Taxes Management Act 1970

[F1 10 (1) An exit charge payment plan entered into by a Part 1 company must specify— U.K.

(a) the date on which the company ceased to be resident in the United Kingdom, and

(b) the EEA state in which the company has become resident.

(2) An exit charge payment plan entered into by a Part 2 company must specify—

(a) the EEA state in which the company is resident, and

(b) if the company has ceased to carry on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment there, the date on which it ceased to do so.

(3) In either case an exit charge payment plan entered into by a company must also specify—

(a) the amount of qualifying corporation tax which, in the company's opinion, is payable by it in respect of the migration accounting period,

(b) the amount of that qualifying corporation tax which the company wishes to defer paying under the exit charge payment plan (“ECPP tax”), and

(c) whether the ECPP tax is to be paid in accordance with—

(i) the standard instalment method (see paragraph 13),

(ii) the realisation method (see paragraphs 14 to 17), or

(iii) a combination of the two methods.

(4) If the ECPP tax is to be paid in accordance with a combination of the two methods, the exit charge payment plan must also specify—

(a) in the case of each of the company's exit charge assets or liabilities (see paragraphs 3(2) or 6(2), as the case may be), the method in accordance with which the amount of ECPP tax attributable to the asset or liability (see sub-paragraph (6)) is to be paid, and

(b) the amount of the ECPP tax specified under sub-paragraph (3)(b) that is to be paid in accordance with each method.

(5) But an exit charge payment plan may specify that any ECPP tax is to be paid in accordance with the standard instalment method only if—

(a) in the case of a plan entered into by a Part 1 company, the company's ceasing to be resident in the United Kingdom is not part of arrangements the main purpose of which, or one of the main purposes of which, is to defer the payment of any qualifying corporation tax payable by it;

(b) in the case of a plan entered into by a Part 2 company, none of the PE qualifying events occurring during the migration accounting period, or bringing that period to an end, is part of arrangements the main purpose of which, or one of the main purposes of which, is to defer the payment of any qualifying corporation tax payable by it.

(6) The amount of ECPP tax attributable to each exit charge asset or liability is—

where—

“A” is the income, profits or gains arising in respect of the asset or liability in the migration accounting period by virtue of the relevant exit charge provision only,

“B” is the total income, profits or gains arising in respect of all the exit charge assets and liabilities in the migration accounting period by virtue of the exit charge provisions only, and

“T” is the ECPP tax.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3ZB inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 49 para. 8 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 49 para. 6