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(1)[F1M1 Subject to and in accordance with this Chapter and section 492(8)—
(a)relief for trading losses and other amounts eligible for relief from corporation tax, or
(b)losses and other amounts not eligible for relief from corporation tax,
may, in the cases set out] in subsections (2) and (3) below, be surrendered by a company (“the surrendering company”) and, on the making of a claim by another company (“the claimant company”) may be allowed to the claimant company by way of a relief from corporation tax called “group relief”.
[F2(2)In respect of amounts falling within subsection (1)(a) above, group relief shall be available in a case where—
(a)the surrendering company and the claimant company are both members of the same group,
(b)the surrendering company is resident in the United Kingdom or is not so resident but carries on a trade there through a permanent establishment, and
(c)the claimant company is resident in the United Kingdom or is not so resident but carries on a trade there through a permanent establishment,
and, in respect of amounts falling within subsection (1)(b) above, group relief shall be available in a case where the condition in subsection (2A) below is satisfied.
A claim made by virtue of this subsection is referred to as a “group claim”.
(2A)The condition in this subsection is satisfied if the surrendering company is within the charge to tax under the law of any EEA territory and—
(a)the surrendering company is a 75 per cent. subsidiary of the claimant company and the claimant company is resident in the United Kingdom, or
(b)both the surrendering company and the claimant company are 75 per cent. subsidiaries of a third company that is resident in the United Kingdom.
(2B)For the purposes of subsection (2A) above, the surrendering company is within the charge to tax under the law of any EEA territory if—
(a)it is a non-resident company which is resident in any EEA territory, or
(b)it is a non-resident company which is not resident in any EEA territory but which carries on a trade in any EEA territory through a permanent establishment.]
[F3(3A)[F4A consortium claim shall not be made] unless the following condition is satisfied in the case of both the surrendering company and the claimant company.
(3B)The condition is that the company is resident in the United Kingdom or is a non-resident company carrying on a trade in the United Kingdom through a [F5permanent establishment].]
(4)A consortium claim shall not be made F6. . . if a profit on a sale of the share capital of the other company or its holding company which the member owns would be treated as a trading receipt of that member.
(5)M2Subject to the provisions of this Chapter, two or more claimant companies may make claims relating to the same surrendering company, and to the same accounting period of that surrendering company.
(6)A payment for group relief—
(a)shall not be taken into account in computing profits or losses of either company for corporation tax purposes, and
(b)shall not for any of the purposes of the Corporation Tax Acts be regarded as a distribution F7. . . ;
and in this subsection “a payment for group relief” means a payment made by the claimant company to the surrendering company in pursuance of an agreement between them as respects an amount surrendered by way of group relief, being a payment not exceeding that amount.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 402(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 9 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), Sch. 1 para. 1(2)
F2S. 402(2)-(2B) substituted for s. 402(2) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 9 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), Sch. 1 para. 1(3)
F3S. 402(3A)(3B) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 27 para. 6(1)(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2000 (c. 17), Sch. 27 para. 1
F4Words in s. 402(3A) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 9 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), Sch. 1 para. 1(4)
F5Words in s. 402(3B) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 153(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2003 (c. 14), s. 153(1)(a)
F6Words in s. 402(4) repealed (retrospectively) by Finance Act 2000 (c. 17), s. 100(3)(a)(5), Sch. 40 Pt. 2(11), Note 2
F7Words in s. 402(6)(b) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 38 of the repealing Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2005 (c. 22), Sch. 11 Pt. 2(7), Note
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 402(1)(2)(5)(6) applied (with modifications) (31.3.2001 with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the affecting Regulations) by The Double Taxation Relief (Surrender of Relievable Tax Within a Group) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1163), reg. 10
Marginal Citations
M1Source—1970 s.258(1)
M2Source—1970 s.258(3), (4)
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