Section 667 — Income Tax Act 2007: Trustees' accrued income profits treated as settlement income

Trustees' accrued income profits treated as settlement income 667 1 If the trustees of a settlement are treated as making qualifying accrued income profits, those profits are to be taken to be income arising under the settlement for the purposes of Chapter 5 of Part 5 of ITTOIA 2005 (settlements: amounts treated as income of settlor).

2 Subsection (3) applies if the trustees of a settlement—

a are non-UK resident ... throughout a tax year in which an interest period or part of an interest period falls, and b would have been treated as making an amount or an additional amount of qualifying accrued income profits in the interest period if the trustees had been UK resident ... during a part of each such tax year.

3 The amount or additional amount of qualifying accrued income profits that the trustees would have been treated as making is to be taken to be income arising under the settlement for the purposes of Chapter 5 of Part 5 of ITTOIA 2005.

4 In this section—

a “ qualifying accrued income profits ” means accrued income profits which are treated as made—

i under section 628(5), or ii under section 630(2) in respect of a transfer of variable rate securities, and b in any case where there are no trustees of a settlement, references to such trustees are to any persons entitled to securities comprised in the settlement.

5 In the case of qualifying accrued income profits within subsection (4)(a)(ii)—

a the reference in subsection (2)(a) to an interest period is to the period—

i beginning with the day after the last day of the only or last interest period of the securities, and ii ending with the settlement day, and b the reference in subsection (2)(b) to making qualifying accrued income profits in the interest period is to be read as making them in the tax year in which settlement day falls.