Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

486 Industrial and provident societies and co-operative associations. U.K.

(1) M1 Notwithstanding anything in the Tax Acts, share interest or loan interest paid by a registered industrial and provident society shall not be treated as a distribution [F1 for the purposes of corporation tax]F2 . . . .

(2) F3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) F3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) F4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5) F5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(6) F3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(7) F4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(8) If in the course of, or as part of, a union or amalgamation of two or more registered industrial and provident societies, or a transfer of engagements from one registered industrial and provident society to another, there is a disposal of an asset by one society to another, both shall be treated for the purposes of corporation tax in respect of chargeable gains as if the asset were acquired from the society making the disposal for a consideration of such amount as would secure that neither a gain nor a loss would accrue to that society on the disposal.

(9) Subsections (1) and (8) above shall have effect as if references to a registered industrial and provident society included any co-operative association established and resident in the United Kingdom, and having as its object or primary object to assist its members in the carrying on of agricultural or horticultural businesses on land occupied by them in the United Kingdom or in the carrying on of businesses consisting in the catching or taking of fish or shellfish.

(10) F6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(11) F6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(12) In this section—

• “co-operative association” means a body of persons having a written constitution from which the Minister is satisfied, having regard to the provision made as to the manner in which the income of the body is to be applied for the benefit of its members and all other relevant provisions, that the body is in substance a co-operative association;

• “the Minister” means—

• the [F7 Secretary of State], as regards England and Wales;

• the Secretary of State, as regards Scotland; and

• the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, as regards Northern Ireland;

• F8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• “share interest” means any interest, dividend, bonus or other sum payable to a shareholder of the society by reference to the amount of his holding in the share capital of the society;

• “loan interest” means any interest payable by the society in respect of any mortgage, loan, loan stock or deposit;

and references to the payment of share interest or loan interest include references to the crediting of such interest.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 486(1) inserted (6.4.2005 with effect in accordance with s. 883(1) of the amending Act) by Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (c. 5), Sch. 1 para. 188(2)(a) (with Sch. 2)

F2 Words in s. 486(1) repealed (1.4.2009 with effect in accordance with s. 1329(1) of the repealing Act) by Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4), Sch. 1 para. 163(2), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 2 Pts. 1, 2)

F3 S. 486(2)(3)(6) repealed (6.4.2007 with effect in accordance with s. 1034(1) of the repealing Act) by Income Tax Act 2007 (c. 3), Sch. 1 para. 90(2), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 2)

F4 S. 486(4)(7) repealed (1.4.2009 with effect in accordance with s. 1329(1) of the repealing Act) by Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4), Sch. 1 para. 163(3), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 2 Pts. 1, 2)

F5 S. 486(5) repealed (6.4.2005 with effect in accordance with s. 883(1) of the repealing Act) by Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (c. 5), Sch. 1 para. 188(4), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 2)

F6 S. 486(10)(11) repealed (1.4.2009 with effect in accordance with s. 1329(1) of the repealing Act) by Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4), Sch. 1 para. 163(4), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 2 Pts. 1, 2)

F7 Words in s. 486(12) substituted (27.3.2002) by The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 31

F8 S. 486(12): definition of "registered industrial and provident society" repealed (1.4.2009 with effect in accordance with s. 1329(1) of the repealing Act) by Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4), Sch. 1 para. 163(5), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 2 Pts. 1, 2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 See 1988(F) Sch.8 para.1—re-basing to 1982.

C2 S. 486(8) excluded (with effect in accordance with s. 131(4) of the affecting Act) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), s. 131(1)(2)(b)

C3 S. 486(8) excluded by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 117A(7)(8)(b), 117B(5)(6)(b) (as inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 105(1) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 14 para. 62 (with Sch. 15))

Marginal Citations

M1 Source—1970 s.340, 345; CUA 1979 s.25(2)