Section 835E: Branch or agency treated as UK representative
1197.This section provides that a branch or agency in the United Kingdom through which a non-UK resident carries on a trade, profession or vocation is the non-UK resident’s UK representative in relation to the amount of any income of the non-UK resident from the trade, profession or vocation arising through or from the branch or agency. It is based on section 126(2), (3), (4) and (5) of FA 1995.
1198.Subsection (2) sets out the amounts of income of a non-UK resident in relation to which a branch or agent in the United Kingdom through which the non-UK resident carries on a trade, profession or vocation is the UK representative of the non-UK resident.
1199.If a branch or agency in the United Kingdom of a non-UK resident ceases to be the non-UK resident’s branch or agency, the branch or agency nevertheless continues thereafter to be the UK representative of the non-UK resident in relation to the amounts of income of the non-UK resident mentioned in subsection (2). See Rule 2 in subsection (3).
1200.Subsection (5) introduces sections 835G to 835K which provide exceptions to the general rule in subsection (2) that a branch or agency in the United Kingdom through which a non-UK resident carries on a trade, profession or vocation is the UK representative of the non-UK resident in relation to the amounts of income mentioned in subsection (2).