Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

4(1)Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, where any relief under the Corporation Tax Acts is dependent upon the making of a claim or election, the company shall be assumed to have made that claim or election which would give the maximum amount of relief and to have made that claim or election within any time limit applicable to it [F1, except that the company shall be assumed not to have made an election under section 18A of CTA 2009.]U.K.

[F2(1A)Sub-paragraph (2) below applies to any accounting period of the company—

(a)in respect of which [F3an apportionment under section 747(3) falls to be made]; F4. . .

(b)F4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

(2)[F5Where this sub-paragraph applies to an accounting period of the company, then] if, by notice [F6given to an officer of the Board] at any time not later than the expiry of [F7the period of twenty months following the end of the accounting period] or within such longer period as the Board may in any particular case allow, the United Kingdom resident company which has or, as the case may be, any two or more United Kingdom resident companies which together have, a majority interest in the company so request, the company shall be assumed—

(a)not to have made any claim or election specified in the notice; or

(b)to have made a claim or election so specified, being different from one assumed by sub-paragraph (1) above but being one which (subject to compliance with any time limit) could have been made in the case of a company within the charge to corporation tax; or

(c)to have disclaimed or required the postponement, in whole or in part, of an allowance if (subject to compliance with any time limit) a company within the charge to corporation tax could have disclaimed the allowance or, as the case may be, required such a postponement.

[F8(2A)F9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

[F10(2B)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) an election under section 9A of CTA 2010 (designated currency of a UK resident investment company) is not to be regarded as an election upon which relief under the Corporation Tax Acts is dependent, and sub-paragraph (2)(b) does not apply in relation to such an election.

(2C)But if, by notice given to an officer of the Board, the United Kingdom resident company which has or, as the case may be, any two or more United Kingdom resident companies which together have, a majority interest in the company so request, the company shall be assumed (subject to section 9A(2) of CTA 2010) to have made an election under section 9A of that Act in the form specified in the notice (and accordingly that section and section 9B of that Act apply to determine the effect (if any) of that election).]

(3)For the purposes of this paragraph, a United Kingdom resident company has, or two or more United Kingdom resident companies together have, a majority interest in the company if on the apportionment of the company’s chargeable profits for the relevant accounting period under section 747(3) more than half of the amount of those profits—

(a)which are apportioned to all United Kingdom resident companies, and

(b)which give rise to [F11any liability] on any such companies under subsection (4)(a) of that section,

are apportioned to the United Kingdom resident company or companies concerned.

[F12(3A)F13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

(4)In sub-paragraph (3) above “the relevant accounting period” means the accounting period or, as the case may be, the first accounting period in which the relief in question is or would be available in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) above.

Textual Amendments

F2Sch. 24 para. 4(1A) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(5)

F3Words in Sch. 24 para. 4(1A)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 17 para. 37 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 17 para. 19(2); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2

F4Sch. 24 para. 4(1A)(b) and preceding word omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 16 para. 6 of the repealing Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 16 para. 2(6)(d) (with Sch. 16 paras. 7, 8)

F5Words in Sch. 24 para. 4(2) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(6)(a)

F6Words in Sch. 24 para. 4(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 17 para. 37 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 17 para. 19(3)(a); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2

F7Words in Sch. 24 para. 4(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 17 para. 37 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 17 para. 19(3)(b); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2

F8Sch. 24 para. 4(2A) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(7)

F9Sch. 24 para. 4(2A) repealed (with effect in accordance with Sch. 17 para. 37 of the repealing Act by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 17 para. 19(4), Sch. 27 Pt. 3(27), Note; S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2

F10Sch. 24 para. 4(2B)(2C) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 8 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), Sch. 7 para. 5

F11Words in Sch. 24 para. 4(3)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 17 para. 37 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 17 para. 19(5); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2

F12Sch. 24 para. 4(3A) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(8)

F13Sch. 24 para. 4(3A) omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 16 para. 6 of the repealing Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 16 para. 2(6)(e) (with Sch. 16 paras. 7, 8)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Sch. 24 para. 4(1) excluded (with effect in accordance with Sch. 29 Pt. 14 of the affecting Act) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 29 para. 116(3)

C2Sch. 24 para. 4(1) restricted (1.4.2009 with effect in accordance with s. 1329(1) of the amending Act) by Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4), s. 870(4)(5) (with Sch. 2 Pts. 1, 2)

C3Sch. 24 para. 4(2) modified (29.5.2001 with effect in accordance with reg. 1 of the modifying S.I.) by The General Insurance Reserves (Tax) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1757), reg. 8(3)