Finance Act 2013

Yn ddilys o 17/07/2013

135 U.K. In Chapter 5 (stock dividends from UK resident companies), after section 413 insert—

“413A Temporary non-residents

(1) This section applies if—

(a) an individual is temporarily non-resident,

(b) relevant stock dividend income is treated under this Chapter as arising to the individual in the temporary period of non-residence,

(c) the tax year in which it is treated as arising (“the arising year”) is a tax year for which the individual is UK resident, and

(d) the amount of income tax charged on the relevant stock dividend income under this Chapter is less than it would have been if the existence of double taxation relief arrangements were disregarded.

(2) Subsections (3) and (4) have effect in cases where the arising year is not the year of return.

(3) The total income (see Step 1 of the calculation in section 23 of ITA 2007) on which the individual is charged to income tax for the year of return is to be increased by an amount equal to the amount on which tax would be charged under this Chapter in respect of the relevant stock dividend income disregarding any double taxation relief arrangements.

(4) But the notional UK tax on that relevant stock dividend income is to be allowed as a credit against the individual's liability to income tax for the year of return under Step 6 of the calculation in section 23.

(5) If the arising year is the year of return, the tax charged under this Chapter in respect of the relevant stock dividend income is to be charged and assessed without regard to the existence of double taxation relief arrangements.

(6) Stock dividend income is “relevant stock dividend income” if—

(a) the UK resident company that issues the share capital or bonus share capital is a close company, and

(b) the individual is beneficially entitled to that share capital or bonus share capital by virtue of being at a relevant time—

(i) a material participator in the company, or

(ii) an associate of a material participator in the company.

(7) But stock dividend income within subsection (6) is not “relevant stock dividend income” to the extent that the share capital or bonus share capital is issued in respect of post-departure trade profits.

(8) “Post-departure trade profits” are—

(a) trade profits of the close company arising in an accounting period that begins after the start of the temporary period of non-residence, and

(b) so much of any trade profits of the close company arising in an accounting period that straddles the start of that temporary period as is attributable (on a just and reasonable basis) to a time after the start of that temporary period.

(9) The extent to which share capital or bonus share capital is issued in respect of post-departure trade profits is to be determined on a just and reasonable basis.

(10) The “notional UK tax” on the relevant stock dividend income is so much of the income tax paid by the individual for the arising year as is attributable on a just and reasonable basis to that income.

(11) In this section—

• “associate” and “participator” have the same meanings as in Part 10 of CTA 2010 (see sections 448 and 454);

• “material participator” means a participator who has a material interest in the company, as defined in section 457 of that Act;

• “relevant time” means—

  (a)

  any time in the year of departure or, if the year of departure is a split year as respects the individual, the UK part of that year, or

  (b)

  any time in one or more of the 3 tax years preceding that year;

• “trade profits of the close company” means the profits of any trade carried on by the close company, as calculated in accordance with Part 3 of CTA 2009 (trading income).”