First Previous (CHAPTER 2 Capital gains tax) Next (CHAPTER 2 Capital gains tax)

39 1997

TAXES CONSOLIDATION ACT, 1997

PART 45

Charging and Assessing of Non-Residents

CHAPTER 1

Income tax and corporation tax

Restrictions on certain reliefs.

[ITA67 s153; FA74 s6(2) and Sch 1 Pt I par1(vii) (d); FA94 s155; FA96 s132(1) and Sch5 PtI par1(7)]

1032. —(1) Except where otherwise provided by this section, an individual not resident in the State shall not be entitled to any of the allowances, deductions, reliefs or reductions under the provisions specified in the Table to section 458 .

(2) Where an individual not resident in the State proves to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners that he or she—

(a) is a citizen of Ireland,

(b) is resident outside the State for the sake or on account of his or her health or the health of a member of his or her family resident with him or her or because of some physical infirmity or disease in himself or herself or any such member of his or her family, and that previous to such residence outside the State he or she was resident in the State,

(c) is a citizen, subject or national of another Member State of the European Communities or of a country of which the citizens, subjects or nationals are for the time being exempted by an order under section 10 of the Aliens Act, 1935 , from any provision of, or of an aliens order under, that Act, or

(d) is a person to whom one of the paragraphs (a) to (e) of the proviso to section 24 of the Finance Act, 1920, applied in respect of the year ending on the 5th day of April, 1935, or any previous year of assessment,

then, subsection (1) shall not apply to that individual, but the amount of any allowance, deduction or other benefit mentioned in that subsection shall, in the case of that individual, be reduced to an amount which bears the same proportion to the total amount of that allowance, deduction or other benefit as the portion of his or her income subject to Irish income tax bears to his or her total income from all sources (including income not subject to Irish income tax).

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), where an individual not resident in the State proves to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners that the individual is a resident of another Member State of the European Communities and that the proportion which the portion of the individual's income subject to Irish income tax bears to the individual's total income from all sources (including income not subject to Irish income tax) is 75 per cent or greater, subsection (1) or, as the case may be, subsection (2) shall not apply to that individual and he or she shall be entitled to the allowance, deduction or other benefit mentioned in subsection (1).

Entitlement to tax credit in respect of distributions.

[CTA76 s160; FA97 s146(1) and Sch9 PtI par10(8)]

1033. —An individual who, having made a claim in that behalf, is by virtue of subsection (2) or (3) of section 1032 entitled to relief in respect of any year of assessment under any of the provisions specified in the Table to section 458 shall be entitled to a tax credit in respect of any distribution received by him or her in that year to the same extent as if he or she were resident in the State, and section 153 (1) shall not apply in relation to such an individual.

Assessment.

[ITA67 s200]

1034. —A person not resident in the State, whether a citizen of Ireland or not, shall be assessable and chargeable to income tax in the name of any trustee, guardian, or committee of such person, or of any factor, agent, receiver, branch or manager, whether such factor, agent, receiver, branch or manager has the receipt of the profits or gains or not, in the like manner and to the like amount as such non-resident person would be assessed and charged if such person were resident in the State and in the actual receipt of such profits or gains; but, in the case of a partnership, the precedent partner (within the meaning of section 1007 ) or, if there is no precedent partner, the factor, agent, receiver, branch or manager shall be deemed to be the agent of a non-resident partner.

Profits from agencies, etc.

[ITA67 s201]

1035. —A non-resident person shall be assessable and chargeable to income tax in respect of any profits or gains arising, whether directly or indirectly, through or from any factorship, agency, receivership, branch or management, and shall be so assessable and chargeable in the name of the factor, agent, receiver, branch or manager.

Control over residents.

[ITA67 s202]

1036. —Where a non-resident person, not being a citizen of Ireland or an Irish firm or company, or a branch of a non-resident person, carries on business with a resident person, and it appears to the inspector that, owing to the close connection between the resident person and the non-resident person and to the substantial control exercised by the non-resident person over the resident person, the course of business between those persons can be so arranged and is so arranged that the business done by the resident person in pursuance of that person's connection with the non-resident person produces to the resident person either no profits or less than the ordinary profits which might be expected to arise from that business, then, the non-resident person shall be assessable and chargeable to income tax in the name of the resident person as if the resident person were an agent of the non-resident person.

Charge on percentage of turnover.

[ITA67 s203; F(MP) A68 s3(2) and Sch PtI]

1037. —(1) Where it appears to the inspector or on appeal to the Appeal Commissioners that the true amount of the profits or gains of any non-resident person chargeable with income tax in the name of a resident person cannot in any case be readily ascertained, the non-resident person may, if it is thought fit by the inspector or the Appeal Commissioners, be assessed and charged on a percentage of the turnover of the business done by the non-resident person through or with the resident person in whose name the non-resident person is so chargeable, and in such a case the provisions of the Income Tax Acts relating to the delivery of statements by persons acting on behalf of others shall extend so as to require returns to be given by the resident person of the business so done by the non-resident person through or with the resident person in the same manner as statements of profits or gains to be charged are to be delivered by persons acting for incapacitated or non-resident persons.

(2) The amount of the percentage under subsection (1) shall in each case be determined, having regard to the nature of the business, by the inspector by whom the assessment on the percentage basis is made, subject to appeal to the Appeal Commissioners.

(3) Where either the resident person or the non-resident person is dissatisfied with the percentage determined either in the first instance or by the Appeal Commissioners on appeal, that person may within 4 months of that determination require the inspector or the Appeal Commissioners, as the case may be, to refer the question of the percentage to a referee or board of referees to be appointed for the purpose by the Minister for Finance, and the decision of the referee or board of referees shall be final and conclusive.

Merchanting profit.

[ITA67 s204; F(MP) A 68 s3(2) and Sch PtI]

1038. —Where a non-resident person is chargeable to income tax in the name of any branch, manager, agent, factor or receiver in respect of any profits or gains arising from the sale of goods or produce manufactured or produced outside the State by the non-resident person, the person in whose name the non-resident person is so chargeable may, if that person thinks fit, apply to—

(a) the inspector, or

(b) in case of an appeal, to the Appeal Commissioners,

to have the assessment to income tax in respect of those profits or gains made or amended on the basis of the profits which might reasonably be expected to have been earned by—

(i) a merchant, or

(ii) where the goods are retailed by or on behalf of the manufacturer or producer, by a retailer of the goods sold,

who had bought from the manufacturer or producer direct and, on proof to the satisfaction of the inspector or, as the case may be, the Appeal Commissioners of the amount of the profits on that basis, the assessment shall be made or amended accordingly.

Restrictions on chargeability.

[ITA67 s205]

1039. —(1) Nothing in this Chapter shall render a non-resident person chargeable in the name of—

(a) a broker or general commission agent, or

(b) an agent, not being—

(i) an authorised person carrying on the regular agency of the non-resident person, or

(ii) a person chargeable as if that person were an agent in pursuance of this Chapter,

in respect of profits or gains arising from sales or transactions carried out through such a broker or agent.

(2) The fact that a non-resident person executes sales or carries out transactions with other non-residents in circumstances which would make that person chargeable in pursuance of this Chapter in the name of a resident person shall not of itself make that person chargeable in respect of profits arising from those sales or transactions.

Application of sections 1034 to 1039 for purposes of corporation tax.

[CTA76 s8(4)]

1040. —Without prejudice to the general application of income tax procedure to corporation tax, the provisions of this Chapter relating to the assessment and charge of income tax on persons not resident in the State, in so far as they are applicable to tax chargeable on a company, shall apply with any necessary modifications in relation to corporation tax chargeable on companies not resident in the State.

Rents payable to non-residents.

[FA69 s25]

1041. —(1) Section 1034 shall not apply to—

(a) tax on profits or gains chargeable to tax under Case V of Schedule D, or

(b) tax on any of the profits or gains chargeable under Case IV of Schedule D which arise under the terms of a lease, but to a person other than the lessor, or which otherwise arise out of any disposition or contract such that if they arose to the person making it they would be chargeable under Case V of Schedule D,

where payment is made (whether in the State or elsewhere) directly to a person whose usual place of abode is outside the State; but section 238 shall apply in relation to the payment as it applies to other payments, being annual payments charged with tax under Schedule D and not payable out of profits or gains brought into charge to tax.

(2) Where by virtue of subsection (1) the tax chargeable for any year of assessment on a person's profits or gains chargeable to tax under either or both of the Cases referred to in that subsection would but for this subsection be greater than the tax which would be chargeable on such profits or gains but for subsection (1), then, on a claim in that behalf being made, relief shall be given from the excess, whether by repayment or otherwise.