Chapter 6: Trustees’ first slice of trust rate income
Overview
1438.This Chapter is based on sections 686D and 686E of ICTA.
Section 491: Special rates not to apply to first slice of trustees’ trust rate income
1439.This section provides for the first £1,000 of any trustees’ income that would otherwise be chargeable at one of the special trust rates to be taxed instead at the rate or rates that normally apply to the income. It is based on section 686D of ICTA.
1440.Subsections (3) and (4) set out the steps to be taken in identifying the first slice of income (if it exceeds £1,000) and in determining the rate of tax to apply to income within that slice.
1441.The order is established by reference to the rules regarding ordering of income in section 16. The effect is that, so far as possible, the first slice consists first of income for which the normal rate is the basic rate, then, of income for which the normal rate is the savings rate and finally, of income for which the normal rate is the dividend ordinary rate. The first slice is then taxed at the normal rates appropriate to the types of income of which it consists.
Section 492: Cases where settlor has made more than one settlement
1442.This section reduces the band of income charged at normal rates if a settlor of that settlement has made other settlements. It is based on section 686E of ICTA.
1443.The £1,000 band is divided by the total number of existing settlements made by the settlor, but not so as reduce the band below £200. If there is more than one settlor for the settlement in question then the lowest threshold arrived at by this calculation is used.
