Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 Explanatory Notes

Chapter 7 of Part 13 of ITA: Avoidance involving obtaining tax relief for interest

1325.This Part inserts Chapter 7 in Part 13 of ITA consisting of section 809ZG (tax relief schemes and arrangements), which is based on section 787 of ICTA.

1326.Section 787 of ICTA originally appeared as section 38 of FA 1976. It is an anti-avoidance provision directed against schemes designed to generate tax relief for interest.

1327.Section 443 of CTA 2009 rewrote section 787 of ICTA for the purposes of corporation tax, and Schedule 1 to that Act confined section 787 to income tax.

1328.Most of the income tax provisions in Part 17 of ICTA (tax avoidance) have been rewritten in ITA or are rewritten in that Act by Schedules 4 and 5 to this Act. For the convenience of the user, section 787 of ICTA is rewritten as a new section in Part 13 of ITA (tax avoidance).

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