Section 1 Overview of Income Tax Acts

United Kingdom

(1)

The following Acts make provision about income tax—

(a)

ITEPA 2003 (which is about charges to tax on employment income, pension income and social security income F1and makes provision for the high income child benefit F2and winter fuel payment charge),

(b)

ITTOIA 2005 (which is about charges to tax on trading income, property income, savings and investment income and some other miscellaneous income), and

(c)

this Act (which contains the other main provisions about income tax).

(2)

There are also provisions about income tax elsewhere: see in particular—

(a)

F3Part 2 of TIOPA 2010 (double taxation relief),

(b)

CAA 2001 (allowances for capital expenditure), and

(c)

Part 4 of FA 2004 (pension schemes etc).

(3)

Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) defines “the Income Tax Acts” (as all enactments relating to income tax).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 1(1)(a) inserted (17.7.2012) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 7 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2012 (c. 14), Sch. 1 para. 6(2)
F2: Words in s. 1(1)(a) inserted (for the tax year 2025-26 and subsequent tax years) by Finance Act 2026 (c. 11), Sch. 10 paras. 4(2), 5
F3: Words in s. 1(2)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 381(1) of the amending Act) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), s. 381(1), Sch. 8 para. 72 (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22)