Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

2 (1) In any case where—

(a) an amount of chargeable profits is apportioned to a company resident in the United Kingdom, and

(b) the company has an amount of advance corporation tax which, apart from this paragraph, would, in relation to the appropriate accounting period, be surplus advance corporation tax for the purposes of section 239(3),

then, on the making of a claim, so much of that advance corporation tax as is specified in the claim and does not exceed the relevant maximum shall be set against the company’s liability to tax under section 747(4)(a) in respect of the chargeable profits apportioned to it, to the extent that that liability has not or could not have been relieved by virtue of paragraph 1 above.

(2) So much of any advance corporation tax as, by virtue of this paragraph, is set against the company’s liability to tax under section 747(4)(a) in respect of chargeable profits shall be regarded for the purposes of the Tax Acts as not being surplus advance corporation tax within the meaning of section 239.

(3) In this paragraph “the appropriate accounting period” has the same meaning as in paragraph 1 above and “the relevant maximum”, in relation to the liability to tax referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above, is the amount of advance corporation tax that would have been payable (apart from section 241) in respect of a distribution made at the end of the appropriate accounting period of an amount which, together with the advance corporation tax in respect of it, is equal to—

(a) that amount of the chargeable profits apportioned to the company on which it is chargeable to corporation tax for that accounting period, less

(b) any amount which, for that accounting period, is to be regarded, by virtue of paragraph 1(5) above, as having been allowed as a deduction against the company’s profits.