of interest on the securities, section 350(1) and Schedule 16 shall apply as if the payment by the dividend manufacturer (the “manufactured dividend”) were an annual payment made, after due deduction of tax, wholly out of a source other than profits or gains brought into charge to income tax.”

(3) For subsection (3) there shall be substituted—

“(3) Subsection (1) above shall not apply in any case where—

(a) the dividend manufacturer is a company resident in the United Kingdom; or

(b) the manufactured dividend is a manufactured overseas dividend, within the meaning of Schedule 23A.”

(4) Subsection (4) (purchase of securities by dividend manufacturer resident in the United Kingdom from person not so resident) shall cease to have effect; and for subsection (5) (dividend manufacturers not resident in the United Kingdom) there shall be substituted—

“(5) Where the dividend manufacturer in relation to the contract or other arrangements mentioned in subsection (1) above is not resident in the United Kingdom and the manufactured dividend is paid by him otherwise than in the course of a trade which he carries on through a branch or agency in the United Kingdom, that subsection shall not apply; but if the manufactured dividend is received by a person resident in the United Kingdom (the “United Kingdom recipient”), then unless the United Kingdom recipient shows either—

(a) that the dividend manufacturer was entitled to payment of the dividend as the registered holder of the securities, or

(b) that the dividend manufacturer was entitled to payment of the dividend directly or indirectly from a person from whom he acquired the securities, or to whom he transferred them, and who was so entitled to the payment,

the United Kingdom recipient shall be assessable and chargeable with an amount of income tax in respect of the manufactured dividend equal to that which the dividend manufacturer would have been required to account for and pay had he been resident in the United Kingdom.”

(5) After that subsection there shall be inserted—

“(5A) Where this section applies in relation to a manufactured dividend, relief shall not be given to any person under any provision of the Tax Acts in respect of any amount which he is required to deduct from the manufactured dividend on account of income tax; and in this subsection “relief” means relief by way of—

(a) deduction in computing profits or gains; or

(b) deduction or set off against income or total profits.”

(6) In subsection (6) (definitions)—

(a) for the definitions of “broker” and “market maker” there shall be substituted—

““dividend manufacturing regulations” means regulations made by the Treasury under Schedule 23A;

“prescribed” means prescribed in dividend manufacturing regulations;

“recognised investment exchange” means a recognised investment exchange within the meaning of the [1986 c. 60.] Financial Services Act 1986;”; and

(b) after the definition of “securities” there shall be inserted—

““transfer” includes any sale or other disposal;”.

(7) After subsection (7) there shall be inserted—

“(7A) Where the dividend manufacturer—

(a) is not resident in the United Kingdom but carries on a trade through a branch or agency in the United Kingdom, or

(b) is a member, of a prescribed class or description, of a prescribed recognised investment exchange,

dividend manufacturing regulations may make provision for this section and such other provisions of the Tax Acts as may be prescribed to apply with prescribed modifications in connection with the manufactured dividend or any tax required to be deducted or accounted for in respect of it.

(7B) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (7A) above, dividend manufacturing regulations made by virtue of that subsection may, in particular, include provision—

(a) entitling the dividend manufacturer to any prescribed relief to which he would not otherwise be entitled;

(b) denying the dividend manufacturer any prescribed relief to which he would otherwise be entitled;

(c) prescribing the manner in which amounts required to be deducted or accounted for on account of tax are to be accounted for and paid;

and, without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (c) above, any regulations made for the purpose specified in that paragraph may include provision, in a case falling within subsection (7A)(a) above, for the manufactured dividend to be a relevant payment for the purposes of Schedule 16 and for that Schedule to apply in relation to it with such modifications as may be prescribed.”