Foreign investment PIE return and certificate changes
With the introduction of the new foreign investment PIEs, the formats of the PIE periodic return and the investor certificates will change. See the tables below for details. The new fields have been appended to the bottom of the returns so that PIEs that do not become one of the foreign investment PIEs can continue to use the existing returns.
Version number you should use
Foreign investment zero-rate PIEs can continue to use the existing version 0003 for both the IR852 and IR853 but must use the new version 0004 for the IR854.
Variable-rate PIEs for the 2013 tax year will need to use version 0004 for the IR852 and IR854 but may choose to use either version 0003 or version 0004 for the IR853.
Foreign investment PIEs using B2B must use version 0004 for all returns.
PIE periodic return IR852 changes
| New fields | Description | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Income attributed to NFI | Enter all amounts attributed to notified foreign investors. Can be net of expenses where tax calculation is not affected. | Will accept positive or negative amounts |
| Tax paid on NFI income | Enter the net tax result for all tax calculations for notified foreign investors | Will accept positive or negative amounts |
The fields "Taxable income" and "Taxable loss" become "Total income" and "Total loss" to cater for notified foreign investors and non-deductible expenditure.
Note
Under the rates method the four different classes of zero-rated income are combined:
- zero-rated investor
- exiting investor
- offshore income for notified foreign investor, and
- fully-imputed dividends for a notified foreign investor.
Also combined are the two classes of 28% income. It is assumed to be an easier method. The alternative would be separate reporting for each class of income for each rate.
Annual reconciliation IR853
There are no material changes to the annual reconciliation return IR853. A version 0004 has been created so that a full series of version 0004 can be used. The only change is in the field name for "Taxable income/loss" becomes "Total income/loss" to cater for notified foreign investors. Because the tags are changing for B2B version 0004 will need to be used.
Certificate IR854 new requirements for notified foreign investors
A new certificate is required for each change of country during the tax year.
The PIR at year end is 99.99 for double tax agreement (DTA) and 90.00 for non-DTA countries on the IR854
Part A
| Requirement | Description |
|---|---|
| PIR at year end | For notified foreign investors this will be 99.99 for investors residing in a country with which we hold a double tax agreement (DTA) with and 90.00 for non-DTA countries. |
| Taxable income/loss | Renamed "Total income/loss". |
| Total tax credits for low, mid and/or top PIR investor | "Renamed "Total tax credits used". |
| PIE tax paid/credited on investor's income for low, mid and/or top PIR |
Renamed "PIE tax paid/credited". |
Part E
| Requirement | Description |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | For a living person their date of birth. Not required for other entities but can be provided. |
| Home address | The address in the country or territory where the investor resides for tax purposes. |
| Country code |
The two digit country code using the ISO 3166 standard. Read the Non-resident withholding tax (NRWT) rates and country codes (IR290) |
| Home country tax file number | No embedded commas or special characters as per build pack list. |
| Units held Y/E |
Number of units the investor held at year end. For all investors not just NFIs |
Date published: 23 Nov 2011
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