{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007/section-486",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007/section-486.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/3",
  "legislation_title": "Income Tax Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007",
  "path": "section/486",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "486",
  "heading": "How allowable expenses are to be set against trust rate income",
  "text": "(1) Take the following steps to determine how the allowable expenses are to be set against the trustees' trust rate income for the current tax year.\nStep 1\nReduce the allowable expenses by the proportion of those expenses (if any) which is excluded in accordance with section 487.\nReferences at Steps 3 to 6 below to the allowable expenses are references to the expenses as so reduced.\nStep 2\nIdentify the type or types of income which make up the trust rate income.\nThe possible types are dividend income, savings income , property income and other income.\nStep 3\nIf there is dividend income within subsection (2)—\n(a) gross up by reference to the dividend ordinary rate so much of the allowable expenses as is necessary to give a result equal to the amount of that income, or\n(b) if there are not enough allowable expenses to give that result, gross them all up by reference to that rate.\nThe grossed up amount is set against the dividend income within subsection (2).\nStep 4\nIf there are remaining expenses and there is dividend income not within subsection (2)—\n(a) gross up by reference to the dividend ordinary rate so much of the remaining expenses as is necessary to give a result equal to the amount of that income, or\n(b) if there are not enough remaining expenses to give that result, gross them all up by reference to that rate.\nThe grossed up amount is set against the dividend income not within subsection (2).\nFor the purposes of this step “the remaining expenses” are the allowable expenses so far as they have not been grossed up at Step 3.\nStep 5\nIf there are remaining expenses and there is savings income—\n(a) gross up by reference to the savings basic rate so much of the remaining expenses as is necessary to give a result equal to the amount of that income, or\n(b) if there are not enough remaining expenses to give that result, gross them all up by reference to that rate.\nThe grossed up amount is set against the savings income.\nFor the purposes of this step “the remaining expenses” are the allowable expenses so far as they have not been grossed up at Step 3 or 4.\nStep 5A\nIf there are remaining expenses and there is property income—\n(a) gross up by reference to the property basic rate so much of the remaining expenses as is necessary to give a result equal to the amount of that income, or\n(b) if there are not enough remaining expenses to give that result, gross them all up by reference to that rate.\nFor the purposes of this step “the remaining expenses” are the allowable expenses so far as they have not been grossed up at Step 3, 4 or 5.\nStep 6\nIf there are remaining expenses and there is other income—\n(a) gross up by reference to the basic rate so much of the remaining expenses as is necessary to give a result equal to the amount of that income, or\n(b) if there are not enough remaining expenses to give that result, gross them all up by reference to that rate.\nThe grossed up amount is set against the other income.\nFor the purposes of this step “the remaining expenses” are the allowable expenses so far as they have not been grossed up at Step 3, 4 , 5 or 5A.\n(2) Income is within this subsection so far as it is—\n(a) chargeable under Chapter 3 of Part 4 of ITTOIA 2005 (dividends etc from UK resident companies),\n(b) chargeable under Chapter 5 of that Part (stock dividends from UK resident companies), or\n(c) chargeable under Chapter 6 of that Part (release of loan to participator in close company).\n(3) If income tax would, apart from Chapter 3, be charged on any income mentioned at Steps 3 to 6 at a rate different to the rate mentioned at the step in question, for the purpose of setting any expenses against that income, gross up the expenses by reference to the different rate instead of at the rate mentioned.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 486(1) inserted (for the tax year 2027-28 and subsequent tax years) by Finance Act 2026 (c. 11), s. 6(8), Sch. 1 para. 27(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 486(1) substituted (for the tax year 2027-28 and subsequent tax years) by Finance Act 2026 (c. 11), s. 6(8), Sch. 1 para. 27(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 486(1) inserted (for the tax year 2027-28 and subsequent tax years) by Finance Act 2026 (c. 11), s. 6(8), Sch. 1 para. 27(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 486(1) substituted (for the tax year 2027-28 and subsequent tax years) by Finance Act 2026 (c. 11), s. 6(8), Sch. 1 para. 27(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/3/section/486",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:03.599581+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."
}