Section 577A | Territorial scope of Part 5 charges: receipts from intellectual property

(1)References in section 577 to income which is from a source in the United Kingdom include income arising where—

(a)a royalty or other sum is paid in respect of intellectual property by a person who is non-UK resident, and

(b)the payment is made in connection with a trade carried on by that person through a permanent establishment in the United Kingdom.

(2)Subsection (3) applies where a royalty or other sum is paid in respect of intellectual property by a person who is non-UK resident in connection with a trade carried on by that person only in part through a permanent establishment in the United Kingdom.

(3)The payment referred to in subsection (2) is to be regarded for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) as made in connection with a trade carried on through a permanent establishment in the United Kingdom to such extent as is just and reasonable, having regard to all the circumstances.

(4)In determining for the purposes of section 577 whether income arising is from a source in the United Kingdom, no regard is to be had to arrangements the main purpose of which, or one of the main purposes of which, is to avoid the effect of the rule in subsection (1).

(5)In this section—

“arrangements” includes any agreement, understanding, scheme, transaction or series of transactions (whether or not legally enforceable);

“intellectual property” has the same meaning as in section 579;

“permanent establishment”—

(a)in relation to a company, is to be read (by virtue of section 1007A of ITA 2007) in accordance with Chapter 2 of Part 24 of CTA 2010, and

(b)in relation to any other person, is to be read in accordance with that Chapter but as if references in that Chapter to a company were references to that person.