26Quarterly instalment paymentsU.K.
(1)The Corporation Tax (Instalment Payments) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/3175) are amended as follows.
(2)At the end of regulation 3 (large and very large companies) insert—
“(11)A company which—
(a)is chargeable to corporation tax for an accounting period only because of a chargeable gain accruing to the company on the disposal of an asset, and
(b)would, apart from this paragraph, be a very large company by virtue of this regulation in respect of the accounting period,
is to be treated for the purposes of these regulations as if it were a large company by virtue of paragraph (1).”
(3)In regulation 3(10), in the words before paragraph (a), after “12 months” insert “ and paragraph (11) does not apply ”.
(4)The amendments made by this section have effect in relation to accounting periods beginning on or after 11 March 2020.