Commentary on Sections Structure of Chapters Chapter 3: Dividends etc. from UK resident companies etc..Introduction Section 386: Open-ended investment company dividend distributions
1565.This section and the two sections that follow provide investors, who are liable to income tax, with the information required to determine their taxable income from the open ended investment company (OEIC). The tax provisions relevant to the OEIC, which is liable to corporation tax, are not in this Act.
1566.This section is based on section 468J of ICTA and the Open-ended Investment Companies (Tax) Regulations 1997 SI 1997/1154. These regulations provide that the tax treatment of investors (shareholders) in an OEIC generally follows the tax treatment of investors (unit holders) of an authorised unit trust (AUT). For an outline of the treatment of investors in an AUT see the commentary on section 376.
1567.The section provides for amounts that are not dividends and would otherwise be something else to be treated as dividends received by the investors. The amounts so treated are charged by section 383 and the provisions about tax credits or tax being treated as paid at sections 397 to 399 will apply as appropriate.