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Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

Type Public General Act

Publication 1988-02-09

Last updated 2022-07-14

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(1) The Board may make regulations providing for this Schedule to apply, as from a prescribed date, in relation to any exempt approved scheme which is of a prescribed kind.

(2) The Board may make regulations providing for prescribed provisions of this Schedule to apply, as from a prescribed date, in prescribed circumstances, and subject to any prescribed omissions or modifications, in relation to any exempt approved scheme of another prescribed kind.

(3) In this Schedule “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Board.

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(1) The administrator of a scheme in relation to which this Schedule applies shall, in prescribed circumstances and at a prescribed time, either produce to the Board a written valuation such as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below or give to the Board a certificate such as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) below.

(2) The valuation must be a valuation of the assets held for the purposes of the scheme and the liabilities of the scheme, must be determined in accordance with prescribed principles and fulfil prescribed requirements, and must be signed by a person with qualifications of a prescribed kind.

(3) The certificate must state whether or not the value of the assets (as determined in accordance with prescribed principles) exceeds the value of the liabilities (as so determined) by a percentage which is more than a prescribed maximum, must be in a prescribed form, and must be signed by a person with qualifications of a prescribed kind.

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(1) Subject to paragraph 4(4) below, where a valuation produced under paragraph 2 shows, or a certificate given under that paragraph states, that the value of the assets exceeds the value of the liabilities by a percentage which is more than the prescribed maximum, the administrator of the scheme shall within a prescribed period submit to the Board for their approval proposals which comply with sub-paragraph (2) below.

(2) The proposals must be proposals for reducing (or, subject to paragraph (b) below, eliminating) the excess in a way or ways set out in the proposals and falling within sub-paragraph (3) below; and they must be such as to secure that—

(a) by the end of a prescribed period the percentage (if any) by which the value of the assets exceeds the value of the liabilities is no more than the prescribed maximum; and

(b) if the way, or one of the ways, set out in the proposals falls within sub-paragraph (3)(a) below, there remains an excess which is of a level not less than the prescribed minimum.

(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4) below, the permitted ways of reducing or eliminating the excess are—

(a) making payments to an employer;

(b) suspending for a period (of five years or less) set out in the proposals an employer’s obligation to pay contributions under the scheme or reducing for such a period the amount of an employer’s contributions under the scheme;

(c) suspending for a period (of five years or less) set out in the proposals the obligation of employees to pay contributions under the scheme or reducing for such a period the amount of employees’ contributions under the scheme;

(d) improving existing benefits provided under the scheme;

(e) providing new benefits under the scheme;

(f) such other ways as may be prescribed.

(4) In prescribed circumstances sub-paragraph (3) above shall apply subject to such omissions or modifications as may be prescribed.

(5) Subject to paragraph 4(4) below, if the administrator of the scheme fails to submit proposals to the Board within the period mentioned in subparagraph (1) above, or if the proposals submitted to them within that period are not approved by the Board within a further prescribed period, paragraph 7 below shall apply.

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(1) Where a valuation has been produced under paragraph 2 above, the Board may serve on the administrator of the scheme a notice requiring him to furnish the Board, within a prescribed period, with such particulars relating to the valuation as may be specified in the notice.

(2) Where a certificate has been given under paragraph 2 above, the Board may serve on the administrator of the scheme a notice requiring him to produce to the Board, within a prescribed period, a written valuation such as is mentioned in paragraph 2(2) above.

(3) Where a valuation has been produced in compliance with a notice served under sub-paragraph (2) above, the Board may serve on the administrator of the scheme a further notice requiring him to furnish the Board, within a prescribed period, with such particulars relating to the valuation as may be specified in the notice.

(4) Where a notice is served on the administrator of a scheme under sub-paragraph (1) or (2) above, paragraph 3(1) and (5) above shall cease to apply.

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(1) Where particulars have been furnished under paragraph 4 above, or a valuation has been produced under that paragraph, the Board shall, within a prescribed period, serve on the administrator of the scheme a notice—

(a) stating that they accept the valuation produced under paragraph 2 or, as the case may be, 4 above; or

(b) stating that they do not accept the valuation so produced, and specifying their estimate of the value of the liabilities of the scheme at the relevant time and their estimate of the value of the assets held for the purposes of the scheme at that time.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b) above, the relevant time is the time specified in the valuation produced under paragraph 2 or 4 above as the time by reference to which the values of the assets and liabilities are determined.

(3) Where—

(a) in a case falling within sub-paragraph (1)(a) above, the valuation shows that the value of the assets exceeds the value of the liabilities by a percentage which is more than the prescribed maximum; or

(b) in a case falling within sub-paragraph (1)(b) above, the value of the assets as estimated by the Board exceeds the value of the liabilities as so estimated by a percentage which is more than the prescribed maximum;

the administrator of the scheme shall within a prescribed period submit to the Board for their approval proposals which comply with paragraph 3(2) to (4) above.

(4) If the administrator of the scheme fails to submit proposals to the Board within the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) above, or if proposals submitted to them within that period are not approved by the Board within a further prescribed period, paragraph 7 below shall apply.

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(1) Where proposals are submitted to the Board under paragraph 3(1) or 5(3) above and they approve them within the further prescribed period mentioned in paragraph 3(5) or 5(4) above, the administrator of the scheme shall carry out the proposals within the period mentioned in paragraph 3(2) above.

(2) If the administrator fails to carry out the proposals within that period, paragraph 7 below shall apply.

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(1) Where this paragraph applies the Board may specify a percentage equivalent to the fraction—

$$AB$where—A represents their estimate of the value of the liabilities of the scheme at the relevant time increased by a prescribed percentage; andB represents their estimate of the value of the assets held for the purposes of the scheme at that time.$

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph the relevant time is the time specified—

(a) in the valuation produced or certificate given under paragraph 2 above; or

(b) where a valuation has been produced under paragraph 4 above, in that valuation,

as the time by reference to which the values of the assets and liabilities are determined.

(3) Where a percentage has been so specified—

(a) section 592(2) shall apply only to that percentage of any income derived in the relevant period from the assets held for the purposes of the scheme;

(b) section 592(3) shall apply only to that percentage of any underwriting commissions applied in the relevant period for the purposes of the scheme;

(c) section 551 of ITTOIA 2005 shall by virtue of section 56(3)(b) of this Act not apply only to that percentage of any profits or gains arising to the scheme in the relevant period; and

(d) section 271(1)(g) of the 1992 Act (capital gains tax exemption) shall apply only to that percentage of any gain accruing on the disposal in the relevant period of any of those assets.

(4) Sub-paragraphs (5) to (8) below shall apply where a percentage has been so specified, securities are transferred in the relevant period, and the transferor or transferee is such that, if he became entitled to any interest on them, exemption could be allowed under section 592(2).

(5) Section 715(1)(k) shall not apply.

(6) Where, in consequence of sub-paragraph (5) above, section 713(2)(a) or (3)(b) applies, the sum concerned shall be treated as reduced by an amount equal to the specified percentage of itself.

(7) Where, in consequence of sub-paragraph (5) above, section 713(2)(b) or (3)(a) applies, the relief concerned shall be treated as reduced by an amount equal to the specified percentage of itself.

(8) For the purposes of section 714(5), the amount of interest falling to be reduced by the amount of the allowance shall be treated as the amount found after applying section 592(2).

(9) In sub-paragraphs (4) to (8) above expressions which also appear in sections 710 to 728 have the same meanings as in those sections.

(10) In this paragraph “the relevant period” means the period begining at the relevant time and ending when it is proved to the satisfaction of the Board that the value of the assets (as determined in accordance with prescribed principles) exceeds the value of the liabilities (as so determined) by a percentage which is no more than the prescribed maximum.

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(1) The Board may make regulations providing that an appeal may be brought against a notice under paragraph 5(1)(b) above as if it were notice of the decision of the Board on a claim made by the administrator of the scheme concerned.

(2) Regulations under this paragraph may include—

(a) provision that bringing an appeal shall suspend the operation of paragraph 5(3) and (4) above; and

(b) other provisions consequential on the provision that an appeal may be brought (including provisions modifying this Schedule).

SCHEDULE 23

Preliminary

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(1) This Schedule shall be deemed to have come into force on 17th March 1987 and, subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) below, applies in relation to any retirement benefits scheme approved by the Board before the passing of the Finance (No.2) Act 1987 (23rd July 1987).

(2) The Board may by regulations provide that, in circumstances prescribed in the regulations, this Schedule or any provision of it shall not apply or shall apply with such modifications as may be so prescribed.

(2A) Regulations under sub-paragraph (2) above—

(a) may include provision authorising the Board to direct that this Schedule or any provision of it shall not apply in any particular case where in the opinion of the Board the facts are such that its application would not be appropriate;

(b) may take effect (and may authorise any direction given under them to take effect) as from 17th March 1987 or any later date;

(3) This Schedule shall not apply to a retirement benefits scheme if, before the end of 1987, the administrator of the scheme gave notice to the Board that it is not to apply.

(4) Where a notice is given to the Board under sub-paragraph (3) above, the scheme shall, with effect from 17th March 1987 or (if later) the date with effect from which it was approved, cease to be approved.

Accelerated accrual

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(1) This paragraph applies where an employee becomes a member of the scheme on or after 17th March 1987.

(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the rules of the scheme, they shall have effect as if they did not allow the provision for the employee of a pension exceeding one-thirtieth of his relevant annual remuneration for each year of service up to a maximum of 20.

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(1) This paragraph applies where an employee becomes a member of the scheme on or after 17th March 1987 and the scheme allows him to commute his pension or part of it for a lump sum or sums.

(2) If the employee’s full pension (that is, the pension before any commutation) is equal to or less than a basic rate commutable pension, the rules of the scheme shall have effect (notwithstanding anything in them to the contrary) as if they did not allow him to obtain by way of commutation a lump sum or sums exceeding in all a basic rate lump sum.

(3) If the employee’s full pension is greater than a basic rate commutable pension but less than a maximum rate commutable pension, the rules of the scheme shall have effect (notwithstanding anything in them to the contrary) as if they did not allow him to obtain by way of commutation a lump sum or sums exceeding in all the aggregate of—

(a) a basic rate lump sum, and

(b) an amount equal to the relevant percentage of the difference between a basic rate lump sum and a maximum rate lump sum.

(4) In this paragraph, as it applies in relation to an employee—

(a) a “basic rate commutable pension” means a pension of one-sixtieth of his relevant annual remuneration for each year of service up to a maximum of 40;

(b) a “maximum rate commutable pension” means a pension of one-thirtieth of his relevant annual remuneration for each year of service up to a maximum of 20;

(c) a “basic rate lump sum” means a lump sum of three-eightieths of his relevant annual remuneration for each year of service up to a maximum of 40;

(d) a “maximum rate lump sum” means a lump sum of such amount as may be determined by or under regulations made by the Board for the purposes of this paragraph and paragraph 4 below;

(e) “the relevant percentage” means the difference between a basic rate commutable pension and the employee’s full pension expressed as a percentage of the difference between a basic rate commutable pension and a maximum rate commutable pension.

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(1) This paragraph applies where an employee becomes a member of the scheme on or after 17th March 1987 and the scheme provides a lump sum or sums for him otherwise than by commutation of his pension or part of it.

(2) If the employee’s pension is equal to or less than a basic rate non-commutable pension, the rules of the scheme shall have effect (notwithstanding anything in them to the contrary) as if they did not allow the payment to him, otherwise than by way of commutation, of a lump sum or sums exceeding in all a basic rate lump sum.

(3) If the employee’s pension is greater than a basic rate non-commutable pension but less than a maximum rate non-commutable pension the rules of the scheme shall have effect (notwithstanding anything in them to the contrary) as if they did not allow the payment to him, otherwise than by way of commutation, of a lump sum or sums exceeding in all the aggregate of—

(a) a basic rate lump sum, and

(b) an amount equal to the relevant percentage of the difference between a basic rate lump sum and a maximum rate lump sum.

(4) In this paragraph, as it applies in relation to an employee—

(a) a “basic rate non-commutable pension” means a pension of one-eightieth of his relevant annual remuneration for each year of service up to a maximum of 40,

(b) a “maximum rate non-commutable pension” means a pension of one-fortieth of his relevant annual remuneration for each year of service up to a maximum of 20,

(d) “the relevant percentage” means the difference between a basic rate non-commutable pension and the employee’s actual pension expressed as a percentage of the difference between a basic rate non-commutable pension and a maximum rate non-commutable pension.

Final remuneration

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(1) his paragraph applies where an employee who is a member of the scheme retires on or after 17th March 1987.

(2) The rules of the scheme shall have effect as if they provided that in determining the employee’s relevant annual remuneration for the purpose of calculating benefits, no account should be taken of anything excluded from the definition of “remuneration” in section 612(1).

(3) In the case of an employee—

(a) whose employer is a company and who at any time in the last ten years of his service is a controlling director of the company, or

(b) whose relevant annual remuneration for the purpose of calculating benefits, so far as the remuneration is ascertained by reference to years beginning on or after 6th April 1987, would (apart from this Schedule) exceed the permitted maximum,

the rules of the scheme shall have effect as if they provided that his relevant annual remuneration must not exceed his highest average annual remuneration for any period of three or more years ending within the period of ten years which ends with the date on which his service ends.

(4) In the case of an employee within paragraph (b) of sub-paragraph (3) above who retires before 6th April 1991, the rules of the scheme shall have effect as if they provided that his relevant annual remuneration must not exceed the higher of—

(a) the average annual remuneration referred to in that sub-paragraph, and

(b) his remuneration (within the meaning given by section 612(1)) assessable to income tax under Schedule E for the year of assessment 1986-87.

(5) For the purposes of this paragraph a person is a controlling director of a company if—

(a) he is a director (as defined in section 612), and

(b) he is within paragraph (b) of section 417(5),

in relation to the company.

Lump sums

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(1) This paragraph applies where an employee becomes a member of the scheme on or after 17th March 1987.

(2) If the rules of the scheme allow the employee to obtain, (by commutation of his pension or otherwise), a lump sum or sums calculated by reference to his relevant annual remuneration, they shall have effect as if they included a rule that in calculating a lump sum any excess of that remuneration over the permitted maximum should be disregarded.

Additional voluntary contributions

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(1) This paragraph applies where—

(a) the rules of the scheme make provision for the payment by employees of voluntary contributions, and

(b) on or after 8th April 1987 an employee enters into arrangements to pay such contributions.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in the rules of the scheme, they shall have effect as if they did not allow the payment to the employee of a lump sum in commutation of a pension if or to the extent that the pension is secured by the voluntary contributions.

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(1) This paragraph applies where an employee who is a member of the scheme (“the main scheme”)is also a member of an approved scheme (“the voluntary scheme”)which provides additional benefits to supplement those provided by the main scheme and to which no contributions are made by any employer of his.

(2) Any rules of the main scheme imposing a limit on the amount of a benefit provided for the employee shall have effect (notwithstanding anything in them to the contrary)as if they provided for the limit to be reduced by the amount of any like benefit provided for the employee by the voluntary scheme.

Supplementary

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In this Schedule “relevant annual remuneration” means final remuneration or, if the scheme provides for benefits to be calculated by reference to some other annual remuneration, that other annual remuneration.

SCHEDULE 24

General

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(1) The company shall be assumed to be resident in the United Kingdom.

(2) Nothing in sub-paragraph (1) above requires it to be assumed that there is any change in the place or places at which the company carries on its activities.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that, if any sums forming part of the company’s profits for an accounting period have been received by the company without any deduction of or charge to tax and have been so received by virtue of section 1279 of CTA 2009 the effect of the assumption in sub-paragraph (1) above is that those sums are to be brought within the charge to tax for the purposes of calculating the company’s chargeable profits or corresponding United Kingdom tax.

(3A) In any case where—

(a) it is at any time necessary for any purpose of Chapter IV of Part XVII to determine in the case of any person the chargeable profits of the company for an accounting period, and

(b) at that time—

(i) it has not been established in the case of that person that that or any earlier accounting period of the company is an accounting period in respect of which an apportionment under section 747(3) falls to be made, . . .

(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

in determining the chargeable profits of the company for the accounting period mentioned in paragraph (a) above, it shall be assumed, for the purposes of those provisions of paragraphs 2 and 10 below which refer to the first accounting period in respect of which an apportionment under section 747(3) falls to be made . . . , that that period (but not any earlier period) is an accounting period in respect of which such an apportionment falls to be made . . . .

(4) In any case where—

(a) it is at any time necessary for any purpose of Chapter IV of Part XVII to determine in the case of any person the chargeable profits of the company for an accounting period, and

(b) at that time it has not been established in the case of that person that that or any earlier accounting period of the company is an accounting period in respect of which an apportionment under section 747(3) falls to be made,

in determining the chargeable profits of the company for the accounting period mentioned in paragraph (a) above, it shall be assumed, for the purposes of those provisions of paragraph 9 below which refer to the first accounting period in respect of which an apportionment under section 747(3) falls to be made, that such an apportionment falls to be made in respect of that period (but not in respect of any earlier period).

(5) Nothing in this Schedule affects any liability for, or the computation of, corporation tax in respect of a trade which is carried on by a company resident outside the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment in the United Kingdom.

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(1) The company shall be assumed to have become resident in the United Kingdom (and, accordingly, within the charge to corporation tax) at the beginning of the first accounting period—

(a) in respect of which an apportionment under section 747(3) falls to be made, . . .

(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

and that United Kingdom residence shall be assumed to continue throughout subsequent accounting periods of the company (whether or not an apportionment falls to be made in respect of all or any of them) until the company ceases to be controlled by persons resident in the United Kingdom.

(2) Except in so far as the following provisions of this Schedule otherwise provide, for the purposes of calculating a company’s chargeable profits or corresponding United Kingdom tax for any accounting period which is not the first such period referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above (and, in particular, for the purpose of applying any relief which is relevant to two or more accounting periods), it shall be assumed that a calculation of chargeable profits or, as the case may be, corresponding United Kingdom tax has been made for every previous accounting period throughout which the company was, by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) above, assumed to have been resident in the United Kingdom.

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The company shall be assumed not to be a close company.

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(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, where any relief under the Corporation Tax Acts is dependent upon the making of a claim or election, the company shall be assumed to have made that claim or election which would give the maximum amount of relief and to have made that claim or election within any time limit applicable to it , except that the company shall be assumed not to have made an election under section 18A of CTA 2009.

(1A) Sub-paragraph (2) below applies to any accounting period of the company—

(a) in respect of which an apportionment under section 747(3) falls to be made; . . .

(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2) Where this sub-paragraph applies to an accounting period of the company, then if, by notice given to an officer of the Board at any time not later than the expiry of the period of twenty months following the end of the accounting period or within such longer period as the Board may in any particular case allow, the United Kingdom resident company which has or, as the case may be, any two or more United Kingdom resident companies which together have, a majority interest in the company so request, the company shall be assumed—

(a) not to have made any claim or election specified in the notice; or

(b) to have made a claim or election so specified, being different from one assumed by sub-paragraph (1) above but being one which (subject to compliance with any time limit) could have been made in the case of a company within the charge to corporation tax; or

(c) to have disclaimed or required the postponement, in whole or in part, of an allowance if (subject to compliance with any time limit) a company within the charge to corporation tax could have disclaimed the allowance or, as the case may be, required such a postponement.

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(2B) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) an election under section 9A of CTA 2010 (designated currency of a UK resident investment company) is not to be regarded as an election upon which relief under the Corporation Tax Acts is dependent, and sub-paragraph (2)(b) does not apply in relation to such an election.

(2C) But if, by notice given to an officer of the Board, the United Kingdom resident company which has or, as the case may be, any two or more United Kingdom resident companies which together have, a majority interest in the company so request, the company shall be assumed (subject to section 9A(2) of CTA 2010) to have made an election under section 9A of that Act in the form specified in the notice (and accordingly that section and section 9B of that Act apply to determine the effect (if any) of that election).

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, a United Kingdom resident company has, or two or more United Kingdom resident companies together have, a majority interest in the company if on the apportionment of the company’s chargeable profits for the relevant accounting period under section 747(3) more than half of the amount of those profits—

(a) which are apportioned to all United Kingdom resident companies, and

(b) which give rise to any liability on any such companies under subsection (4)(a) of that section,

are apportioned to the United Kingdom resident company or companies concerned.

(3A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) In sub-paragraph (3) above “the relevant accounting period” means the accounting period or, as the case may be, the first accounting period in which the relief in question is or would be available in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) above.

Group relief etc.

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(1) The company shall be assumed to be neither a member of a group of companies nor a member of a consortium for the purposes of any provision of the Tax Acts.

(2) Where, under Part 5 of CTA 2010, any relief is in fact surrendered by the company and allowed to another company by way of group relief, it shall be assumed that the chargeable profits of the company, apart from this paragraph, are to be increased by an amount of additional profits equal to the amount of the relief so surrendered and allowed.

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Company reconstructions

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Without prejudice to the operation of Chapter 1 of Part 22 of CTA 2010 in a case where the company is the predecessor, within the meaning of that Chapter, and a company resident in the United Kingdom is the successor, within the meaning of that Chapter—

(a) the assumption that the company is resident in the United Kingdom shall not be regarded as requiring it also to be assumed that the company is within the charge to tax in respect of a trade for the purposes of that Chapter, and

(b) except in so far as the company is actually within that charge (by carrying on the trade through a permanent establishment in the United Kingdom), it shall accordingly be assumed that the company can never be the successor, within the meaning of that Chapter, to another company (whether resident in the United Kingdom or not).

Losses in pre-direction accounting periods

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(1) . . . This paragraph applies in any case where the company incurred a loss in a trade in an accounting period—

(a) which precedes the first accounting period in respect of which an apportionment under section 747(3) falls to be made (“the starting period”); and

(b) which ended less than six years before the beginning of the starting period; and

and in this paragraph any such accounting period is referred to as a “pre-apportionment period”.

(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) If a claim is made for the purpose by the United Kingdom resident company or companies referred to in paragraph 4(2) above, the chargeable profits (if any) of the company for accounting periods beginning with that pre-apportionment period which is specified in the claim and in which a loss is incurred as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above shall be determined (in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule other than this paragraph) on the assumption that that pre-apportionment period was the first accounting period in respect of which an apportionment under section 747(3) fell to be made.

(4) A claim under sub-paragraph (3) above shall be made by notice given to an officer of the Board within the period of twenty months following the end of the starting period or within such longer period as the Board may in any particular case allow.

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(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(7) Nothing in—

(a) paragraph 10 of Schedule 18 to the Finance Act 1998 (claims or elections in company tax returns), or

(b) Schedule 1A to the Management Act (claims or elections not included in returns),

shall apply, whether by virtue of section 754 or otherwise, to a claim under sub-paragraph (3) above.

Capital allowances and expenditure on car hire

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(1) Subject to paragraph 12 below, if, in an accounting period falling before the beginning of the first accounting period—

(a) in respect of which an apportionment under section 747(3) falls to be made, . . .

(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

the company incurred any capital expenditure on the provision of plant or machinery for the purposes of its trade, that plant or machinery shall be assumed, for the purposes of Part 2 of the Capital Allowances Act, to have been provided for purposes wholly other than those of the trade and not to have been brought into use for the purposes of that trade until the beginning of that first accounting period, and section 13 of that Act (use for qualifying activity of plant or machinery provided for other purposes) shall apply accordingly.

(2) This paragraph shall be construed as one with Part 2 of the Capital Allowances Act.

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Unremittable overseas income

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For the purposes of the application of Part 18 of CTA 2009 to the company’s income it shall be assumed—

(a) that any reference in section 1274(3) or (4) of that Act to the United Kingdom is a reference to both the United Kingdom and the territory in which the company is in fact resident; and

(b) that a claim under section 1275 of that Act (claim for relief for unremittable income) may be made on behalf of the company by the United Kingdom resident company or companies referred to in paragraph 4(2) above.

SCHEDULE 25

PART I — ACCEPTABLE DISTRIBUTION POLICY

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The provisions of this Part of this Schedule have effect for the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 748 and the other provisions of Chapter IV of Part XVII which refer to a company pursuing an acceptable distribution policy.

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(1) Subject to paragraph 2A below, a controlled foreign company pursues an acceptable distribution policy in respect of a particular accounting period if, and only if—

(a) a dividend which is not paid out of specified profits is paid for that accounting period . . . ; and

(b) the dividend is paid during, or not more than eighteen months after the expiry of, that period or at such later time as the Board may, in any particular case, allow; and

(c) the dividend is paid at a time when the company is not resident in the United Kingdom (whether or not it is at that time a controlled foreign company); and

(d) the amount of the dividend or, if there is more than one, of the aggregate of those dividends which is paid to persons resident in the United Kingdom is not less than90 per cent. of the company’s net chargeable profits for the accounting period referred to in paragraph (a) above or, where sub-paragraph (4) or (5) below applies, of the appropriate portion of those profits;

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(1A) A payment of dividend to a company shall not fall within sub-paragraph (1)(d) above unless it is taken into account in computing the company’s income for corporation tax and—

(a) it is chargeable neither under Chapter 2 of Part 3 of CTA 2009 as profits of a trade carried on wholly or partly in the United Kingdom nor under section 436A (gross roll-up business: separate charge on profits); or

(b) if it is chargeable under Chapter 2 of Part 3 of CTA 2009 as profits of a trade carried on wholly or partly in the United Kingdom, or under section 436A, it is not involved in a UK tax avoidance scheme;

and paragraph 2B below has effect for the purposes of paragraph (b) above.

(1B) A dividend paid by a company shall not fall within sub-paragraph (1)(d) above if, and to the extent that, the profits which are the relevant profits in relation to the dividend derive from dividends or other distributions paid to the company at any time which are dividends or other distributions—

(a) to which section 1285 of CTA 2009 applied; or

(b) to which that section would have applied if the company had been resident in the United Kingdom at that time.

(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph and paragraph 2A below, a dividend which is not paid for the period or periods the profits of which are, in relation to the dividend, the relevant profits for the purposes of section 799 shall be treated (subject to sub-paragraph (3A) below) as so paid.

(3A) For the purposes of this paragraph and paragraph 2A below—

(a) where a dividend is paid for a period which is not an accounting period but falls wholly within an accounting period, it shall be treated as paid for that accounting period, and

(b) where a dividend (“the actual dividend”) is paid for a period which falls within two or more accounting periods—

(i) it shall be treated as if it were a number of separate dividends each of which is paid for so much of the period as falls wholly within an accounting period, and

(ii) the necesssary apportionment of the amount of the actual dividend shall be made to determine the amount of the separate dividends.

(4) This sub-paragraph applies where—

(a) throughout the accounting period in question all the issued shares of the controlled foreign company are of a single class, and

(b) at the end of that accounting period some of those shares are held by persons resident outside the United Kingdom, and

(c) at no time during that accounting period does any person have an interest in the company other than an interest derived from the issued shares of the company;

and in a case where this sub-paragraph applies the appropriate portion for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(d) above is the fraction of which the denominator is the total number of the issued shares of the company at the end of the accounting period in question and, subject to sub-paragraph (8) below, the numerator is the number of those issued shares by virtue of which persons resident in the United Kingdom have interests in the company at that time.

(5) This sub-paragraph applies where—

(a) throughout the accounting period in question there are only two classes of issued shares of the controlled foreign company and, of those classes, one (“non-voting shares”) consists of non-voting fixed-rate preference shares and the other (“voting shares”) consists of shares which carry the right to vote in all circumstances at general meetings of the company; and

(b) at the end of that accounting period some of the issued shares of the company are held by persons resident outside the United Kingdom; and

(c) at no time during that accounting period does any person have an interest in the company other than an interest derived from non-voting or voting shares;

and in a case where this sub-paragraph applies the appropriate portion of the profits referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(d) above is the amount determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (6) below.

(6) The amount referred to in sub-paragraph (5) above is that given by the formula—

$PyQR+(X-P)yYZ$

where—

P is the amount of any dividend falling within (a) and (b) of sub-paragraph (1) above which is paid in respect of the non-voting shares or, if there is more than one such dividend, of the aggregate of them;

Q is, subject to sub-paragraph (8) below, the number of the non-voting shares by virtue of which persons resident in the United Kingdom have interests in the company at the end of the accounting period in question;

R is the total number at that time of the issued non-voting shares;

X is the net chargeable profits for the accounting period in question;

Y is, subject to sub-paragraph (8) below, the number of voting shares by virtue of which persons resident in the United Kingdom have interests in the company at the end of that accounting period; and

Z is the total number at that time of the issued voting shares.

(7) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(a) above, non-voting fixed-rate preference shares are shares—

(a) which are fixed-rate preference shares as defined in paragraph 1 of Schedule 18; and

(b) which either carry no right to vote at a general meeting of the company or carry such a right which is contingent upon the non-payment of a dividend on the shares and which has not in fact become exercisable at any time prior to the payment of a dividend for the accounting period in question.

(8) In any case where the immediate interests held by persons resident in the United Kingdom who have indirect interests in a controlled foreign company at the end of a particular accounting period do not reflect the proportion of the shares or, as the case may be, shares of a particular class in the company by virtue of which they have those interests (as in the case where they hold, directly or indirectly, part of the shares in a company which itself holds, directly or indirectly, some or all of the shares in the controlled foreign company) the number of those shares shall be treated as reduced for the purposes of sub-paragraph (4) or (6) above, as the case may be, to such number as may be appropriate having regard to—

(a) the immediate interests held by the persons resident in the United Kingdom; and

(b) any intermediate shareholdings between those interests and the shares in the controlled foreign company.

(9) The definition of “profits” in section 747(6)(b) does not apply to any reference in this paragraph to specified profits or to relevant profits for the purposes of section 799.

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(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4A) Subject to sub-paragraph (5) below, for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, the net chargeable profits of a controlled foreign company for any accounting period are—

(a) its chargeable profits for that period, less

(b) the amount (if any) which, if an apportionment under section 747(3) fell to be made in respect of the period, would be the company’s unrestricted creditable tax for that period;

and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph “unrestricted creditable tax” in relation to a company’s accounting period means the amount which would be its creditable tax for that period if the reference in section 751(6)(a) to Part XVIII did not include section 797.

(5) In any case where—

(a) a controlled foreign company pays a dividend for any period out of specified profits, and

(b) those profits represent dividends received by the company, directly or indirectly, from another controlled foreign company,

so much of those specified profits as is equal to the dividend referred to in paragraph (a) above shall be left out of account in determining, for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule,. . . the chargeable profits of the controlled foreign company referred to in that paragraph for any accounting period.

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(1) For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, where—

(a) a controlled foreign company pays a dividend (“the initial dividend”) to another company which is also not resident in the United Kingdom, and

(b) that other company or another company which is related to it pays a dividend (“the subsequent dividend”) to a United Kingdom resident, and

(d) the subsequent dividend is paid out of profits which are derived, directly or indirectly, from the whole or part of the initial dividend,

so much of the initial dividend as is represented by the subsequent dividend shall be regarded as paid to the United Kingdom resident and shall be taken to satisfy the conditions in paragraph 2(1A) above.

(1A) A payment to a company shall not be a subsequent dividend within the meaning of sub-paragraph (1)(b) above unless it is taken into account in computing the company’s income for corporation tax and—

(a) it is chargeable neither under Chapter 2 of Part 3 of CTA 2009 as profits of a trade carried on wholly or partly in the United Kingdom nor under section 436A (gross roll-up business: separate charge on profits); or

(b) if it is chargeable under Chapter 2 of Part 3 of CTA 2009 as profits of a trade carried on wholly or partly in the United Kingdom, or under section 436A, it is not involved in a UK tax avoidance scheme;

and paragraph 4A below has effect for the purposes of paragraph (b) above.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, one company is related to another if neither is resident in the United Kingdom and the other—

(a) controls directly or indirectly, or

(b) is a subsidiary of a company which controls directly or indirectly,

at least 10 per cent. of the voting power in the first-mentioned company; and where one company is so related to another and that other is so related to a third company, the first company is for the purposes of this paragraph related to the third, and so on where there is a chain of companies, each of which is related to the next.

PART II — EXEMPT ACTIVITIES

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(1) The provisions of this Part of this Schedule have effect for the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 748.

(1A) Except as provided in paragraph 8 below, the provisions of this Part of this Schedule apply in relation to a company which is resident in an EEA territory in the same way as they apply in relation to a company which is resident elsewhere.

(2) In the case of a controlled foreign company—

(a) which is, by virtue of section 749(5), presumed to be resident in a territory in which it is subject to a lower level of taxation, and

(b) the business affairs of which are, throughout the accounting period in question, effectively managed in a territory outside the United Kingdom other than one in which companies are liable to tax by reason of domicile, residence or place of management,

references in the following provisions of this Part of this Schedule to the territory in which that company is resident shall be construed as references to the territory falling within paragraph (b) above, or, if there is more than one, to that one of them which may be notified to the Board by the United Kingdom resident company or companies referred to in paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 24.

(3) In the case of a controlled foreign company—

(a) which is, by virtue of section 749(5), presumed to be resident in a territory in which it is subject to a lower level of taxation,

(b) the business affairs of which are, throughout the accounting period in question, effectively managed in a special administrative region, and

references in the following provisions of this Part of this Schedule to the territory in which that company is resident shall be construed as references to that region.

(4) In sub-paragraph (3) above “special administrative region” means the Hong Kong or the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.

(5) Where sub-paragraph (3) above applies, it applies in place of sub-paragraph (2).

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(1) Throughout an accounting period a controlled foreign company is engaged in exempt activities if, and only if, each of the following conditions is fulfilled—

(a) that, throughout that accounting period, the company has a business establishment in the territory in which it is resident; and

(b) that, throughout that accounting period, its business affairs in that territory are effectively managed there; and

(2) This sub-paragraph applies to a company if—

(a) at no time during the accounting period in question does the main business of the company consist of either—

(i) investment business, or

(ii) dealing in goods for delivery to or from the United Kingdom or to or from connected or associated persons; and

(b) in the case of a company which is mainly engaged in wholesale, distributive financial or service business in that accounting period, less than 50 per cent. of its gross trading receipts from that business is derived directly or indirectly from persons falling within sub-paragraph (2A) below.

(2A) Those persons are—

(a) persons who are connected or associated with the company;

(b) persons who have a 25 per cent assessable interest in the company in the case of the accounting period in question; . . .

(c) if the company is a controlled foreign company in that accounting period by virtue of subsection (1A) of section 747, persons who are connected or associated with either or both of the two persons mentioned in that subsection ;

(d) persons not falling within paragraphs (a) to (c) above which are companies resident in the United Kingdom;

(e) persons not falling within paragraphs (a) to (c) above which are companies not resident in the United Kingdom which carry on business through a permanent establishment in the United Kingdom;

(f) persons not falling within paragraphs (a) to (c) above who are individuals habitually resident in the United Kingdom;

but where the company is a controlled foreign company falling within sub-paragraph (2B) below, paragraphs (d) to (f) above shall be disregarded.

(2B) A controlled foreign company falls within this sub-paragraph if either—

(a) its main business is the effecting or carrying out of contracts of long-term insurance, other than protection business; or

(b) it is a member of an insurance group and its main business is insuring or reinsuring large risks.

Paragraph 11A below has effect for the interpretation of this sub-paragraph.

(2C) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(b) above, a company’s gross trading receipts from a business shall be regarded as directly or indirectly derived from a person falling within sub-paragraph (2A)(e) above only to the extent that they are derived directly or indirectly from contracts or other arrangements relating to that person’s permanent establishment in the United Kingdom.

(3) This sub-paragraph applies to a company which is a holding company if at least 90 per cent. of its gross income during the accounting period in question is received by it in the territory in which it is resident and is derived directly from companies which it controls and which, throughout that period—

(a) are resident in the territory in which the holding company is resident; and

(b) are not themselves holding companies . . . , but otherwise are, in terms of this Schedule, engaged in exempt activities or are, in terms of sub-paragraph (5A) below, exempt trading companies ;

and a holding company to which this sub-paragraph applies is in this Part of this Schedule referred to as a “local holding company”.

(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4ZA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4BB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4C) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2A)(b) above, a person has a 25 per cent. assessable interest in a controlled foreign company in the case of an accounting period of the company if, on an apportionment of the chargeable profits and creditable tax (if any) of the company for that accounting period under section 747(3), at least 25 per cent. of the controlled foreign company’s chargeable profits for the accounting period would be apportioned to that person.

(5) Any reference in sub-paragraph (3) above to a company which a holding company . . . controls includes a reference to a trading company to which sub-paragraph (5ZA) or (5ZB) below applies.

(5ZA) This sub-paragraph applies to a trading company in which the holding company . . . holds the maximum amount of ordinary share capital which is permitted under the law of the territory—

(a) in which the trading company is resident; and

(b) from whose laws the trading company derives its status as a company.

(5ZB) This sub-paragraph applies to a trading company if—

(a) it is a controlled foreign company by virtue of subsection (1A) of section 747; and

(b) the person who satisfies the requirement in paragraph (b) of that subsection in relation to the company also controls the holding company . . . .

(5A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) above, a company is an exempt trading company throughout any period if—

(a) it is a trading company throughout each of its accounting periods which falls wholly or partly within that period; and

(b) each of those accounting periods is one as regards which—

(i) the condition in section 747(1)(c) is not satisfied; or

(ii) the conditions in section 748(1)(e) are satisfied; or

(iii) the conditions in section 748(3)(a) and (b) are satisfied.

(5B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5C) For the purposes of this paragraph, the gross income of a holding company . . . during an accounting period includes—

(a) any income which accrues during that period to the trustees of a settlement in relation to which the company is a settlor or a beneficiary, and

(b) any income which accrues during that period to a partnership of which the company is a partner, apportioned between the company and the other partners on a just and reasonable basis.

(5D) Where there is more than one settlor or beneficiary in relation to the settlement mentioned in sub-paragraph (5C)(a), the income is to be apportioned between the company and the other settlors or beneficiaries on a just and reasonable basis.

(5E) In sub-paragraph (5C)(b) “partnership” includes an entity established under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom of a similar character to a partnership; and “partner” is to be read accordingly.

(6) The following provisions of this Part of this Schedule have effect in relation to this paragraph.

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(1) For the purposes of paragraph 6(1)(a) above, a “business establishment”, in relation to a controlled foreign company, means premises—

(a) which are, or are intended to be, occupied and used with a reasonable degree of permanence; and

(b) from which the company’s business in the territory in which it is resident is wholly or mainly carried on.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above the following shall be regarded as premises—

(a) an office, shop, factory or other building or part of a building; or

(b) a mine, an oil or gas well, a quarry or any other place of extraction of natural resources; or

but such a site as is referred to in paragraph (c) above shall not be regarded as premises unless the building work or the project, as the case may be, has a duration of at least twelve months.

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(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (4) below, the condition in paragraph 6(1)(b) above shall not be regarded as fulfilled in relation to a company which is not resident in an EEA territory unless—

(a) the number of persons employed by the company in the territory in which it is resident is adequate to deal with the volume of the company’s business; and

(b) any services provided by the company for persons resident outside that territory are not in fact performed in the United Kingdom.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a) above, persons who are engaged wholly or mainly in the business of the company and whose remuneration is paid by a person connected with, and resident in the same territory as, the company shall be treated as employed by the company.

(3) In the case of a holding company . . . , sub-paragraph (2) above shall apply with the omission of the words “wholly or mainly”.

(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b) above, no account shall be taken of services—

(a) provided through a permanent establishment of the controlled foreign company if the profits or gains of the business carried on through the permanent establishment are within the charge to tax in the United Kingdom; or

(b) provided through any other person whose profits or gains from the provision of the services are within the charge to tax in the United Kingdom and who provides the services for a consideration which is, or which is not dissimilar from what might reasonably be expected to be, determined under a contract entered into at arm’s length; or

(5) The condition in paragraph 6(1)(b) above shall not be regarded as fulfilled in relation to a company which is resident in an EEA territory unless there are sufficient individuals working for the company in the territory who have the competence and authority to undertake all, or substantially all, of the company's business.

(6) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (5) above, individuals are not to be regarded as working for a company in any territory unless—

(a) they are employed by the company in the territory, or

(b) they are otherwise directed by the company to perform duties on its behalf in the territory.

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(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) below, for the purposes of paragraph 6(2)(a)(i) above, each of the following activities constitutes investment business—

(a) the holding of securities, or intellectual property;

(b) dealing in securities, other than in the capacity of a broker;

(d) the investment in any manner of funds which would otherwise be available, directly or indirectly, for investment by or on behalf of any person (whether resident in the United Kingdom or not) who has, or is connected or associated with a person who has, control, either alone or together with other persons, of the controlled foreign company in question.

(1A) In sub-paragraph (1)(a) above “intellectual property” includes (in particular)—

(a) any industrial, commercial or scientific information, knowledge or expertise;

(b) any patent, trade mark, registered design, copyright or design right;

(d) any rights under the law of a country outside the United Kingdom which correspond or are similar to those falling within paragraph (b) or (c) above.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(b) above “broker” includes any person offering to sell securities to, or purchase securities from, members of the public generally.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph 6(2) above, in the case of a company which is mainly engaged in business falling within paragraph 11(1)(c) below, nothing in sub-paragraph (1) above shall require the main business of the company to be regarded as investment business.

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Goods which are actually delivered into the territory in which the controlled foreign company is resident shall not be taken into account for the purposes of paragraph 6(2)(a)(ii) above.

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(1) For the purposes of paragraph 6(2)(b) above, each of the following activities constitutes wholesale, distributive financial or service business—

(a) dealing in any description of goods wholesale rather than retail;

(b) the business of shipping or air transport, that is to say, the business carried on by an owner of ships or the business carried on by an owner of aircraft (“owner” including, for this purpose, any charterer);

(c) banking, deposit-taking, money-lending or debt-factoring, or any business similar to banking, deposit-taking, money-lending or debt-factoring;

(d) the administration of trusts;

(e) dealing in securities in the capacity of a broker, as defined in paragraph 9(2) above;

(f) dealing in commodity or financial futures;. . .

(g) the effecting or carrying out of contracts of insurance; and

(h) the provision of services not falling within any of the preceding paragraphs.

(1A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(g) above “contract of insurance” has the meaning given by Article 3(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001.

(2) In a case where the gross trading receipts of a company include an amount in respect of the proceeds of sale of any description of property or rights, the cost to the company of the purchase of that property or those rights shall be a deduction in calculating the company’s gross trading receipts for the purposes of paragraph 6(2)(b) above.

(3) In the case of a controlled foreign company engaged in a business falling within sub-paragraph (1)(c) above—

(a) no payment of interest received from a company resident in the United Kingdom which is connected or associated with the controlled foreign company shall be regarded for the purposes of paragraph 6(2)(b) above as a receipt derived directly or indirectly from a person falling within paragraph 6(2A) above, but

(b) it shall be conclusively presumed that the condition in paragraph 6(2)(b) above is not fulfilled if, at any time during the accounting period in question, the amount by which the aggregate value of the capital interests in the company held directly or indirectly by—

(i) the persons who have control of the company, and

(ii) any person connected or associated with those persons,

exceeds the value of the company’s fixed assets is 15 per cent. or more of the amount by which the company’s outstanding capital exceeds that value , and

(c) it shall also be conclusively presumed that the condition in paragraph 6(2)(b) is not fulfilled if 10% or more of the company’s gross trading receipts from all businesses carried on by it in the accounting period in question, taken together, are receipts other than interest and are directly or indirectly derived from persons—

(i) which are companies resident in the United Kingdom,

(ii) which are companies not resident in the United Kingdom but which carry on business through a permanent establishment in the United Kingdom, or

(iii) who are individuals habitually resident in the United Kingdom,

but for this purpose a company’s gross trading receipts shall be regarded as directly or indirectly derived from a person falling within sub-paragraph (ii) above only to the extent that they are derived directly or indirectly from contracts or other arrangements relating to that person’s permanent establishment in the United Kingdom.

(4) For the purposes of this paragraph, in relation to a controlled foreign company—

(a) “capital interest” means an interest in the issued share capital or reserves of the company or in a loan to or deposit with the company or the liability of a guarantor under a guarantee given to or for the benefit of the company;

(b) except in the case of the liability of a guarantor, the value of a capital interest is its value as shown in the company’s accounts;

(c) in the case of the liability of a guarantor, the value shall be taken to be the market value of the benefit which the controlled foreign company derives from the provision of the guarantee;

(d) the value of the company’s fixed assets means the value, as shown in the company’s accounts, of the plant, premises and trade investments employed in the company’s business; and

(e) “outstanding capital” means the total value of all the capital interests in the company, less the value, as shown in the company’s accounts, of any advances made by the company to persons resident outside the United Kingdom and falling within paragraph (i) or paragraph (ii) of sub-paragraph (3)(b) above.

(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (4) above—

(a) “trade investments”, in relation to a controlled foreign company, means securities any profit on the sale of which would not be brought into account as a trading receipt in computing the chargeable profits of an accounting period in which that profit arose; and

(b) the reference in paragraph (e) to advances made to a person by the controlled foreign company includes, in the case of a company which is a person resident outside the United Kingdom and falling within paragraph (i) or paragraph (ii) of sub-paragraph (3)(b) above, any securities of that company which are held by the controlled foreign company but are not trade investments, as defined in paragraph (a) above;

and in this sub-paragraph “securities” includes stocks and shares.

(6) In the application of paragraph 6(2)(b) above in the case of a controlled foreign company engaged in insurance business of any kind—

(a) the reference to gross trading receipts which are derived directly or indirectly from connected or associated persons is a reference to those which, subject to sub-paragraph (7) below, are attributable, directly or indirectly, to liabilities undertaken in relation to any of those persons or their property;

(b) the only receipts to be taken into account are commissions and premiums received under insurance contracts;

(d) when a liability under an insurance contract is reinsured, in whole or in part, the amount of the premium which is attributable, directly or indirectly, to that liability shall be treated as reduced by so much of the premium under the reinsurance contract as is attributable to that liability.

(7) In determining, in relation to a controlled foreign company to which sub-paragraph (6) above applies, the gross trading receipts referred to in paragraph (a) of that sub-paragraph, there shall be left out of account any receipts under a local reinsurance contract which are attributable to liabilities which—

(a) are undertaken under an insurance contract made in the territory in which the company is resident; and

(b) are not reinsured under any contract other than a local reinsurance contract; and

(c) relate either to persons who are resident in that territory and are neither connected nor associated with the company or to property which is situated there and belongs to persons who are not so connected or associated;

and in paragraph (a) above “insurance contract” does not include a reinsurance contract.

(8) In sub-paragraph (7) above “local reinsurance contract” means a reinsurance contract—

(a) which is made in the territory in which the controlled foreign company is resident; and

(b) the parties to which are companies which are resident in that territory.

(9) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (7) and (8) above, any question as to the territory in which a company is resident shall be determined in accordance with section 749 and, where appropriate, paragraph 5(2) above; and, for the purpose of the application of those provisions in accordance with this sub-paragraph, the company shall be assumed to be a controlled foreign company.

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(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, in paragraphs 6 and 8(3) above and in sub-paragraphs (4) and (5) below “holding company” means—

(a) a company the business of which consists wholly or mainly in the holding of shares or securities of companies which are either local holding companies and its 90 per cent. subsidiaries or trading companies and either its 51 per cent. subsidiaries or companies falling within paragraph 6(5) above; or

(b) a company which would fall within paragraph (a) above if there were disregarded so much of its business as consists in the holding of property or rights of any description for use wholly or mainly by companies which it controls and which are resident in the territory in which it is resident.

(2) In determining whether a company is a holding company for the purposes of paragraph 6(3) above (and, accordingly, whether the company is or may be a local holding company), sub-paragraph (1) above shall have effect with the omission from paragraph (a) thereof of the words “either local holding companies and its 90 per cent. subsidiaries or”.

(3) In its application for the purposes of this paragraph, section 1154 of CTA 2010 has effect with the omission of the following—

(a) in subsection (2), the words “or indirectly”, and

(b) subsection (5).

(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) . . . of paragraph 6 above, as it applies in relation to a holding company part of whose business consists of activities other than the holding of shares or securities or the holding of property or rights as mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of sub-paragraph (1) above, the company’s gross income during any accounting period shall be determined as follows—

(a) there shall be left out of account so much of what would otherwise be the company’s gross income as is derived from any activity which, if it were the business in which the company is mainly engaged, would be such that paragraph 6(2) above would apply to the company; and

(b) to the extent that the receipts of the company from any other activity include receipts from the proceeds of sale of any description of property or rights, the cost to the company of the purchase of that property or those rights shall (to the extent that the cost does not exceed the receipts) be a deduction in calculating the company’s gross income, and no other deduction shall be made in respect of that activity.

(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 6 above, so much of the income of a holding company as—

(a) is derived directly from another company which it controls and which is not a holding company . . . but otherwise is, in terms of this Schedule, engaged in exempt activities or, in terms of sub-paragraph (5A) of that paragraph, is an exempt trading company, and

(b) was or could have been paid out of any non-trading income of that other company which is derived directly or indirectly from a third company connected or associated with it,

shall be treated, in relation to the holding company, as if it were not derived directly from companies which it controls.

(6) The reference in sub-paragraph (5) above to the non-trading income of a company is a reference to so much of its income as, if the company were carrying on its trade in the United Kingdom, would not be within the charge to corporation tax under section 35 of CTA 2009.

PART III — THE PUBLIC QUOTATION CONDITION

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(1) The provisions of this Part of this Schedule have effect for the purposes of section 748(1)(c).

(2) Subject to paragraph 14 below, a controlled foreign company fulfils the public quotation condition with respect to a particular accounting period if—

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