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6(1)Throughout an accounting period a controlled foreign company is engaged in exempt activities if, and only if, each of the following conditions is fulfilled—
(a)that, throughout that accounting period, the company has a business establishment in the territory in which it is resident; and
(b)that, throughout that accounting period, its business affairs in that territory are effectively managed there; and
(c)that any of sub-paragraphs (2) to (4) below applies to the company.
(2)This sub-paragraph applies to a company if—
(a)at no time during the accounting period in question does the main business of the company consist of either—
(i)investment business, or
(ii)dealing in goods for delivery to or from the United Kingdom or to or from connected or associated persons; and
(b)in the case of a company which is mainly engaged in wholesale, distributive or financial business in that accounting period, less than 50 per cent. of its gross trading receipts from that business is derived directly or indirectly from connected or associated persons [F1or persons who have an interest in the company at any time during that accounting period.].
(3)This sub-paragraph applies to a company which is a holding company if at least 90 per cent. of its gross income during the accounting period in question is derived directly from companies which it controls and which, throughout that period—
(a)are resident in the territory in which the holding company is resident; and
(b)are not themselves holding companies, but otherwise are, in terms of this Schedule, engaged in exempt activities;
and a holding company to which this sub-paragraph applies is in this Part of this Schedule referred to as a “local holding company”.
(4)This sub-paragraph applies to a company which is a holding company, but not a local holding company, if at least 90 per cent. of its gross income during the accounting period in question is derived directly from companies which it controls and which, throughout that period—
(a)are local holding companies; or
(b)are not themselves holding companies (whether local or not), but otherwise are, in terms of this Schedule, engaged in exempt activities.
(5)Any reference in sub-paragraph (3) or (4) above to a company which a holding company controls includes a reference to a trading company in which the holding company holds the maximum amount of ordinary share capital which is permitted under the law of the territory—
(a)in which the trading company is resident; and
(b)from whose laws the trading company derives its status as a company.
(6)The following provisions of this Part of this Schedule have effect in relation to sub-paragraphs (1) to (4) above.
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F1Words in Sch. 25 para. 6(2)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 4(5)
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