http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/11/section/53Finance Act 2026enStatute Law Database2026-04-17Expert Participation2026-04-01 Finance Act 2026Pt. 15The Vaping Products (Production, Duty Stamps and Commencement) Regulations 2026reg. 19reg. 1(3) Part 1531This section applies in relation to an offshore income gain arising to the trustees of a settlement in a case where Chapter 2 of Part 13 of ITA 2007 (transfer of assets abroad) applies in relation to that gain for the tax year 2025-26 or any subsequent tax year because of the amendments made by section 52.2If the offshore income gain arose in a tax year before the tax year 2025-26 and, by reason of that offshore income gain or a part of it, an offshore income gain was treated as arising in a tax year before the tax year 2025-26 to an individual under paragraphs (2) to (5) of regulation 20 of the Offshore Funds (Tax) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3001)—aChapter 2 of Part 13 of ITA 2007 is to be treated as not applying in relation to the offshore income gain arising to the trustees or that part of that gain, andbreferences in section 734 of ITA 2007 to chargeable gains treated as accruing to an individual are to be treated as including the offshore income gain treated as arising to the individual.3An individual is not chargeable to income tax under Chapter 2 of Part 13 of ITA 2007 on income treated as arising to the individual under section 732 of ITA 2007 by reason of the offshore income gain to the extent that the income, without the amendments made by section 52(1) and (2)(b)—awould have been treated as arising to that individual under paragraphs (2) to (5) of regulation 20 of the Offshore Funds (Tax) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3001), andbwould have been non-chargeable income (see subsections (4), (5) and (6)).4The income would have been non-chargeable income if, without the amendments made by section 52(1) and (2)(b)—athe income would have been treated as arising by reason of—ithe matching of a capital payment received (or treated as received) by the individual before 6 April 2008 with an offshore income gain arising on or after 6 April 2025, oriithe matching of a capital payment received (or treated as received) by the individual on or after 6 April 2025 with an offshore income gain arising before 6 April 2008, andbparagraph 100 of Schedule 7 to FA 2008 would have applied to the income.5The income would have been non-chargeable income to the extent that, without the amendments made by section 52(1) and (2)(b), it would have exceeded the relevant proportion of income—awhich would have been treated as arising to the individual by reason of—ithe matching of a capital payment received (or treated as received) by the individual on or after 6 April 2008 with an offshore income gain arising on or after 6 April 2025, oriithe matching of a capital payment received (or treated as received) by the individual on or after 6 April 2025 with an offshore income gain arising on or after 6 April 2008, andbto which paragraph 101 of Schedule 7 to FA 2008 would have applied,and, for that purpose, “relevant proportion” has the meaning given by sub-paragraphs (9) to (18) of paragraph 126 of that Schedule as they would have been modified by sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 101 of that Schedule.6The income would have been non-chargeable income to the extent that, without the amendments made by section 52(1) and (2)(b), it would have exceeded the relevant proportion of income—awhich would have been treated as arising to the individual by reason of—ithe matching of a capital payment received (or treated as received) by the individual on or after 6 April 2008 with an offshore income gain arising on or after 6 April 2025, oriithe matching of a capital payment received (or treated as received) by the individual on or after 6 April 2025 with an offshore income gain arising on or after 6 April 2008,bto which paragraph 102 of Schedule 7 to FA 2008 would have applied, andcto which paragraph 101 of that Schedule would not have applied,and, for that purpose, “relevant proportion” has the meaning given by sub-paragraphs (4) to (7) of paragraph 127 of that Schedule as they would have been modified by sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 102 of that Schedule.7Subsection (3) does not prevent Chapter 2 of Part 13 of ITA 2007 from having effect as though the income not chargeable to tax under that subsection had been charged to tax under section 731 of that Act.8Accordingly—ain the application of section 733(1) of ITA 2007 to the individual for subsequent tax years, the amount of that income will be deducted at Step 2 and at paragraph (a) of Step 5, andbin the application of section 733(1) of ITA 2007 to any other individual for subsequent tax years, the amount of that income will be deducted at paragraph (b) of Step 5.9In section 733 of ITA 2007, after subsection (2D) insert—2ESee subsections (7) and (8) of section 53 of FA 2026 (offshore income gains: savings relating to amendments made by section 52 of that Act) for special provision about income that is treated as arising under section 732 but that is not chargeable to income tax under subsection (3) of that section.10This section—ais to be treated as having come into force on 6 April 2025;bhas effect for the tax year 2025-26 and subsequent tax years.