Income Tax Act 2007

Discretion to make payments gross

914 EU companies: discretion to make payment gross

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a company makes a royalty payment and, at the time the payment is made, the company reasonably believes that the payment is exempt from income tax as a result of section 758 of ITTOIA 2005 (exemption for certain interest and royalty payments), but

(b) there is a duty to deduct a sum representing income tax from the payment under section 903(7) or 906 if the payment is not in fact exempt.

(2) The company may make the payment without deducting a sum representing income tax under section 903(7) or 906 (as the case may be).

(3) But if the payment is not in fact exempt from income tax as a result of section 758 of ITTOIA 2005, this Part has effect as if subsection (2) had never applied in relation to the payment.

915 Power to make directions disapplying section 914

(1) This section applies if an officer of Revenue and Customs is not satisfied that one or more payments to be made by a company will be exempt from income tax as a result of section 758 of ITTOIA 2005 (exemption for certain interest and royalty payments).

(2) The officer may direct the company that section 914 is not to apply to the payment or payments.

(3) A direction under subsection (2) may be varied or revoked by a later direction.

916 Duty of payee to notify if payment not exempt

(1) This section applies if before a payment of a royalty is made, the company beneficially entitled to the income in respect of which the payment is to be made—

(a) believed that the payment was exempt from income tax as a result of section 758 of ITTOIA 2005 (exemption for certain interest and royalty payments), but

(b) has subsequently become aware that any of conditions A to C in that section have ceased to be met.

(2) The company must without delay notify—

(a) an officer of Revenue and Customs, and

(b) the company which is to make the payment.

917 Supplementary

(1) If section 763 of ITTOIA 2005 (special relationships) applies, sections 914 to 916 have effect in relation to only so much of the payment as does not exceed the arm’s length amount (within the meaning of that section).

(2) Expressions used in sections 914 to 916 and in sections 757 to 767 of ITTOIA 2005 have the same meaning in sections 914 to 916 as in those sections.