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(1) This section applies if an entertainer, sportsman or sportswoman of a prescribed description (a “performer”)—
(a) is non-UK resident in a tax year, and
(b) performs a relevant activity in the United Kingdom in the tax year.
(2) If a payment or transfer connected with the relevant activity is made, the performer is treated for income tax purposes as performing the relevant activity in the course of a trade, profession or vocation carried on in the United Kingdom.
(3) It does not matter whether the payment or transfer is made to the performer or anyone else.
(4) Subsection (2) does not apply—
(a) so far as the performer would otherwise be performing the relevant activity in the course of a trade, profession or vocation carried on in the United Kingdom, or
(b) if the relevant activity is performed in the course of an employment or office.
(5) If a payment or transfer connected with the relevant activity is made to—
(a) a person other than the performer, and
(b) that person is of a prescribed description,
the payment or transfer is treated for income tax purposes as made instead to the performer in the course of a trade, profession or vocation carried on in the United Kingdom.
(6) Subsection (5) does not apply in such circumstances as may be prescribed.
(7) If—
(a) income tax is chargeable on profits arising from payments or transfers (made to any person), and
(b) the payments or transfers are connected with the relevant activity,
the tax is charged as if the payments or transfers were received in the course of a separate trade, profession or vocation (distinct from any other trade, profession or vocation carried on by the performer).
(8) In this section and section 14—
“payment” means a payment from which income tax is to be deducted under section 555(2) of ICTA,
“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations,
“regulations” means regulations made by the Treasury,
“relevant activity” means an activity of a prescribed description, and
“transfer” means a transfer in respect of which income tax is to be accounted for under section 555(3) of ICTA,
and a payment or transfer is connected with a relevant activity if it has a connection of the prescribed kind with that activity.
This Act comes into force on 6 April 2005 and has effect, for the purposes of income tax for the year 2005–06 and subsequent tax years, and for the purposes of corporation tax for accounting periods ending after 5 April 2005: see s 883; for transitional provisions and savings see Sch 2 hereto.
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