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Chapter 2: Rates at which income tax is charged
Section 8: The dividend ordinary rate and dividend upper rate
Section 10: Income charged at the starting, basic and higher rates: individuals
Section 13: Income charged at the dividend ordinary and dividend upper rates: individuals
Section 14: Income charged at the dividend ordinary rate: other persons
Section 15: Income charged at the trust rate and the dividend trust rate
Section 16: Savings and dividend income to be treated as highest part of total income
Section 17: Repayment: tax paid at basic rate instead of starting or savings rate
Section 20: The starting rate limit and the basic rate limit
Section 21: Indexation of the starting rate limit and the basic rate limit
Chapter 3: Tax reductions for married couples and civil partners
Section 46: Marriages and civil partnerships on or after 5 December 2005
Section 47: Election by individual to transfer relief under section 45 or 46
Section 48: Joint election to transfer relief under section 45 or 46
Section 50: Procedure for making and withdrawing elections under sections 47 to 49
Section 54: Tax reductions in the year of marriage or entry into civil partnership
Section 66: Restriction on relief unless trade is commercial
Section 67: Restriction on relief in case of farming or market gardening
Section 72: Relief for individuals for losses in first 4 years of trade
Section 74: Restrictions on relief unless trade is commercial etc
Section 77: First-year allowances: partnerships with companies
Section 78: First-year allowances: arrangements to reduce tax liabilities
Section 85: Use of trade-related interest and dividends if trade profits insufficient
Section 89: Carry back of losses on a permanent cessation of a trade
Section 92: Use of trade-related interest and dividends if trade profits insufficient
Section 93: Mineral extraction trade and carry back of balancing allowances
Section 95: Foreign trades etc: reliefs only against foreign income
Section 101: Treating excess post-cessation trade relief as CGT loss
Chapter 3: Restrictions on trade loss relief for certain partners
Section 103: Meaning of “sideways relief”, “capital gains relief” and “firm”
Section 110: Restriction on reliefs for non-active partners in early tax years
Section 112: Meaning of “non-active partner” and “early tax year” etc
Section 114: Exclusion of amounts in calculating contribution to the firm or LLP
Section 115: Restrictions on reliefs for firms exploiting films
Section 116: Exclusion from restrictions under section 115: certain film expenditure
Part 5: Enterprise investment scheme
Chapter 3: General requirements
Chapter 4: The issuing company
Section 182: Ceasing to meet trading requirement because of administration or receivership
Section 183: The issuing company to carry on the qualifying business activity requirement
Section 193: Excluded activities: wholesale and retail distribution
Section 195: Excluded activities: receipt of royalties and licence fees
Section 197: Excluded activities: hotels and comparable establishments
Section 198: Excluded activities: nursing homes and residential care homes
Section 199: Excluded activities: provision of services or facilities for another business
Chapter 6: Withdrawal or reduction of EIS relief
Section 214: Value received: receipts of insignificant value
Section 218: Value received where there is more than one issue of shares
Section 219: Value received where part of share issue treated as made in previous tax year
Section 221: Receipts of value by and from connected persons etc
Section 224: Repayments etc of share capital to other persons
Section 225: Insignificant repayments ignored for purposes of section 224
Section 226: Amount of repayments etc where there is more than one issue of shares
Section 227: Single issue affecting more than one individual
Section 228: Single issue treated as made partly in previous tax year
Section 230: Repayment of authorised minimum within 12 months
Section 231: Restriction on withdrawal of relief under section 224
Part 6: Venture capital trusts
Section 264: No entitlement to relief if there is a linked loan
Section 265: No entitlement to relief which would have been lost if it had already been obtained
Section 266: Loss of relief if shares disposed of within 5 years
Section 267: Transfers of shares between spouses or civil partners
Section 269: Loss of relief which is subsequently found not to have been due
Section 270: Assessment on withdrawal or reduction of relief
Section 275: Alternative requirements for the giving of approval
Section 278: Conditions relating to value of investments: general
Section 279: Conditions relating to value of investments: qualifying holdings
Section 280: Conditions relating to qualifying holdings and eligible shares
Section 282: Withdrawal of VCT approval in cases for which provision made under section 280(3)
Chapter 4: Qualifying holdings
Section 291: The carrying on of a qualifying activity requirement
Section 292: Ceasing to meet requirements because of administration or receivership
Section 294: The relevant company to carry on the relevant qualifying activity requirement
Section 304: Excluded activities: wholesale and retail distribution
Section 306: Excluded activities: receipt of royalties and licence fees
Section 308: Excluded activities: hotels and comparable establishments
Section 309: Excluded activities: nursing homes and residential care homes
Section 310: Excluded activities: provision of services or facilities for another business
Chapter 5: Powers: winding up and mergers of VCTs
Section 315: Power to treat conditions for VCT approval as met with respect to VCT-in-liquidation
Section 316: Power to make provision about distributions by VCT-in-liquidation
Section 317: Power to facilitate disposal to VCT by VCT-in-liquidation
Section 318: Power in respect of periods before and after winding up
Section 322: Provision that may be made by regulations under section 321
Part 7: Community investment tax relief
Chapter 2: Accredited community development finance institutions
Chapter 3: Qualifying investments
Chapter 6: Withdrawal or reduction of CITR
Section 361: Disposal of securities or shares during 5 year period
Section 363: Value received by investor during 6 year period: loans
Section 364: Value received by investor during 6 year period: securities or shares
Section 365: Receipts of insignificant value to be added together
Section 368: Value received if there is more than one investment
Section 369: Effect of receipt of value on future claims for CITR
Section 388: Loan to buy plant or machinery for partnership use
Section 389: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 388
Section 390: Loan to buy plant or machinery for employment use
Section 391: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 390
Section 393: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 392
Section 396: Loan to buy interest in employee-controlled company
Section 397: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 396
Section 399: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 398
Section 402: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 401
Section 404: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 403
Section 405: Carry back and forward of relief for interest on loans within section 403
Section 406: Effect of recovery of capital in the case of some loans
Section 407: Events counting as recovery of capital for section 406
Section 411: Ineligibility of interest where business is occupation of commercial woodlands
Chapter 3: Gifts of shares, securities and real property to charities etc
Part 9: Special rules about settlements and trustees
Chapter 2: General provision about settlements and trustees
Section 471: Identification of settlor following transfer covered by section 470
Section 472: Settlor where property becomes settled because of variation of will etc
Section 473: Deceased person as settlor where variation of will etc
Section 474: Trustees of settlement to be treated as a single and distinct person
Section 476: How to work out whether settlor meets condition C
Section 477: Sub-fund elections under Schedule 4ZA to TCGA 1992
Section 478: References to settled property etc in regulations
Chapter 3: Special rates for trustees’ income
Section 479: Trustees’ accumulated or discretionary income to be charged at special rates
Section 480: Meaning of “accumulated or discretionary income”
Section 481: Other amounts to be charged at special rates for trustees
Section 482: Types of amount to be charged at special rates for trustees
Section 483: Sums paid by personal representatives to trustees
Chapter 4: Trustees’ expenses and special rates for trustees
Part 10: Special rules about charitable trusts etc
Section 520: Gifts entitling donor to gift aid relief: income tax treated as paid
Section 521: Gifts entitling donor to gift aid relief: income tax liability and exemption
Section 522: Gifts of money from companies: income tax liability and exemption
Section 523: Payments from other charities: income tax liability and exemption
Section 526: Exemption for profits etc of small-scale trades
Section 527: Exemption from charges under provisions to which section 1016 applies
Section 528: Condition as to trading and miscellaneous incoming resources
Section 537: Exemption for income from estates in administration
Section 542: How income is attributed to the non-exempt amount
Section 546: Section 543(1)(f): tax year in which certain expenditure treated as incurred
Section 547: Section 543(1)(f): payment to body outside the UK
Section 548: Section 543(1)(i) and (j): investments and loans
Section 551: Non-charitable expenditure in substantial donor transactions
Section 552: Adjustment if section 551(1) and (2) applied to single transaction
Section 553: Section 551: certain payments and benefits to be ignored
Section 559: Securities which are approved charitable investments
Section 562: Excess expenditure treated as non-charitable expenditure of earlier years
Section 563: Rules for attributing excess expenditure to earlier years
Part 11: Manufactured payments and repos
Chapter 2: Manufactured payments
Section 575: Allowable deductions: restriction on double-counting
Section 576: Manufactured dividends on UK shares: Real Estate Investment Trusts
Section 580: Allowable deductions: restriction on double counting
Section 583: Manufactured payments exceeding underlying payments
Section 584: Manufactured payments less than underlying payments
Section 587: Power for manufactured payments to be eligible for relief
Section 589: Meaning of “gross amount”: interest and manufactured overseas dividends
Chapter 3: Tax credits: stock lending arrangements and repos
Chapter 4: Deemed manufactured payments
Section 596: Deemed manufactured payments: stock lending arrangements
Section 597: Deemed interest: cash collateral under stock lending arrangements
Section 598: Cash collateral under stock lending arrangements: supplementary
Section 599: Sections 597 and 598: quasi-stock lending arrangements and quasi-cash collateral
Section 600: Meaning of “quasi-stock lending arrangements” and “quasi-cash collateral”
Section 604: Deemed increase in repurchase price: price differences under repos
Section 605: Deemed increase in repurchase price: other income tax purposes
Part 12: Accrued Income Profits
Chapter 2: Accrued income profits and losses
Section 619: Meaning of “securities” and when securities are of the same kind
Section 622: Application of Chapter to different kinds of transfer
Section 628: Making accrued income profits and losses: general rules
Section 629: Calculating accrued income profits and losses where section 628 applies
Section 630: Making accrued income profits: settlement day outside interest period
Section 631: Amount of accrued income profits where section 630 applies
Section 635: Payment on transfer of variable rate securities
Section 636: Exception where there is a transfer to a legatee
Section 637: Accrued income losses treated as payments in next interest period
Section 638: Excluded persons: disregard of certain payments and transfers
Section 641: Small holdings: trustees of a disabled person’s trusts
Section 644: Individuals to whom the remittance basis applies
Section 651: Owner becoming entitled to securities as trustee
Section 652: Securities ceasing to be held on charitable trusts
Section 655: Transfers under sale and repurchase arrangements
Section 656: Power to modify: non-standard sale and repurchase arrangements
Section 659: Transfers with or without accrued interest: interest in default
Section 660: Transfers with unrealised interest: interest in default
Section 661: Successive transfers with unrealised interest in default
Section 662: New securities issued with extra return: special rules about payments
Section 663: Transfers without accrued interest to makers of manufactured payments
Section 664: Foreign currency securities: sterling equivalent of payments on transfers
Section 665: Foreign currency securities: unrealised interest payable in foreign currency
Section 666: Certain transfers by or to nominees or trustees treated as made by or to others
Section 667: Trustees’ accrued income profits treated as settlement income
Section 668: Relief for unremittable transfer proceeds: general
Section 669: Relief for unremittable transfer proceeds: section 630 profits
Chapter 3: Exemptions relating to interest on securities
Section 678: Exemptions relating to interest on securities: preliminary
Section 679: Interest on securities involving accrued income losses: general
Section 680: Interest on securities involving accrued income losses: foreign trustees
Section 681: Unrealised interest received by transferee after transfer
Chapter 1: Transactions in securities
Section 684: Person liable to counteraction of income tax advantage
Section 686: Abnormal dividends used for exemptions or reliefs (circumstance A)
Section 687: Deductions from profits obtained following distribution or dealings (circumstance B)
Section 690: Receipt of assets of relevant company (circumstance E)
Section 691: Meaning of “relevant company” in sections 689 and 690
Section 693: Abnormal dividends: the excessive return condition
Section 694: Abnormal dividends: the excessive accrual condition
Section 695: Preliminary notification that section 684 may apply
Section 697: Opposed notifications: determinations by tribunal
Section 699: Limit on amount assessed in section 689 and 690 cases
Section 702: Effect of clearance notification under section 701
Section 706: Rehearing by tribunal of appeal against counteraction notice
Section 707: Statement of case by tribunal for opinion of High Court or Court of Session
Section 709: Effect of appeals against tribunal’s determination under section 706
Section 712: Application of Chapter where individual within section 684 dies
Chapter 2: Transfer of assets abroad
Section 720: Charge to tax on income treated as arising under section 721
Section 721: Individuals with power to enjoy income as a result of relevant transactions
Section 722: When an individual has power to enjoy income of person abroad
Section 724: Special rules where benefit provided out of income of person abroad
Section 725: Reduction in amount charged where controlled foreign company involved
Section 727: Charge to tax on income treated as arising under section 728
Section 728: Individuals receiving capital sums as a result of relevant transactions
Section 731: Charge to tax on income treated as arising under section 732
Section 732: Non-transferors receiving a benefit as a result of relevant transactions
Section 734: Reduction in amount charged: previous capital gains tax charge
Section 737: Exemption: all relevant transactions post-4 December 2005 transactions
Section 739: Exemption: all relevant transactions pre-5 December 2005 transactions
Section 742: Partial exemption where later associated operations fail conditions
Section 744: Meaning of taking income into account in charging income tax for section 743
Section 745: Rates of tax applicable to income charged under sections 720 and 727 etc
Section 746: Deductions and reliefs where individual charged under section 720 or 727
Section 747: Amounts corresponding to accrued income scheme profits and related interest
Section 749: Restrictions on particulars to be provided by solicitors
Section 750: Restrictions on particulars to be provided by banks
Chapter 3: Transactions in land
Section 755: Charge to tax on gains from transactions in land
Section 756: Income treated as arising where gains obtained from some land disposals
Section 761: Transactions, arrangements, sales and realisations relevant for Chapter
Section 765: Exemption: gain attributable to period before intention to develop formed
Section 766: Exemption: disposals of shares in companies holding land as trading stock
Section 768: Recovery of tax where consideration receivable by person not assessed
Chapter 4: Sales of occupation income
Section 778: Income arising where capital amount other than derivative property or right obtained
Section 779: Income arising where derivative property or right obtained
Section 780: Transactions, arrangements, sales and realisations relevant for Chapter
Section 785: Restriction on exemption: sales of future earnings
Section 786: Recovery of tax where consideration receivable by person not assessed
Chapter 5: Avoidance involving trading losses
Section 791: Charge to tax on income treated as received under section 792
Section 792: Partners claiming excess sideways or capital gains relief
Section 793: Calculating the amount of income treated as received
Section 794: Meaning of “the total amount of trade losses claimed” etc
Section 796: Charge to tax on income treated as received under section 797
Section 797: Individuals claiming sideways or capital gains relief for film-related losses
Section 799: Meaning of “disposal of a right of the individual to profits” etc
Section 802: Exclusion of amounts in calculating capital contribution by a partner
Section 804: Charge to tax on income treated as received under section 805
Section 805: Partners claiming relief for licence-related trading losses
Section 806: Calculation of amount of income treated as received by the individual
Section 807: Supplementary provision relating to calculation in section 806
Part 14: Income tax liability: miscellaneous rules
Chapter 1: Limits on liability to income tax of non‑UK residents
Section 811: Limit on liability to income tax of non‑UK residents
Section 815: Limit on liability to income tax of non‑UK resident companies
Section 823: Treatment of transactions where requirements of 20% rule not met
Section 824: Application of 20% rule to collective investment schemes
Section 825: Meaning of “disregarded savings and investment income”
Section 827: Meaning of “investment manager” and “investment transaction”
Section 828: Transactions through brokers and investment managers
Section 837: Jointly held property: declarations of unequal beneficial interests
Part 15: Deduction of income tax at source
Chapter 2: Deduction by deposit-takers and building societies
Section 852: Power to make regulations disapplying section 851
Section 857: Investments to be treated as being or as not being relevant investments
Section 859: Declarations of non-UK residence: Scottish partnerships
Section 860: Declarations of non-UK residence: personal representatives
Section 864: Qualifying uncertificated eligible debt security units
Section 871: Power to make regulations to give effect to Chapter
Chapter 3: Deduction from certain payments of yearly interest
Chapter 4: Deduction from payments in respect of building society securities
Chapter 5: Deduction from payments of UK public revenue dividends
Chapter 6: Deduction from annual payments and patent royalties
Chapter 7: Deduction from other payments connected with intellectual property
Chapter 8: Chapters 6 and 7: Special provision in relation to royalties
Chapter 9: Manufactured payments
Section 918: Manufactured dividends on UK shares: Real Estate Investment Trusts
Section 919: Manufactured interest on UK securities: payments by UK residents etc
Section 920: Foreign payers of manufactured interest: the reverse charge
Section 921: Cases where interest on underlying securities paid gross
Section 922: Manufactured overseas dividends: payments by UK residents etc
Section 923: Foreign payers of manufactured overseas dividends: the reverse charge
Chapter 10: Deduction from non-commercial payments by companies
Chapter 11: Payments between companies etc: exception from duties to deduct
Chapter 14: Tax avoidance: directions for duty to deduct to apply
Chapter 15: Collection: deposit-takers, building societies and certain companies
Section 950: Payments otherwise than in an accounting period
Section 954: Proceedings begun after a set-off claim is made
Section 955: Proceedings begun before a set-off claim is made
Section 956: Assessments where section 946 payment included in return
Section 959: Application of Income Tax Acts provisions about time limits for assessments
Section 961: Relationship between Chapter and Income Tax Acts powers
Chapter 18: Other regimes involving the deduction of income tax at source
Section 976: Arrangements for payments of interest less tax or at specified net rate
Section 979: Designated international organisations: exceptions from duties to deduct
Section 980: Derivative contracts: exception from duties to deduct
Section 981: Foreign currency securities etc: exception from duties to deduct
Section 982: Income tax is calculated by reference to gross amounts
Section 986: Meaning of “qualifying uncertificated eligible debt security unit”
Part 16: Income Tax Acts definitions etc
Chapter 2: Other Income Tax Acts provisions
Section 1009: Sources of income within the charge to income tax or corporation tax
Section 1010: Application of Income Tax Acts to recognised investment exchanges
Section 1011: References to married persons, or civil partners, living together
Section 1012: Relationship between rules on highest part of total income
Section 1015: Territorial scope of charges under certain provisions to which section 1016 applies
Section 1016: Table of provisions to which this section applies
Part 17: Definitions for purposes of Act and final provisions
Schedule 2: Transitionals and savings
Part 5: Losses (except losses on disposal of shares)
Sideways relief: trade leasing allowances given to individuals
Reliefs for limited partners not to exceed contribution to the firm
Reliefs for members of LLPs not to exceed contribution to the LLP
Members of LLPs: carry-forward of losses
Reliefs for non-active partners not to exceed contribution to the firm
Restrictions on reliefs for non-active partners: pre-10 February 2004 events
Application of existing regulations under sections 114 and 802
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