Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

F1 6 (1) This paragraph applies where a person makes an unapproved manufactured payment.

(2) Where the unapproved manufactured payment is a manufactured dividend paid by a company, any advance corporation tax paid by the company in respect of the manufactured dividend—

(a) shall not be set against any liability of the company to corporation tax as mentioned in section 239;

(b) shall not be surrendered under, or otherwise treated as mentioned in, section 240; and

(c) shall not be utilised in any other way for the purposes of the Tax Acts;

and no franked investment income of a company shall be used to frank (within the meaning of section 241(5)) the manufactured dividend.

(3) Where the unapproved manufactured payment is manufactured interest paid by a company—

(a) relief shall not be given to the company under any provision of the Tax Acts in respect of any amount which the company is required to deduct from the payment on account of income tax; and

(b) the company shall not be entitled under paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 16 to claim to set income tax borne by deduction from payments received by it against the income tax which it is liable to pay in respect of the payment of manufactured interest.

(4) Where the unapproved manufactured payment is a manufactured overseas dividend—

(a) relief shall not be given to any person under any provision of the Tax Acts in respect of any amount which he is required to deduct from the payment on account of income tax; and

(b) a person shall not be entitled under or by virtue of this Schedule to set—

(i) overseas tax in respect of overseas dividends received by him, or

(ii) an amount deducted under paragraph 4(2) above in respect of manufactured overseas dividends received by him,

against any income tax which he is liable to pay in respect of the payment of the manufactured overseas dividend.

(5) If it appears to an inspector that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, franked investment income of a company has been used to frank a manufactured dividend which is an unapproved manufactured payment, he may make an assessment on the dividend manufacturer under sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 3 of Schedule 13 and that sub-paragraph shall accordingly apply in relation to the amount of advance corporation tax in question.

(6) If it appears to an inspector that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, income tax on income received by an interest manufacturer has been set against an amount deducted by the interest manufacturer on account of income tax on a payment of manufactured interest which is an unapproved manufactured payment, the inspector may make an assessment on the interest manufacturer under paragraph 4 of Schedule 16 and that paragraph shall accordingly apply in relation to the amount of income tax in question.

(7) In this paragraph “relief” means relief by way of—

(a) deduction in computing profits or gains; or

(b) deduction or set off against income or total profits.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 23A inserted by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 63:1), s. 58, Sch. 13 para. 1 (with effect as mentioned in s. 58(3) in relation to payments made on or after such day as may be specified: 26.2.1992 specified for certain purposes by S.I. 1992/173, reg.2; 30.6.1992 specified for certain purposes by S.I. 1992/1346, regs.2, 3, 4; 21.4.1993 specified for certain purposes by S.I. 1993/933, regs.2, 3(b), 4)