Section 61 Calculation if section 58 does not apply

A calculation under this section (see section 57(2)(b)) is as follows—

• Step 1 Calculate the amount of the foreign tax borne on the relevant profits by the body corporate paying the dividend.

• Step 2 Calculate how much of that amount is properly attributable to the proportion of the relevant profits represented by the dividend.

• Step 3 If under the law of the non-UK territory the dividend has been increased for tax purposes by an amount to be—

  • set off against the recipient's own tax under that law, or

  • paid to the recipient so far as it exceeds the recipient's own tax under that law,

  calculate the amount of the increase.

• Step 4 The amount of underlying tax to be taken into account as a result of the provision mentioned in section 57(1) is the amount given by the calculation at Step 2 but reduced by any amount calculated at Step 3.