PART XII SPECIAL CLASSES OF COMPANIES AND BUSINESSES
CHAPTER III UNIT TRUST SCHEMES, DEALERS IN SECURITIES ETC.
Unit trust schemes
F1468AOpen-ended investment companies
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In relation to an open-ended investment company the rate of corporation tax for the financial year 2005 and subsequent financial years shall be deemed to be the rate at which income tax at the F3basic rate is charged for the year of assessment which begins on 6th April in the financial year concerned F2(and section 13 shall not apply).
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In this section “open-ended investment company” means a company incorporated in the United Kingdom to which section 236 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 applies.
C13
Each of the parts of an umbrella company shall be regarded for the purposes of this section as an open-ended investment company and the umbrella company as a whole shall not be so regarded (and shall not, unless an enactment expressly provides otherwise, be regarded as a company for any other purpose of the Tax Acts).
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In subsection (3) “umbrella company” means an open-ended investment company—
a
in respect of which the instrument of incorporation provides arrangements for separate pooling of the contributions of the shareholders and the profits or income out of which payments are to be made to them, and
b
the shareholders of which are entitled to exchange rights in one pool for rights in another,
and a reference to part of an umbrella company is a reference to a separate pool.