Section 75.
1Part XVI of the Taxes Act 1988 shall be amended as follows.
2(1)In section 695 (limited interests in residue), the words “subject to subsection (3) below” in subsection (2) shall be omitted, and the following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (3)—
“(3)Where, on the completion of the administration of the estate, there is an amount which remains payable in respect of that limited interest, that amount shall be deemed for all tax purposes to have been paid to that person as income for the year of assessment in which the administration period ends or, in the case of a sum which is deemed to be paid in respect of an interest that ceased before the end of that period, for the last year of assessment in which that interest was subsisting.”
(2)This paragraph has effect in relation to any estate the administration of which is completed on or after 6th April 1995.
3(1)In section 696 (absolute interests in residue), for subsection (3) there shall be substituted the following subsections—
“(3)When any sum has been paid during the administration period in respect of that absolute interest, that sum, except so far as it is excluded from the operation of this subsection, shall be deemed for all tax purposes to have been paid to that person as income for the year of assessment in which it was actually paid.
(3A)A payment shall be excluded from the operation of subsection (3) above to the extent (if any) that the aggregate of that sum and all the sums which—
(a)have been paid previously during the administration period in respect of that absolute interest, and
(b)fall under this section to be treated as paid to that person as income,
exceeds the aggregated income entitlement of that person for the year of assessment in which the sum is paid.
(3B)For the purposes of this section the aggregated income entitlement of that person for any year of assessment is the amount which would be the aggregate of the amounts received for that year of assessment and all previous years of assessment in respect of the interest if that person had a right in each year to receive, and had received—
(a)in the case of a United Kingdom estate, his residuary income for that year less income tax at the applicable rate for that year; and
(b)in the case of a foreign estate, his residuary income for that year.”
(2)For subsection (5) of that section there shall be substituted the following subsection—
“(5)Where, on the completion of the administration of the estate, the aggregate of all the sums which, apart from this subsection—
(a)have been paid during the administration period in respect of that absolute interest, and
(b)fall under this section to be treated as paid to that person as income,
is exceeded by the aggregated income entitlement of that person for the year of assessment in which the administration of the estate is completed, then an amount equal to the amount of the excess shall be treated for the purposes of subsections (3) to (4) above as having been actually paid, immediately before the end of the administration period, in respect of that interest.”
(3)Sub-paragraph (1) above has effect, subject to sub-paragraph (4) below, in relation to any payment made on or after 6th April 1995; and sub-paragraph (2) above shall have effect in relation to any estate the administration of which is completed on or after 6th April 1995.
(4)Where any sum is deemed by virtue of subsection (3) of section 696 of the Taxes Act 1988 (as it has effect apart from this Schedule) to have been paid to any person as income for the year 1994-95 or any previous year of assessment, that sum shall be treated for the purposes of subsections (3A) and (5) of that section (as they have effect by virtue of this Schedule) as a sum actually paid in respect of that person’s absolute interest in that year of assessment.
4(1)After subsection (1) of section 697 (calculation of residuary income) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(1A)For the purpose of ascertaining under subsection (1) above the residuary income of an estate for any year, where the amount of the deductions falling to be made from the aggregate income of the estate for that year (including any falling to be made by virtue of this subsection) exceeds the amount of that income, the excess shall be carried forward and treated for that purpose as an amount falling to be deducted from the aggregate income of the estate for the following year.”
(2)In subsection (2) of that section (reduction of residuary income where benefits received are less than aggregate of residuary income), for the words from “his residuary income for” onwards there shall be substituted “section 696 shall have effect as if the amount of the deficiency were to be applied in reducing the amount taken to be his residuary income for the year in which the administration of the estate is completed and, in so far as the deficiency exceeds that income, in reducing the amount taken to be his residuary income for the previous year, and so on.”
(3)Sub-paragraph (1) above has effect for ascertaining the residuary income of an estate for the year 1995-96 or any subsequent year of assessment; and sub-paragraph (2) above has effect in relation to any estate the administration of which is completed on or after 6th April 1995.
5(1)For subsection (2) of section 698 (special provisions as to successive interests in residue) there shall be substituted the following subsections—
“(1A)Subsection (1B) below applies where—
(a)successively during the administration period there are different persons with interests in the residue of the estate of a deceased person or in parts of such a residue;
(b)the later interest or, as the case may be, each of the later interests arises or is created on the cessation otherwise than by death of the interest that precedes it; and
(c)the earlier or, as the case may be, earliest interest is a limited interest.
(1B)Where this subsection applies, this Part shall have effect in relation to any payment made in respect of any of the interests referred to in subsection (1A) above—
(a)as if all those interests were the same interest so that none of them is to be treated as having ceased on being succeeded by any of the others;
(b)as if (subject to paragraph (c) below) the interest which is deemed to exist by virtue of paragraph (a) above (“the deemed single interest”) were an interest of—
(i)except in a case to which sub-paragraph (ii) below applies, the person in respect of whose interest or previous interest the payment is made;
(ii)in a case where the person entitled to receive the payment is any other person who has or has had an interest which is deemed to be comprised in the deemed single interest, that other person;
and
(c)in so far as any of the later interests is an absolute interest as if, for the purposes of section 696(3A) to (5)—
(i)the earlier interest or interests had never existed and the absolute interest had always existed;
(ii)the sums (if any) which were deemed in relation to the earlier interest or interests to have been paid as income for any year of assessment to any of the persons entitled thereto were sums previously paid during the administration period in respect of the absolute interest; and
(iii)those sums were sums falling to be treated as sums paid as income to the person entitled to the absolute interest.
(2)Where successively during the administration period there are different persons with absolute interests in the residue of the estate of a deceased person or in parts of such a residue, the aggregate payments and aggregated income entitlement referred to in subsections (3A) and (3B) of section 696 shall be computed for the purposes of that section in relation to an absolute interest subsisting at any time (“the subsequent interest”)—
(a)as if the subsequent interest and any previous absolute interest corresponding to the subsequent interest, or relating to any part of the residue to which the subsequent interest relates, were the same interest; and
(b)as if the residuary income for any year of the person entitled to the previous interest were residuary income of the person entitled to the subsequent interest and any amount deemed to be paid as income to the person entitled to the previous interest were an amount deemed to have been paid to the person entitled to the subsequent interest.”
(2)This paragraph has effect in relation to any payment made on or after 6th April 1995 and, so far as it relates to the operation of section 695(3) or 696(5) of the Taxes Act 1988, in relation to any estate the administration of which is completed on or after that date.
6After subsection (4) of section 700 (adjustments and information) there shall be inserted the following subsections—
“(5)It shall be the duty of a personal representative of a deceased person, if a request to do so is made in writing by a person who has, or has had, an absolute or limited interest in the residue of the estate of the deceased or by a person to whom any of the income of the residue of that estate has been paid in the exercise of any discretion, to furnish the person making the request with a statement in writing setting out—
(a)in respect of every amount which has been, or is treated as having been, actually paid to that person in respect of that interest or in the exercise of that discretion, the amount (if any) deemed under this Part to have been paid to him as income for a year of assessment; and
(b)the amount of any tax at the applicable rate which any amount falling within paragraph (a) above is deemed to have borne;
and, where an amount deemed to have been paid as income to any person for any year of assessment is deemed for any of the purposes of this Part to have borne tax on different parts of it at different applicable rates, the matters to be set out in pursuance of paragraphs (a) and (b) above shall be set out separately as respects each part of that amount.
(6)The duty imposed by subsection (5) above shall be enforceable at the suit or instance of the person making the request.”
7Subsection (14) of section 701 (cases where residuary income has borne income tax at the additional rate) shall cease to have effect.