Commentary on Sections Structure of Chapters Overview Section 373: Open-ended investment company interest distributions
1515.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.
1516.This section is based on section 468L 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.
1517.The section provides for amounts that are not interest and would otherwise be something else to be treated as interest received by the investors. The amounts so treated are charged to tax by section 369 and are subject to the deduction of tax rules in section 349 of ICTA as amended by section 468L(4) of ICTA.