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- Chapter 2: Rates at which income tax is charged - Section 8: The dividend ordinary rate and dividend upper rate 
- Section 10: Income charged at the starting, basic and higher rates: individuals 
- Section 13: Income charged at the dividend ordinary and dividend upper rates: individuals 
- Section 14: Income charged at the dividend ordinary rate: other persons 
- Section 15: Income charged at the trust rate and the dividend trust rate 
- Section 16: Savings and dividend income to be treated as highest part of total income 
- Section 17: Repayment: tax paid at basic rate instead of starting or savings rate 
- Section 20: The starting rate limit and the basic rate limit 
- Section 21: Indexation of the starting rate limit and the basic rate limit 
 
 
 
 
- Chapter 3: Tax reductions for married couples and civil partners - Section 46: Marriages and civil partnerships on or after 5 December 2005 
- Section 47: Election by individual to transfer relief under section 45 or 46 
- Section 48: Joint election to transfer relief under section 45 or 46 
- Section 50: Procedure for making and withdrawing elections under sections 47 to 49 
- Section 54: Tax reductions in the year of marriage or entry into civil partnership 
 
 
 
 
- Section 66: Restriction on relief unless trade is commercial 
- Section 67: Restriction on relief in case of farming or market gardening 
- Section 72: Relief for individuals for losses in first 4 years of trade 
- Section 74: Restrictions on relief unless trade is commercial etc 
- Section 77: First-year allowances: partnerships with companies 
- Section 78: First-year allowances: arrangements to reduce tax liabilities 
- Section 85: Use of trade-related interest and dividends if trade profits insufficient 
- Section 89: Carry back of losses on a permanent cessation of a trade 
- Section 92: Use of trade-related interest and dividends if trade profits insufficient 
- Section 93: Mineral extraction trade and carry back of balancing allowances 
- Section 95: Foreign trades etc: reliefs only against foreign income 
- Section 101: Treating excess post-cessation trade relief as CGT loss 
 
 
- Chapter 3: Restrictions on trade loss relief for certain partners - Section 103: Meaning of “sideways relief”, “capital gains relief” and “firm” 
- Section 110: Restriction on reliefs for non-active partners in early tax years 
- Section 112: Meaning of “non-active partner” and “early tax year” etc 
- Section 114: Exclusion of amounts in calculating contribution to the firm or LLP 
- Section 115: Restrictions on reliefs for firms exploiting films 
- Section 116: Exclusion from restrictions under section 115: certain film expenditure 
 
 
 
 
- Part 5: Enterprise investment scheme - Chapter 3: General requirements 
- Chapter 4: The issuing company - Section 182: Ceasing to meet trading requirement because of administration or receivership 
- Section 183: The issuing company to carry on the qualifying business activity requirement 
- Section 193: Excluded activities: wholesale and retail distribution 
- Section 195: Excluded activities: receipt of royalties and licence fees 
- Section 197: Excluded activities: hotels and comparable establishments 
- Section 198: Excluded activities: nursing homes and residential care homes 
- Section 199: Excluded activities: provision of services or facilities for another business 
 
 
- Chapter 6: Withdrawal or reduction of EIS relief - Section 214: Value received: receipts of insignificant value 
- Section 218: Value received where there is more than one issue of shares 
- Section 219: Value received where part of share issue treated as made in previous tax year 
- Section 221: Receipts of value by and from connected persons etc 
- Section 224: Repayments etc of share capital to other persons 
- Section 225: Insignificant repayments ignored for purposes of section 224 
- Section 226: Amount of repayments etc where there is more than one issue of shares 
- Section 227: Single issue affecting more than one individual 
- Section 228: Single issue treated as made partly in previous tax year 
- Section 230: Repayment of authorised minimum within 12 months 
- Section 231: Restriction on withdrawal of relief under section 224 
 
 
 
 
- Part 6: Venture capital trusts - Section 264: No entitlement to relief if there is a linked loan 
- Section 265: No entitlement to relief which would have been lost if it had already been obtained 
- Section 266: Loss of relief if shares disposed of within 5 years 
- Section 267: Transfers of shares between spouses or civil partners 
- Section 269: Loss of relief which is subsequently found not to have been due 
- Section 270: Assessment on withdrawal or reduction of relief 
 
 
- Section 275: Alternative requirements for the giving of approval 
- Section 278: Conditions relating to value of investments: general 
- Section 279: Conditions relating to value of investments: qualifying holdings 
- Section 280: Conditions relating to qualifying holdings and eligible shares 
- Section 282: Withdrawal of VCT approval in cases for which provision made under section 280(3) 
 
 
- Chapter 4: Qualifying holdings - Section 291: The carrying on of a qualifying activity requirement 
- Section 292: Ceasing to meet requirements because of administration or receivership 
- Section 294: The relevant company to carry on the relevant qualifying activity requirement 
- Section 304: Excluded activities: wholesale and retail distribution 
- Section 306: Excluded activities: receipt of royalties and licence fees 
- Section 308: Excluded activities: hotels and comparable establishments 
- Section 309: Excluded activities: nursing homes and residential care homes 
- Section 310: Excluded activities: provision of services or facilities for another business 
 
 
- Chapter 5: Powers: winding up and mergers of VCTs - Section 315: Power to treat conditions for VCT approval as met with respect to VCT-in-liquidation 
- Section 316: Power to make provision about distributions by VCT-in-liquidation 
- Section 317: Power to facilitate disposal to VCT by VCT-in-liquidation 
- Section 318: Power in respect of periods before and after winding up 
- Section 322: Provision that may be made by regulations under section 321 
 
 
 
 
- Part 7: Community investment tax relief - Chapter 2: Accredited community development finance institutions 
- Chapter 3: Qualifying investments 
- Chapter 6: Withdrawal or reduction of CITR - Section 361: Disposal of securities or shares during 5 year period 
- Section 363: Value received by investor during 6 year period: loans 
- Section 364: Value received by investor during 6 year period: securities or shares 
- Section 365: Receipts of insignificant value to be added together 
- Section 368: Value received if there is more than one investment 
- Section 369: Effect of receipt of value on future claims for CITR 
 
 
 
 
- Section 388: Loan to buy plant or machinery for partnership use 
- Section 389: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 388 
- Section 390: Loan to buy plant or machinery for employment use 
- Section 391: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 390 
- Section 393: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 392 
- Section 396: Loan to buy interest in employee-controlled company 
- Section 397: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 396 
- Section 399: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 398 
- Section 402: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 401 
- Section 404: Eligibility requirements for interest on loans within section 403 
- Section 405: Carry back and forward of relief for interest on loans within section 403 
- Section 406: Effect of recovery of capital in the case of some loans 
- Section 407: Events counting as recovery of capital for section 406 
- Section 411: Ineligibility of interest where business is occupation of commercial woodlands 
 
 
- Chapter 3: Gifts of shares, securities and real property to charities etc 
 
 
- Part 9: Special rules about settlements and trustees - Chapter 2: General provision about settlements and trustees - Section 471: Identification of settlor following transfer covered by section 470 
- Section 472: Settlor where property becomes settled because of variation of will etc 
- Section 473: Deceased person as settlor where variation of will etc 
- Section 474: Trustees of settlement to be treated as a single and distinct person 
- Section 476: How to work out whether settlor meets condition C 
- Section 477: Sub-fund elections under Schedule 4ZA to TCGA 1992 
- Section 478: References to settled property etc in regulations 
 
 
- Chapter 3: Special rates for trustees’ income - Section 479: Trustees’ accumulated or discretionary income to be charged at special rates 
- Section 480: Meaning of “accumulated or discretionary income” 
- Section 481: Other amounts to be charged at special rates for trustees 
- Section 482: Types of amount to be charged at special rates for trustees 
- Section 483: Sums paid by personal representatives to trustees 
 
 
- Chapter 4: Trustees’ expenses and special rates for trustees 
 
 
- Part 10: Special rules about charitable trusts etc - Section 520: Gifts entitling donor to gift aid relief: income tax treated as paid 
- Section 521: Gifts entitling donor to gift aid relief: income tax liability and exemption 
- Section 522: Gifts of money from companies: income tax liability and exemption 
- Section 523: Payments from other charities: income tax liability and exemption 
- Section 526: Exemption for profits etc of small-scale trades 
- Section 527: Exemption from charges under provisions to which section 1016 applies 
- Section 528: Condition as to trading and miscellaneous incoming resources 
- Section 537: Exemption for income from estates in administration 
- Section 542: How income is attributed to the non-exempt amount 
- Section 546: Section 543(1)(f): tax year in which certain expenditure treated as incurred 
- Section 547: Section 543(1)(f): payment to body outside the UK 
- Section 548: Section 543(1)(i) and (j): investments and loans 
- Section 551: Non-charitable expenditure in substantial donor transactions 
- Section 552: Adjustment if section 551(1) and (2) applied to single transaction 
- Section 553: Section 551: certain payments and benefits to be ignored 
- Section 559: Securities which are approved charitable investments 
- Section 562: Excess expenditure treated as non-charitable expenditure of earlier years 
- Section 563: Rules for attributing excess expenditure to earlier years 
 
 
- Part 11: Manufactured payments and repos - Chapter 2: Manufactured payments - Section 575: Allowable deductions: restriction on double-counting 
- Section 576: Manufactured dividends on UK shares: Real Estate Investment Trusts 
- Section 580: Allowable deductions: restriction on double counting 
- Section 583: Manufactured payments exceeding underlying payments 
- Section 584: Manufactured payments less than underlying payments 
- Section 587: Power for manufactured payments to be eligible for relief 
- Section 589: Meaning of “gross amount”: interest and manufactured overseas dividends 
 
 
- Chapter 3: Tax credits: stock lending arrangements and repos 
- Chapter 4: Deemed manufactured payments - Section 596: Deemed manufactured payments: stock lending arrangements 
- Section 597: Deemed interest: cash collateral under stock lending arrangements 
- Section 598: Cash collateral under stock lending arrangements: supplementary 
- Section 599: Sections 597 and 598: quasi-stock lending arrangements and quasi-cash collateral 
- Section 600: Meaning of “quasi-stock lending arrangements” and “quasi-cash collateral” 
- Section 604: Deemed increase in repurchase price: price differences under repos 
- Section 605: Deemed increase in repurchase price: other income tax purposes 
 
 
 
 
- Part 12: Accrued Income Profits - Chapter 2: Accrued income profits and losses - Section 619: Meaning of “securities” and when securities are of the same kind 
- Section 622: Application of Chapter to different kinds of transfer 
- Section 628: Making accrued income profits and losses: general rules 
- Section 629: Calculating accrued income profits and losses where section 628 applies 
- Section 630: Making accrued income profits: settlement day outside interest period 
- Section 631: Amount of accrued income profits where section 630 applies 
- Section 635: Payment on transfer of variable rate securities 
- Section 636: Exception where there is a transfer to a legatee 
- Section 637: Accrued income losses treated as payments in next interest period 
- Section 638: Excluded persons: disregard of certain payments and transfers 
- Section 641: Small holdings: trustees of a disabled person’s trusts 
- Section 644: Individuals to whom the remittance basis applies 
- Section 651: Owner becoming entitled to securities as trustee 
- Section 652: Securities ceasing to be held on charitable trusts 
- Section 655: Transfers under sale and repurchase arrangements 
- Section 656: Power to modify: non-standard sale and repurchase arrangements 
- Section 659: Transfers with or without accrued interest: interest in default 
- Section 660: Transfers with unrealised interest: interest in default 
- Section 661: Successive transfers with unrealised interest in default 
- Section 662: New securities issued with extra return: special rules about payments 
- Section 663: Transfers without accrued interest to makers of manufactured payments 
- Section 664: Foreign currency securities: sterling equivalent of payments on transfers 
- Section 665: Foreign currency securities: unrealised interest payable in foreign currency 
- Section 666: Certain transfers by or to nominees or trustees treated as made by or to others 
- Section 667: Trustees’ accrued income profits treated as settlement income 
- Section 668: Relief for unremittable transfer proceeds: general 
- Section 669: Relief for unremittable transfer proceeds: section 630 profits 
 
- Chapter 3: Exemptions relating to interest on securities - Section 678: Exemptions relating to interest on securities: preliminary 
- Section 679: Interest on securities involving accrued income losses: general 
- Section 680: Interest on securities involving accrued income losses: foreign trustees 
- Section 681: Unrealised interest received by transferee after transfer 
 
 
 
- Chapter 1: Transactions in securities - Section 684: Person liable to counteraction of income tax advantage 
- Section 686: Abnormal dividends used for exemptions or reliefs (circumstance A) 
- Section 687: Deductions from profits obtained following distribution or dealings (circumstance B) 
- Section 690: Receipt of assets of relevant company (circumstance E) 
- Section 691: Meaning of “relevant company” in sections 689 and 690 
- Section 693: Abnormal dividends: the excessive return condition 
- Section 694: Abnormal dividends: the excessive accrual condition 
- Section 695: Preliminary notification that section 684 may apply 
- Section 697: Opposed notifications: determinations by tribunal 
- Section 699: Limit on amount assessed in section 689 and 690 cases 
- Section 702: Effect of clearance notification under section 701 
- Section 706: Rehearing by tribunal of appeal against counteraction notice 
- Section 707: Statement of case by tribunal for opinion of High Court or Court of Session 
- Section 709: Effect of appeals against tribunal’s determination under section 706 
- Section 712: Application of Chapter where individual within section 684 dies 
 
 
- Chapter 2: Transfer of assets abroad - Section 720: Charge to tax on income treated as arising under section 721 
- Section 721: Individuals with power to enjoy income as a result of relevant transactions 
- Section 722: When an individual has power to enjoy income of person abroad 
- Section 724: Special rules where benefit provided out of income of person abroad 
- Section 725: Reduction in amount charged where controlled foreign company involved 
- Section 727: Charge to tax on income treated as arising under section 728 
- Section 728: Individuals receiving capital sums as a result of relevant transactions 
- Section 731: Charge to tax on income treated as arising under section 732 
- Section 732: Non-transferors receiving a benefit as a result of relevant transactions 
- Section 734: Reduction in amount charged: previous capital gains tax charge 
- Section 737: Exemption: all relevant transactions post-4 December 2005 transactions 
- Section 739: Exemption: all relevant transactions pre-5 December 2005 transactions 
- Section 742: Partial exemption where later associated operations fail conditions 
- Section 744: Meaning of taking income into account in charging income tax for section 743 
- Section 745: Rates of tax applicable to income charged under sections 720 and 727 etc 
- Section 746: Deductions and reliefs where individual charged under section 720 or 727 
- Section 747: Amounts corresponding to accrued income scheme profits and related interest 
- Section 749: Restrictions on particulars to be provided by solicitors 
- Section 750: Restrictions on particulars to be provided by banks 
 
 
- Chapter 3: Transactions in land - Section 755: Charge to tax on gains from transactions in land 
- Section 756: Income treated as arising where gains obtained from some land disposals 
- Section 761: Transactions, arrangements, sales and realisations relevant for Chapter 
- Section 765: Exemption: gain attributable to period before intention to develop formed 
- Section 766: Exemption: disposals of shares in companies holding land as trading stock 
- Section 768: Recovery of tax where consideration receivable by person not assessed 
 
 
- Chapter 4: Sales of occupation income - Section 778: Income arising where capital amount other than derivative property or right obtained 
- Section 779: Income arising where derivative property or right obtained 
- Section 780: Transactions, arrangements, sales and realisations relevant for Chapter 
- Section 785: Restriction on exemption: sales of future earnings 
- Section 786: Recovery of tax where consideration receivable by person not assessed 
 
 
- Chapter 5: Avoidance involving trading losses - Section 791: Charge to tax on income treated as received under section 792 
- Section 792: Partners claiming excess sideways or capital gains relief 
- Section 793: Calculating the amount of income treated as received 
- Section 794: Meaning of “the total amount of trade losses claimed” etc 
- Section 796: Charge to tax on income treated as received under section 797 
- Section 797: Individuals claiming sideways or capital gains relief for film-related losses 
- Section 799: Meaning of “disposal of a right of the individual to profits” etc 
- Section 802: Exclusion of amounts in calculating capital contribution by a partner 
- Section 804: Charge to tax on income treated as received under section 805 
- Section 805: Partners claiming relief for licence-related trading losses 
- Section 806: Calculation of amount of income treated as received by the individual 
- Section 807: Supplementary provision relating to calculation in section 806 
 
 
 
 
- Part 14: Income tax liability: miscellaneous rules - Chapter 1: Limits on liability to income tax of non‑UK residents - Section 811: Limit on liability to income tax of non‑UK residents 
- Section 815: Limit on liability to income tax of non‑UK resident companies 
- Section 823: Treatment of transactions where requirements of 20% rule not met 
- Section 824: Application of 20% rule to collective investment schemes 
- Section 825: Meaning of “disregarded savings and investment income” 
- Section 827: Meaning of “investment manager” and “investment transaction” 
- Section 828: Transactions through brokers and investment managers 
 
 
 
- Section 837: Jointly held property: declarations of unequal beneficial interests 
 
 
- Part 15: Deduction of income tax at source - Chapter 2: Deduction by deposit-takers and building societies - Section 852: Power to make regulations disapplying section 851 
- Section 857: Investments to be treated as being or as not being relevant investments 
- Section 859: Declarations of non-UK residence: Scottish partnerships 
- Section 860: Declarations of non-UK residence: personal representatives 
- Section 864: Qualifying uncertificated eligible debt security units 
- Section 871: Power to make regulations to give effect to Chapter 
 
 
- Chapter 3: Deduction from certain payments of yearly interest 
- Chapter 4: Deduction from payments in respect of building society securities 
- Chapter 5: Deduction from payments of UK public revenue dividends 
- Chapter 6: Deduction from annual payments and patent royalties 
- Chapter 7: Deduction from other payments connected with intellectual property 
- Chapter 8: Chapters 6 and 7: Special provision in relation to royalties 
- Chapter 9: Manufactured payments - Section 918: Manufactured dividends on UK shares: Real Estate Investment Trusts 
- Section 919: Manufactured interest on UK securities: payments by UK residents etc 
- Section 920: Foreign payers of manufactured interest: the reverse charge 
- Section 921: Cases where interest on underlying securities paid gross 
- Section 922: Manufactured overseas dividends: payments by UK residents etc 
- Section 923: Foreign payers of manufactured overseas dividends: the reverse charge 
 
 
- Chapter 10: Deduction from non-commercial payments by companies 
- Chapter 11: Payments between companies etc: exception from duties to deduct 
- Chapter 14: Tax avoidance: directions for duty to deduct to apply 
- Chapter 15: Collection: deposit-takers, building societies and certain companies - Section 950: Payments otherwise than in an accounting period 
- Section 954: Proceedings begun after a set-off claim is made 
- Section 955: Proceedings begun before a set-off claim is made 
- Section 956: Assessments where section 946 payment included in return 
- Section 959: Application of Income Tax Acts provisions about time limits for assessments 
- Section 961: Relationship between Chapter and Income Tax Acts powers 
 
 
- Chapter 18: Other regimes involving the deduction of income tax at source 
- Section 976: Arrangements for payments of interest less tax or at specified net rate 
- Section 979: Designated international organisations: exceptions from duties to deduct 
- Section 980: Derivative contracts: exception from duties to deduct 
- Section 981: Foreign currency securities etc: exception from duties to deduct 
- Section 982: Income tax is calculated by reference to gross amounts 
- Section 986: Meaning of “qualifying uncertificated eligible debt security unit” 
 
 
 
 
- Part 16: Income Tax Acts definitions etc - Chapter 2: Other Income Tax Acts provisions - Section 1009: Sources of income within the charge to income tax or corporation tax 
- Section 1010: Application of Income Tax Acts to recognised investment exchanges 
- Section 1011: References to married persons, or civil partners, living together 
- Section 1012: Relationship between rules on highest part of total income 
- Section 1015: Territorial scope of charges under certain provisions to which section 1016 applies 
- Section 1016: Table of provisions to which this section applies 
 
 
 
 
- Part 17: Definitions for purposes of Act and final provisions 
- Schedule 2: Transitionals and savings - Part 5: Losses (except losses on disposal of shares) - Sideways relief: trade leasing allowances given to individuals 
- Reliefs for limited partners not to exceed contribution to the firm - Reliefs for members of LLPs not to exceed contribution to the LLP - Members of LLPs: carry-forward of losses - Reliefs for non-active partners not to exceed contribution to the firm 
- Restrictions on reliefs for non-active partners: pre-10 February 2004 events 
- Application of existing regulations under sections 114 and 802 
 
 
 
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