Finance Act 1981

22 Corporation tax: small companies

(1) The small companies rate for the financial year 1980 shall be 40 per cent., and for that year the fraction mentioned in subsection (2) of section 95 of the [1972 c. 41.] Finance Act 1972 (marginal relief for small companies) shall be two twenty-fifths.

(2) For the financial year 1980 and subsequent financial years subsection (3) of the said section 95 shall have effect with the substitution for any reference to £70,000 of a reference to £80,000 and with the substitution for any reference to £130,000 of a reference to £200,000.

(3) Where by virtue of subsection (2) above the said section 95 has effect with different relevant amounts in relation to different parts of the same accounting period, those parts shall be treated for the purposes of that section as if they were separate accounting periods and the profits and income of the company for that period (as defined in that section) shall be apportioned between those parts.