{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2004/section-244AA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2004/section-244AA.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/12",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2004",
  "path": "section/244AA",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "244AA",
  "heading": "Overseas transfer charge: introduction",
  "text": "A charge to income tax, to be known as the overseas transfer charge, arises under the following sections—\n(a) section 244AC (overseas transfer charge: transfers where no exclusion applies);\n(b) section 244IA (overseas transfer charge: transfers exceeding available allowance).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 244A-244N and cross-heading inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 4 para. 25 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2017 (c. 10), Sch. 4 para. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 244AA-244AC substituted for s. 244A (for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by Finance Act 2024 (c. 3), Sch. 9 paras. 45, 124 (with Sch. 9 paras. 125-132A) (as amended by S.I. 2024/356, regs. 1, 4; and (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 17)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/12/section/244AA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:16.113356+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}