Part 3Trading income

Chapter 9Trade profits: other specific trades

Dealers in securities etc

128Taxation of amounts taken to reserves

1

This section applies for the purpose of calculating the profits of a company's trade if—

a

the company carries on a banking business, an insurance business or a business consisting wholly or partly of dealing in securities, and

b

a profit on the sale of securities held by the company would be brought into account in calculating the trading profits of that business.

2

Profits and losses from the securities that in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice are—

a

calculated by reference to the fair value of the securities, and

b

recognised in the company's statement of recognised gains and losses or statement of changes in equity,

are brought into account in calculating the profits of the trade.

3

But subsection (2) does not apply—

a

to an amount so far as deriving from or otherwise relating to an amount brought into account under that subsection in an earlier period of account, or

b

to an amount recognised for accounting purposes by way of correction of a fundamental error.

4

In this section “securities” includes—

a

shares,

b

rights of unit holders in unit trust schemes to which TCGA 1992 applies as a result of section 99 of TCGA 1992, and

c

in the case of a company with no share capital, interests in the company possessed by members of the company,

but does not include a loan relationship (within the meaning of Part 5).