Commentary on Sections Overview Section 518: Overview of Part
1551.This section sets out the scope of the Part and provides signposts to rules about the tax treatment of gifts made to charitable trusts, exemptions from charges to tax under ICTA or ITTOIA, and the restrictions on when exemptions can apply. It is new.
1552.The exemptions for various types of income received by charitable trusts are set out following (so far as relevant) the order in which the types of income concerned are set out in ITTOIA. This order is also followed in Part 4 of this Act (loss relief).
1553.The exemptions are effected by saying that the “income is not taken into account in calculating total income”. The expression “no liability to income tax arises” (used in Part 6 of ITTOIA, where it is supported by section 783(1) of that Act) would go too far in relation to the exemptions provided in this Part as it may be necessary to have regard to the income for certain income tax purposes.