Finance Act 1972

Contents of return

2 (1) Subject to paragraph 7(2) below, the return made by a company for any return period shall show—

(a) the amount of the franked payments made by it in that period;

(b) the amount of franked investment income, if any, received by it in that period ; and

(c) if any advance corporation tax is payable in respect of those payments, the amount thereof.

(2) The return shall specify whether any amount of franked payments is included under paragraph (a) of the foregoing sub-paragraph in consequence of the giving of a notice under the proviso to section 256(1) of the Taxes Act and, if so, the amount so included.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of sub-paragraph (1) above the amount of franked investment income received by a company in a return period shall be treated as including the excess, if any, of—

(a) any surplus of franked investment income carried forward to the accounting period for which the return is made ; and

(b) any amount of franked investment income received by the company in that accounting period but before the beginning of the return period,

over the amount of any franked payments made by the company in that accounting period but before the beginning of the return period.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of sub-paragraph (1) above advance corporation tax shall be payable in respect of franked payments made in a return period if the amount shown under paragraph (a) of that sub-paragraph exceeds the amount shown under paragraph (b) of that sub-paragraph or no amount is shown under the said paragraph (b); and the amount of that tax shall be calculated at the rate of advance corporation tax in force for the financial year in which the return period ends on an amount which, when that tax is added to it, is equal to that excess or, if no amount is shown under the said paragraph (b), to the amount shown under the said paragraph (a).