Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

Principles for construing rules in accordance with OECD principles U.K.

2 (1) This Schedule shall be construed (subject to paragraphs [F1 9 to 11 below and sections 447(5) and (6) and 694(8) and (9) of CTA 2009]) in such manner as best secures consistency between—

(a) the effect given to paragraph 1 above; and

(b) the effect which, in accordance with the transfer pricing guidelines, is to be given, in cases where double taxation arrangements incorporate the whole or any part of the OECD model, to so much of the arrangements as does so.

(2) In this paragraph “the OECD model” means—

(a) the rules which, at the passing of this Act, were contained in Article 9 of the Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; or

(b) any rules in the same or equivalent terms.

(3) In this paragraph “the transfer pricing guidelines” means—

(a) all the documents published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, at any time before 1st May 1998, as part of their Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations; and

(b) such documents published by that Organisation on or after that date as may for the purposes of this Schedule be designated, by an order made by the Treasury, as comprised in the transfer pricing guidelines.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 28AA para. 2(1) substituted (1.4.2009 with effect in accordance with s. 1329(1) of the amending Act) by Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4), Sch. 1 para. 291(3) (with Sch. 2 Pts. 1, 2)