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Cap on unlimited income tax reliefs

Produced by a Tolley Personal Tax expert
Personal Tax
Guidance

Cap on unlimited income tax reliefs

Produced by a Tolley Personal Tax expert
Personal Tax
Guidance
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STOP PRESS: The remittance basis is to be abolished from 6 April 2025, although this only applies to foreign income and gains arising on or after that date. The remittance basis rules still apply to unremitted income and gains arising before that date but remitted later. The legislation is included in Finance Bill 2025. For more details, see the Abolition of the remittance basis from 2025/26 guidance note.

Introduction

The cap on unlimited income tax reliefs applies from 6 April 2013. The cap only applies where the person claims more than £50,000 in reliefs in any one tax year. It acts to limit the relief for the tax year to the greater of:

  1. £50,000

  2. 25% of the ‘adjusted total income’ (see below)

ITA 2007, s 24A(1)–(5)

This guidance note discusses the reliefs which are and are not subject to the cap as well as the operation of the cap. For more on the impact of the cap on claims over multiple tax years, see the Cap on unlimited income tax reliefs

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