(1)This section applies if a person is not entitled to a tax credit for a qualifying distribution included in the person’s income for a tax year.
(2)The person is treated as having paid income tax at the dividend ordinary rate on the amount or value of the distribution (but see subsection (7)).
(3)For the purposes of subsection (2), if the person is non-UK resident the amount or value of the distribution is treated as the grossed up amount, unless the person is a company which is beneficially entitled to the income.
(4)If the person is non-UK resident and the distribution is income to which section 686 of ICTA applies (accumulation and discretionary trusts: special rates of tax), for the purposes of that section the amount or value of the distribution is treated as the grossed up amount.
(5)In this section “the grossed up amount” means the actual amount or value of the distribution, grossed up by reference to the dividend ordinary rate for the tax year.
(6)The income tax treated as paid under subsection (2) is not repayable.
(7)Subsection (2) is subject to the following provisions—
section 231AA(1A) of ICTA (which disapplies subsection (2) for borrower under stock lending arrangement or interim holder under repurchase agreement),
section 231AB(1A) of ICTA (which disapplies subsection (2) for original owner under a repurchase agreement in respect of certain manufactured dividends), and
section 469(2B) of ICTA (which disapplies subsection (2) for trustees of a unit trust scheme that is neither an authorised unit trust nor an umbrella scheme).