Statutory Instruments
Corporation Tax
Income Tax
Made
13th July 2016
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of July 2016
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
A draft of this Order was laid before the House of Commons in accordance with section 5(2) of the Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010(1) and approved by a resolution of that House.
Accordingly, Her Majesty, in exercising the powers conferred upon Her by section 2 of the Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, orders as follows-
1. This Order may be cited as the Double Taxation Relief (Jersey) Order 2016.
2.-(1) It is declared that there has been made with the Government of Jersey-
(a)the Exchange of Letters set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order, and
(b)the Arrangement referred to in the Exchange of Letters, as set out in Part 2 of that Schedule, which varies the arrangements set out in the Schedule to the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 1952(2), as amended by the arrangements set out in-
(i)the Schedule to the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 1994(3),
(ii)the Schedule to the Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Jersey) Order 2009(4), and
(iii)the Schedule to the Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Jersey) Order 2015(5),
with a view to affording relief from double taxation in relation to income tax or corporation tax and taxes of a similar character imposed by the laws of either party.
(2) It is further declared that it is expedient that the Arrangement should have effect.
Ceri King
Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council
Article 2
(This note is not part of the Order)
The Schedule to the Order contains an Exchange of Letters between the United Kingdom and Jersey concerning an Arrangement amending the 1952 Arrangement between the two parties for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income, which was scheduled to the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 1952 (S.I. 1952/1216) and subsequently amended in 1994, 2009 and 2015. The Schedule also contains the text of the Arrangement referred to in the Exchange of Letters.
Article 2 provides that it is expedient that the Arrangement should have effect. The Arrangement relates to the avoidance of double taxation and varies the arrangements set out in the Schedule to the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 1952, as amended.
The Arrangement will enter into force on the date of the later of the notifications of each territory of the completion of its legislative procedures. It will take effect in the United Kingdom and Jersey from 16 March 2016.
The date of entry into force will, in due course, be published in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.
A Tax Information and Impact Note has not been produced for the Order as it gives effect to a previously announced policy to enact a double taxation agreement.