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Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

Section 528: Reduction in amount charged: non-UK resident policy holders

2069.This section is based on section 553 of ICTA. In effect, it exempts the part of the gain on foreign policies that represents investment profit for the period when the policy holder was not resident in the United Kingdom. The reduction does not apply to gains arising on life annuity contracts.

2070.The reduction is proportionate to the period during the course of the policy, measured to the date the chargeable event occurred, in which the policy holder was not UK resident. This method reverses the approach in the source legislation, where the calculation produces the amount of the reduced gain, rather than the amount by which the gain is reduced.

2071.The policy holder and the person or persons liable to tax on the gain may not be the same.

2072.Subsections (5) and (6) provide a special rule for a “new policy”. Under paragraph 17 of Schedule 15 to ICTA, a “new policy” is a policy which is issued in substitution for, or on the maturity of, an earlier policy (as a result of exercising an option contained in the earlier policy). Where there has been one or more replacement policies, the course of the policy is taken to run from the earliest original policy.

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