Section 500: Section 496(1)(d): payment to body outside the UK
1536.This section provides interpretative material about payments to a body outside the United Kingdom. It is based on section 506(3) of ICTA. The corresponding rule for income tax is in section 547 of ITA.
1537.The section makes it clear that the onus is on the charitable company to ensure that any payments to a body outside the United Kingdom are applied for charitable purposes. Otherwise the charitable company must classify the payments as “non-charitable expenditure”.
