Schedule 6 | Taxation of savings at the lower rate

The Taxes Management Act 1970 (c. 9)

(1)Repealed^F1

The Taxes Act 1988^F2F3

(2)Repealed^F1

(3)Repealed^F1

(1)Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, in subsection (1)(b) of section 51B of that Act (periodic returns of tax on gilts), for “basic rate” there shall be substituted “ lower rate ”.^F2

(2)Sub-paragraph (1) above has effect for the purposes only of the exercise on or after the day on which this Act is passed of the Treasury’s power to make regulations under that section; but that power may be exercised on or after that day for the purpose of making provision, with retrospective effect, on the basis that the assumption to be applied in relation to all payments made on or after 6th April 1996 was an assumption that such payments bear tax at the lower rate.^F2

(5)In paragraph (c) of section 246D(2) of that Act (application of section 207A to certain foreign income dividends), for the words from “as income” to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted “ (without prejudice to paragraph (a) above) as if it were income to which section 1A applies; ”.^F4

(6)Repealed^F5

(7)Repealed^F6

(8)Repealed^F7

(9)Repealed^F8

(1)Repealed^F9

(2)Repealed^F9

(3)Sections 468E and 468EE of that Act (rate of corporation tax on authorised unit trusts) shall not apply in relation to any accounting period ending after 31st March 1996 except so far as those sections relate to the financial year 1995.

(11)Repealed^F10

(12)Repealed^F11

(13)Repealed^F11

(14)Repealed^F11

(15)Repealed^F11

(16)Repealed^F12

(17)Repealed^F13

(1)In subsection (1) of section 737 of that Act (deductions from manufactured payments), after “shall apply” there shall be inserted “ (subject to subsection (1A) below) ”, and for subsection (1A) of that section there shall be substituted the following subsection—^F3

(1A)The deduction of tax which is deemed to have been made under subsection (1) above shall be taken to have been made at the lower rate as if the deemed annual payment were income to which section 1A applied; and—

(a)the reference to the applicable rate in subsection (1) of section 350, so far as it has effect by virtue of subsection (1) above, and

(b)Schedule 16, so far as it so has effect,

shall be construed accordingly.

(2)This paragraph has effect in relation to payments on or after 6th April 1996.^F3

(19)In section 737C(6) of that Act (computation of amount of deemed manufactured interest), for “basic” there shall be substituted “ lower ”.^F14

(20)Repealed^F15

(21)Repealed^F16

(22)Repealed^F17

(23)In section 822(1) of that Act (over-deductions from interest on loan capital etc. made before the passing of annual Act where basic rate for the year is lower than in the previous year), for “basic rate lower” there shall be substituted “ lower rate less ”.

(24)Repealed^F18

(25)Repealed^F19

The Finance Act 1989 (c. 26)

(26)Repealed^F20

The Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12)

(27)In section 4(3A) of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (disregard of income chargeable at lower rate in accordance with section 207A of the Taxes Act 1988), for “section 207A” there shall be substituted “ section 1A ”.^F21

Commencement of Schedule

(28)Subject to any express provisions as to commencement that are contained in the preceding provisions of this Schedule, this Schedule has effect for the year 1996-97 and subsequent years of assessment.