{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007/section-979",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007/section-979.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/3",
  "legislation_title": "Income Tax Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007",
  "path": "section/979",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "979",
  "heading": "Designated international organisations: exceptions from duties to deduct",
  "text": "(1) The Treasury may by order designate for the purposes of this section any international organisation of which the United Kingdom is a member.\n(2) The duty to deduct under section 874 (duty to deduct from certain payments of yearly interest) does not apply to a payment of interest made by—\n(a) an organisation designated under subsection (1), or\n(b) a partnership of which an organisation so designated is a member.\n(3) None of the duties to deduct under Chapters 6, 7 (deduction from annual payments, patent royalties and other payments connected with intellectual property) and 14 (directions for duty to deduct to apply in tax avoidance cases) apply to a payment made by an organisation designated under subsection (1).\n(4) The duties to deduct under sections 919(2) and 922(2) do not apply in a case where the payer of the manufactured interest or (as the case may be) the manufactured overseas dividend is an organisation designated under subsection (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 15 modified (with effect in accordance with s. 1329(1) of the amending Act) by Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4), ss. 551(4), 1329(1) (with Pts. 1, 2, Sch. 2 para. 78)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/3/section/979",
    "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."
}