Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

Section 747(6).

SCHEDULE 24 U.K. M1 ASSUMPTIONS FOR CALCULATING CHARGEABLE PROFITS, CREDITABLE TAX AND CORRESPONDING UNITED KINGDOM TAX OF FOREIGN COMPANIES

Marginal Citations

M1 Source-1984 Sch. 16, 1985 Sch. 14 16

General U.K.

1 (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 [F1 and have been so received by virtue of section 154(2) of the Finance Act 1996] 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.

[F2 (3A) In any case where—

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

(b) at that time—

(i) no direction has been given under section 747(1) with respect to that or any earlier accounting period of the company, and

(ii) it has not been established that that or any earlier accounting period of the company is an ADP exempt period,

in determining the chargeable profits of the company for the accounting period mentioned in paragraph (a) above it shall be assumed, for the purpose of any of the following provisions of this Schedule which refer to the first accounting period in respect of which a direction is given under section 747(1) or which is an ADP exempt period, that that period (but not any earlier period) is an accounting period in respect of which such a direction is given or which is an ADP exempt period.]

(4) In any case where—

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

(b) at that time no direction has been given under section 747(1) with respect to that or any earlier accounting period of the company,

[F3 in determining the chargeable profits of the company for the accounting period mentioned in paragraph (a) above] it shall be assumed, for the purpose of any of the following provisions of this Schedule which refer to the first accounting period in respect of which a direction is given under that section, that such a direction has been given for that period (but not for 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 branch or agency in the United Kingdom.

[F4 (6) Any reference in this Schedule to an “ADP exempt period”, in the case of any company, is a reference to an accounting period of the company—

(a) which begins on or after 28th November 1995; and

(b) in respect of which the company pursued, within the meaning of Part I of Schedule 25, an acceptable distribution policy.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 24 para. 1(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 154(9) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 28 para. 6

F2 Sch. 24 para. 1(3A) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(2)

F3 Words in Sch. 24 para. 1(4) inserted (retrospectively) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), Sch. 25 para. 6(1)(2)

F4 Sch. 24 para. 1(6) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(3)

2 (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—

[F5 (a) in respect of which a direction is given under section 747(1), or

(b) which is an ADP exempt period,

and] that United Kingdom residence shall be assumed to continue throughout subsequent accounting periods of the company (whether or not a direction is given 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.

Textual Amendments

F5 Words in Sch. 24 para. 2(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(4)

3 U.K. The company shall be assumed not to be a close company.

4 (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.

[F6 (1A) Sub-paragraph (2) below applies to any accounting period of the company—

(a) in respect of which a direction is given under section 747(1); or

(b) which is an ADP exempt period.]

(2) [F7 Where this sub-paragraph applies to an accounting period of the company, then] if, by notice given to the Board at any time not later than the expiry of [F8 the appropriate 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.

[F9 (2A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) above, “the appropriate period”—

(a) in the case of an accounting period in respect of which a direction is given under section 747(1), means the time for the making of an appeal under section 753; and

(b) in the case of an accounting period which is an ADP exempt period, means the period of twenty months following the end of the accounting period.]

(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 an assessment on any such companies under subsection (4)(a) of that section,

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

[F10 (3A) Sub-paragraph (3) above shall apply in relation to an accounting period which is an ADP exempt period as it would apply if—

(a) that accounting period had instead been one in respect of which a direction had been duly given under section 747(1), and

(b) such apportionments and assessments as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) above had been made.]

(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.

Textual Amendments

F6 Sch. 24 para. 4(1A) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(5)

F7 Words in Sch. 24 para. 4(2) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(6)(a)

F8 Words in Sch. 24 para. 4(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(6)(b)

F9 Sch. 24 para. 4(2A) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(7)

F10 Sch. 24 para. 4(3A) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(8)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 24 para. 4(3)(4) applied (with modifications) (23.3.1995) by The Exchange Gains and Losses (Alternative Method of Calculation of Gain or Loss) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/3227), regs. 1(2), 6

[F11 4A U.K. F12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

Textual Amendments

F11 Sch. 24 para. 4A inserted (27.7.1993 with effect as mentioned in s. 96(2) of the amending act in relation to any accounting period on or after such day as may be appointed under s. 165(7)(b) of the amending Act) by 1993 c. 34, ss. 96(1)(2), 165(7)(b)

F12 Sch. 24 para. 4A deemed never to have been inserted, by virtue of Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), Sch. 25 para. 6(3), Sch. 29 Pt. 8(18), Note

Group relief etc. U.K.

5 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.

6 (1) In relation to section 247 it shall be assumed—

(a) that the conditions for the making of an election under subsection (1) are not fulfilled with respect to dividends paid or received by the company; and

(b) that the conditions for the making of an election under subsection (4) are not fulfilled with respect to payments made or received by the company.

(2) References in sub-paragraph (1) above to dividends or payments received by the company apply to any received by another person on behalf of or in trust for the company, but not to any received by the company on behalf of or in trust for another person.

7 The company shall be assumed not to be a subsidiary to which the benefit of any advance corporation tax may be surrendered under section 240.

Company reconstructions U.K.

8 Without prejudice to the operation of section 343 in a case where the company is the predecessor, within the meaning of that section, and a company resident in the United Kingdom is the successor, within the meaning of that section—

(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 section, and

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

Losses in pre-direction accounting periods U.K.

9 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, 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 a direction is given under section 747(1) (“the starting period”); and

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

(c) in which the company was not resident [F13 , and is not to be assumed by virtue of paragraph 2(1)(b) above to have been resident,] in the United Kingdom;

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

(2) This paragraph does not apply in any case where a declaration is made under paragraph 11(3) below specifying an accounting period of the company which begins before, or is the same as, the first pre-direction period in which the company incurred a loss as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above.

(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-direction 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-direction period was the first accounting period in respect of which a direction was given under section 747(1).

(4) A claim under sub-paragraph (3) above shall be made by notice given to the Board within 60 days of the date of the notice under subsection (1) or subsection (3) of section 753 relating to the starting period or within such longer period as the Board may in any particular case allow.

(5) For the purposes of a claim under sub-paragraph (3) above, it shall be assumed that Chapter IV of Part XVII was in force before the beginning of the first of the pre-direction periods.

(6) In determining for the purposes of this paragraph which accounting period of the company is the starting period, no account should be taken of the effect of any declaration under paragraph 11(3) below.

Textual Amendments

F13 Words in Sch. 24 para. 9(1)(c) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(9)

Capital allowances U.K.

10 (1) Subject to paragraphs 11 and 12 below, if, in an accounting period falling before the beginning of the first accounting period

[F14 (a) in respect of which a direction is given under section 747(1), or

(b) which is an ADP exempt period,

the] company incurred any capital expenditure on the provision of machinery or plant for the purposes of its trade, that machinery or plant shall be assumed, for the purposes of [F15 Part II of the 1990 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 [F15 section 81 of] that Act (expenditure treated as equivalent to market value at the time the machinery or plant is brought into use) shall apply accordingly.

(2) This paragraph shall be construed as one with [F16 Part II of the 1990 Act].

Textual Amendments

F14 Words in Sch. 24 para. 10(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(10)

F15 Words in Sch. 24 para. 10(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 164(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1), Sch. 1 para. 8(42)(a) (with s. 164(3))

F16 Words in Sch. 24 para. 10(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 164(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1), Sch. 1 para. 8(42)(b) (with s. 164(3))

11 (1) This paragraph applies in any case where it appears to the Board that the reason why no direction was given under section 747(1) in respect of an accounting period which precedes the starting period was that the effect of any allowance which would be assumed for that preceding period by virtue of this Schedule would be such that—

(a) the company would not have been considered to be subject in that accounting period to a lower level of taxation in the territory in which it was resident; or

(b) the company would have had no chargeable profits for that accounting period; or

(c) the chargeable profits of the company for that accounting period would not have exceeded £20,000 or such smaller amount as was appropriate in accordance with section 748(1)(d).

(2) In this paragraph “the starting period” means the first accounting period

[F17 (a) in respect of which a direction is given under section 747(1), or

(b) which is an ADP exempt period,

and], in a case where a claim is made under sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 9 above, no account shall be taken of the effect of that sub-paragraph in determining which accounting period is the starting period for the purposes of this paragraph.

(3) If, in a case where this paragraph applies, the Board so declare by notice given to every company to which, in accordance with section 753(1), notice of the making of the direction relating to the starting period is required to be given, the chargeable profits of that period and every subsequent accounting period and the corresponding United Kingdom tax for every subsequent accounting period shall be determined (in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule other than this paragraph) on the assumption that the accounting period specified in the declaration was the first accounting period in respect of which a direction was given and, accordingly, as if allowances had been assumed in respect of that accounting period and any subsequent accounting period which precedes the starting period.

(4) Nothing in sub-paragraph (3) above affects the operation of paragraph 9(3) above in a case where the accounting period specified in a claim under paragraph 9(3) above begins before the period specified in a declaration under sub-paragraph (3) above.

(5) Subject to sub-paragraph (6) below, the Board shall not make a declaration under sub-paragraph (3) above with respect to an accounting period which precedes the starting period unless the facts are such that—

(a) assuming the company to have been subject in that period to a lower level of taxation in the territory in which it was resident, and

(b) assuming the company to have had in that period chargeable profits of such an amount that the condition in section 748(1)(d) would not be fulfilled,

correction could have been given in respect of that period under section (1).

(6) In its application to a company falling within section 749(3), sub-paragraph (5) above shall have effect with the omission of paragraph (a).

(7) In this paragraph “allowance” means an allowance under [F18 Part I or II of the 1990 Act].

Textual Amendments

F17 Words in Sch. 24 para. 11(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(11)

F18 Words in Sch. 24 para. 11(7) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 164(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1), Sch. 1 para. 8(42)(c) (with s. 164(3))

11A (1) This paragraph applies where by virtue of section 747A the company’s chargeable profits for an accounting period (the period in question) are to be computed and expressed in a currency (the relevant foreign currency) other than sterling.

(2) For the purposes of making in relation to the period in question any calculation which—

(a) falls to be made under the enactments relating to capital allowances, and

(b) takes account of amounts arrived at under those enactments in relation to accounting periods falling before the company’s commencement day (within the meaning given by section 747A(9)),

it shall be assumed that any such amount is the equivalent, expressed in the relevant foreign currency, of the amount expressed in sterling.

(3) For the purposes of the application in relation to the period in question of paragraph 11(1)(c) above, it shall be assumed that the company’s chargeable profits for the period are the sterling equivalent of its chargeable profits found in the relevant foreign currency.

(4) For the purposes of the application of section 34, 35 or 96 of the 1990 Act (motor cars and dwelling-houses) in relation to expenditure incurred in the period in question, it shall be assumed that any sterling sum mentioned in any of those sections is the equivalent, expressed in the relevant foreign currency, of the amount expressed in sterling.

(5) The translation required by sub-paragraph (2) above shall be made by reference to the London closing exchange rate for the two currencies concerned for the first day of the period in question.

(6) The translation required by sub-paragraph (3) above shall be made by reference to the London closing exchange rate for the two currencies concerned for the last day of the period in question.

(7) The translation required by sub-paragraph (4) above shall be made by reference to the London closing exchange rate for the two currencies concerned for the day on which the expenditure concerned was incurred.

Unremittable overseas income U.K.

12 For the purposes of the application of section 584 to the company’s income it shall be assumed—

(a) that any reference in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of that section 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 notice under subsection (2) of that section (expressing a wish to be assessed in accordance with that subsection) may be given on behalf of the company by the United Kingdom resident company or companies referred to in paragraph 4(2) above.

[F19 Exchange gains and losses U.K.

Textual Amendments

F19 Sch. 24 paras. 13-19 and cross-heading inserted (1.5.1995) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), Sch. 25 para. 6(5)

13 Paragraphs 14 to 19 below apply for the purposes of the application of Chapter II of Part II of the M2 Finance Act 1993.

Marginal Citations

M2 1993 c. 34.

14 (1) This paragraph applies where—

(a) by virtue of section 747A the company’s chargeable profits for an accounting period are to be computed and expressed in a particular currency (the relevant currency),

(b) in an accrual period an asset or contract was held, or a liability was owed, by the company, and

(c) the accrual period falls within or constitutes the accounting period concerned.

(2) It shall be assumed that—

(a) the local currency for the purposes of sections 125 to 127 of the M3 Finance Act 1993 is the relevant currency, and

(b) section 149 of that Act (local currency to be used) does not apply as regards the accrual period concerned.

Marginal Citations

M3 1993 c. 34.

15 Where the accounting period mentioned in section 139(1) of the M4 Finance Act 1993 is one for which, by virtue of section 747A, the company’s chargeable profits are to be computed and expressed in a currency other than sterling—

(a) section 142(1) to (4) of that Act shall be assumed not to apply as regards that period;

(b) section 142(5) and (6) of that Act shall be assumed not to apply as regards the next accounting period of the company.

Marginal Citations

M4 1993 c. 34.

16 (1) This paragraph applies where the last relevant accounting period for the purposes of section 146 of the M5 Finance Act 1993 is one for which by virtue of section 747A the company’s chargeable profits are to be computed and expressed in a particular currency (the relevant currency).

(2) Subsections (10), (11) and (14) of section 146 of the M6 Finance Act 1993 shall be assumed not to apply.

Marginal Citations

M5 1993 c. 34.

M6 1993 c. 34.

17 Where by virtue of section 747A the company’s chargeable profits for an accounting period are to be computed and expressed in a particular currency, the references in section 148(9) of the M7 Finance Act 1993 to sterling shall be assumed to be references to that particular currency.

Marginal Citations

M7 1993 c. 34.

18 (1) This paragraph applies where the accounting period mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (11) of section 153 of the M8 Finance Act 1993 is one for which, by virtue of section 747A, the company’s chargeable profits are to be computed and expressed in a particular currency (the relevant currency).

(2) That subsection shall have effect as if the reference to the local currency of the trade for the accounting period were a reference to the relevant currency.

Marginal Citations

M8 1993 c. 34.

19 (1) This paragraph applies where—

(a) Chapter II of Part II of the M9 Finance Act 1993 falls to be applied as regards an accounting period of the company;

(b) under that Chapter, an exchange gain or an exchange loss accrued to the company for an accrual period constituting or falling within an earlier accounting period of the company, and

(c) the accounting period mentioned in paragraph (b) above falls before the company’s first relevant accounting period.

(2) It shall be assumed, for the purposes of applying Chapter II of Part II of the M10 Finance Act 1993 as respects the accounting period mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) above, that the exchange gain or loss mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b) above never existed.

(3) In sub-paragraph (1) above—

(a) references to an exchange gain are to an exchange gain of a trade or an exchange gain of part of a trade or a non-trading exchange gain;

(b) references to an exchange loss are to an exchange loss of a trade or an exchange loss of part of a trade or a non-trading exchange loss;

(c) the reference in sub-paragraph (1)(b) to an exchange gain or an exchange loss accruing is to the gain or loss accruing before the application of any of sections 131, 136, 137 and 140 of the M11 Finance Act 1993 in relation to the accounting period mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b);

(d) references to the first relevant accounting period of the company shall be construed in accordance with section 747A.]

Marginal Citations

M9 1993 c. 34.

M10 1993 c. 34.

M11 1993 c. 34.

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[F20 Transfer pricing U.K.

Textual Amendments

F20 Sch. 24 para. 20 and cross-heading inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 17 para. 37 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 17 para. 24; S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2

20 (1) Sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 5 of Schedule 28AA (no potential UK tax advantage where both parties are within charge to income or corporation tax etc) shall be assumed not to apply in any case where, apart from that sub-paragraph (and on the assumption in paragraph 1(1) above),—

(a) paragraph 6 of that Schedule would apply; and

(b) the company would be the disadvantaged person for the purposes of that paragraph.

(2) Schedule 28AA (transfer pricing etc: provision not at arm’s length) shall be assumed not to apply in any case where, apart from this sub-paragraph,—

(a) the actual provision would (on the assumption in paragraph 1(1) above) confer a potential advantage in relation to United Kingdom taxation on the company;

(b) the other affected person would be a company resident outside the United Kingdom; and

(c) each accounting period of that company which falls wholly or partly within the accounting period in question is one as regards which—

(i) an apportionment under section 747(3) falls to be made; or

(ii) no such apportionment falls to be made by virtue of the period being an ADP exempt period.

(3) In any case where—

(a) by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) above, Schedule 28AA is assumed not to apply, and

(b) the actual provision mentioned in paragraph (a) of that sub-paragraph involves (on the assumption in paragraph 1(1) above) any such interest or other distribution out of assets as would constitute a distribution for the purposes of the Corporation Tax Acts by virtue of paragraph (da) of section 209(2),

that interest or distribution out of assets shall be assumed not to constitute such a distribution by virtue of that paragraph.]