Section 65 — Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992: Liability for tax of trustees or personal representatives.

Liability for tax of trustees or personal representatives. 65 1 Subject to subsection (3) below, capital gains tax chargeable in respect of chargeable gains accruing to the trustees of a settlement or capital gains tax due from the personal representatives of a deceased person may be assessed and charged on and in the name of any one or more of the relevant trustees or the relevant personal representatives.

2 Subject to section 60 and any other express provision to the contrary, chargeable gains accruing to the trustees of a settlement or to the personal representatives of a deceased person, and capital gains tax chargeable on or in the name of such trustees or personal representatives, shall not be regarded for the purposes of this Act as accruing to, or chargeable on, any other person, nor shall any trustee or personal representative be regarded for the purposes of this Act as an individual.

3 Where section 80 applies as regards the trustees of a settlement (“the migrating trustees”), nothing in subsection (1) above shall enable any person—

a who ceased to be a trustee of the settlement before the end of the relevant period, and b who shows that, when he ceased to be a trustee of the settlement, there was no proposal that the trustees might cease to be resident in the United Kingdom, to be assessed and charged to any capital gains tax which is payable by the migrating trustees by virtue of section 80(2).

4 In this section— “ the relevant period ” has the same meaning as in section 82; “ the relevant trustees ”, in relation to any chargeable gains, means the trustees in the year of assessment in which the chargeable gains accrue and any subsequent trustees of the settlement, and “ the relevant personal representatives ” has a corresponding meaning.