Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010

268 Lending activities and activities ancillary to lending activities U.K.

(1) In this Chapter “lending activities” means any of the following activities—

(a) acceptance of deposits or other repayable funds,

(b) lending of money, including consumer credit, mortgage credit, factoring (with or without recourse) and financing of commercial transactions (including forfeiting),

(c) finance leasing (as lessor),

(d) issuing and administering means of payment,

(e) provision of guarantees or commitments to provide money,

(f) money transmission services,

(g) provision of alternative finance arrangements, and

(h) other activities carried out in connection with activities falling within any of paragraphs (a) to (g).

(2) Activities that are ancillary to lending activities are not qualifying activities for the purposes of this Chapter if the income derived from the ancillary activities forms a significant part of the total of—

(a) that income, and

(b) the income derived from lending activities of the worldwide group in the period of account.

(3) In subsection (2) “income” means the gross income or net income that would be taken into account for the purposes of section 266 in calculating the UK or worldwide trading income of the worldwide group for the period of account.

(4) The Commissioners may by order—

(a) amend subsection (1), and

(b) make other amendments of this section in consequence of any amendment of subsection (1).

(5) In subsection (1)(h), and in the references to ancillary activities in this section and section 267(a), “activities” includes buying, holding, managing and selling assets.

(6) In this section “alternative finance arrangements” has the same meaning as in Chapter 6 of Part 6 of CTA 2009.