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Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

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13 Visiting performers

(1) This section applies if an entertainer, sportsman or sportswoman of a prescribed description (a “performer”)— (a) is non-UK resident in a tax year, and (b) performs a relevant activity in the United Kingdom in the tax year. (2) If a payment or transfer connected with the relevant activity is made, the performer is treated for income tax purposes as performing the relevant activity in the course of a trade, profession or vocation carried on in the United Kingdom. (3) It does not matter whether the payment or transfer is made to the performer or anyone else. (4) Subsection (2) does not apply— (a) so far as the performer would otherwise be performing the relevant activity in the course of a trade, profession or vocation carried on in the United Kingdom, or (b) if the relevant activity is performed in the course of an employment or office. (5) If a payment or transfer connected with the relevant activity is made to — (a) a person other than the performer, and (b) that person is of a prescribed description, the payment or transfer is treated for income tax purposes as made instead to the performer in the course of a trade, profession or vocation carried on in the United Kingdom. (6) Subsection (5) does not apply in such circumstances as may be prescribed. (7) If— (a) income tax is chargeable on profits arising from payments or transfers (made to any person), and (b) the payments or transfers are connected with the relevant activity, the tax is charged as if the payments or transfers were received in the course of a separate trade, profession or vocation (distinct from any other trade, profession or vocation carried on by the performer). (8) In this section and section 14— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations, “regulations” means regulations made by the Treasury, “relevant activity” means an activity of a prescribed description, and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and a payment or transfer is connected with a relevant activity if it has a connection of the prescribed kind with that activity. (9) In this section and section 14— (a) references to a payment include references to a payment by way of loan of money, and (b) references to a transfer do not include references to a transfer of money but, subject to that, include references to— (i) a temporary transfer (as by way of loan), and (ii) a transfer of a right (whether or not a right to receive money). (10) This section does not apply to payments or transfers of a kind prescribed in regulations under section 966(6) of ITA 2007.

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13 Visiting performers

(1) This section applies if an entertainer, sportsman or sportswoman of a prescribed description (a “performer”)— (a) is non-UK resident in a tax year, and (b) performs a relevant activity in the United Kingdom in the tax year. (2) If a payment or transfer connected with the relevant activity is made, the performer is treated for income tax purposes as performing the relevant activity in the course of a trade, profession or vocation carried on in the United Kingdom. (3) It does not matter whether the payment or transfer is made to the performer or anyone else. (4) Subsection (2) does not apply— (a) so far as the performer would otherwise be performing the relevant activity in the course of a trade, profession or vocation carried on in the United Kingdom, or (b) if the relevant activity is performed in the course of an employment or office. (5) If a payment or transfer connected with the relevant activity is made to — (a) a person other than the performer, and (b) that person is of a prescribed description, the payment or transfer is treated for income tax purposes as made instead to the performer in the course of a trade, profession or vocation carried on in the United Kingdom. (6) Subsection (5) does not apply in such circumstances as may be prescribed. (7) If— (a) income tax is chargeable on profits arising from payments or transfers (made to any person), and (b) the payments or transfers are connected with the relevant activity, the tax is charged as if the payments or transfers were received in the course of a separate trade, profession or vocation (distinct from any other trade, profession or vocation carried on by the performer). (8) In this section and section 14— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations, “regulations” means regulations made by the Treasury, “relevant activity” means an activity of a prescribed description, and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and a payment or transfer is connected with a relevant activity if it has a connection of the prescribed kind with that activity. (9) In this section and section 14— (a) references to a payment include references to a payment by way of loan of money, and (b) references to a transfer do not include references to a transfer of money but, subject to that, include references to— (i) a temporary transfer (as by way of loan), and (ii) a transfer of a right (whether or not a right to receive money). (10) This section does not apply to payments or transfers of a kind prescribed in regulations under section 966(6) of ITA 2007.

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