Part 8Foreign income: special rules

Chapter 1Introduction

830Meaning of “relevant foreign income”

(1)

In this Act “relevant foreign income” means income which arises from a source outside the United Kingdom and is chargeable under any of the provisions specified in subsection (2).

(2)

The provisions are—

(a)

Chapter 2 of Part 2 (trade profits),

(b)

Chapter 17 of Part 2 (adjustment income),

(c)

Chapter 3 of Part 3 (profits of property business),

(d)

Chapter 11 of Part 3 (overseas property income),

(e)

Chapter 2 of Part 4 (interest),

(f)

Chapter 4 of Part 4 (dividends from non-UK resident companies),

(g)

Chapter 7 of Part 4 (purchased life annuity payments),

(h)

Chapter 8 of Part 4 (profits from deeply discounted securities),

(i)

Chapter 13 of Part 4 (sales of foreign dividend coupons),

(j)

section 579 (royalties and other income from intellectual property),

(k)

Chapter 3 of Part 5 (films and sound recordings: non-trading businesses),

(l)

Chapter 4 of Part 5 (certain telecommunication rights: non-trading income),

(m)

section 649 (estate income),

(n)

Chapter 7 of Part 5 (annual payments not otherwise charged), and

(o)

Chapter 8 of Part 5 (income not otherwise charged).

(3)

But “relevant foreign income” does not include income chargeable as a result of section 844 (unremittable income: income charged on withdrawal of relief after source ceases).

(4)

For the treatment of other income as relevant foreign income, see—

(a)

section 857(3) (a partner’s share of a firm’s trading income),

(b)

paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 3 to the Commonwealth Development Corporation Act 1999 (c. 20) (distributions by the Commonwealth Development Corporation),

(c)

section 575(3) of ITEPA 2003 (taxable pension income: foreign pensions),

(d)

section 613(4) of that Act (taxable pension income: foreign annuities),

(e)

section 631(3) of that Act (pre-1973 pensions paid under the Overseas Pensions Act 1973 (c. 21)),

(f)

section 635(4) of that Act (taxable pension income: foreign voluntary annual payments), and

(g)

section 679(2) of that Act (taxable social security income: foreign benefits).