PART VI COMPANY DISTRIBUTIONS, TAX CREDITS ETC

CHAPTER V ADVANCE CORPORATION TAX AND FRANKED INVESTMENT INCOME

244 Further provisions relating to claims under section 242 or 243.
(1) Without prejudice to section 242(9) or 243(7), the surplus of franked investment income for an accounting period for which a claim is made under either of those sections shall be calculated without regard to any part of that surplus which, when the claim is made, has been used to frank distributions made by the company in a later accounting period.
Source—1972 s.90(2), (3); 1973 Sch.13 9
(2) Where in consequence of a claim under either section 242 or section 243 for any accounting period a company is entitled to payment of a sum in respect of tax credit—
(a) an amount equal to that sum shall be deducted from any advance corporation tax which apart from this subsection would fall, under section 239, to be set against the company’s liability to corporation tax for the next accounting period or the benefit of which could be surrendered under section 240; and
(b) if that amount exceeds that advance corporation tax or there is no such advance corporation tax, that excess or that amount (as the case may be) shall be carried forward and similarly deducted in relation to the following accounting period and so on.
Pt. 6 modified by Airports Act 1986 (c. 31), s. 77(3) (as substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 105(1) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 14 para. 3 (with Sch. 15))
Pt. 6 modified by Gas Act 1986 (c. 44), s. 60(3) (as substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 105(1) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 14 para. 4 (with Sch. 15))
Pt. 6 modified by British Steel Act 1988 (c. 35), s. 11(7) (as substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 105(1) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 14 para. 55 (with Sch. 15))