Income Tax Act 2007

429 Giving through self-assessment return U.K.

(1) This section applies if—

(a) as a result of a personal return for a tax year being made by an individual, a tax repayment for one or more tax years falls to be made to the individual, and

(b) conditions A and B are met.

(2) Condition A is that the personal return contains a single direction, in the form specified in the return, requiring—

(a) the whole of the tax repayment, or so much of it as does not exceed a specified amount, to be paid on the individual's behalf as a gift to a single listed charity which is specified in the return, and

(b) the gift to be treated as a qualifying donation for the purposes of this Chapter.

(3) Condition B is that the gift meets Conditions A to G mentioned in section 416.

(4) The gift is to be treated for the purposes of this Chapter as a qualifying donation made by the individual at the time the payment is received by the charity.

(5) In this section—

• “listed charity” means a charity which, at the time the personal return is made, is included (at the request of the charity) in a list maintained for the purposes of this section by the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs,

• “personal return” means a return under section 8 of TMA 1970,

• “tax repayment” means a repayment (after any set-off that falls to be made against the individual's liabilities) of either or both of—

  (a)

  income tax or amounts paid on account of income tax, and

  (b)

  capital gains tax,

  and, for the purposes of subsection (2)(a), includes any repayment supplement (within the meaning of section 824 of ICTA or section 283 of TCGA 1992).