Section 508 | Provision not at arm's length: exclusion of arrangements from sections 503 to 507

(1)Arrangements to which this section applies are not—

(a)purchase and resale arrangements,

(b)diminishing shared ownership arrangements,

(c)deposit arrangements,

(d)profit share agency arrangements, or

(e)investment bond arrangements.

(2)This section applies to arrangements if—

(a)apart from this section they would be alternative finance arrangements,

(b)subsection (3) or (5) of section 147 of TIOPA 2010 (provision not at arm's length) requires the profits and losses of a person who is a party to the arrangements to be calculated for tax purposes as if the arm's length provision referred to in that subsection had been made or imposed, rather than in accordance with the arrangements,^F1F2

(c)any person who is an affected person for the purposes of Part 4 of TIOPA 2010 (“the affected person”) is entitled to—^F3

(i)relevant return in relation to the arrangements, or

(ii)an amount representing relevant return in relation to them, and

(d)the affected person is not subject—

(i)to income tax or corporation tax, or

(ii)to any corresponding tax under the law of a territory outside the United Kingdom,

on the relevant return or the amount representing it.

(3)In this section “relevant return”, in relation to arrangements, means any amount which would be alternative finance return if the arrangements were alternative finance arrangements.

(4)For the meaning of “alternative finance return”, see sections 511 to 513.