Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. 18 modified (3.5.1994) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), Sch. 20 para. 10 (as amended by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), s. 122(4)(5)) (with Sch. 20 para. 12(2)(a))
C2Pt. 18 applied (with effect in accordance with Sch. 29 Pt. 14 of the affecting Act) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 29 para. 87
C3Pt. 18 modified (22.7.2004) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), s. 107(5)
C4Pt. 18 applied by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 9 para. 12E(5) (as inserted (29.11.2007 with effect in accordance with regs. 1(2), 3(1) of the amending S.I. (as amended by S.I. 2008/1579, reg. 4(1))) by The Corporation Tax (Implementation of the Mergers Directive) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3186), Sch. 1 para. 16)
C5Pt. 18 applied by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 26 para. 30E(5) (as inserted (29.11.2007 with effect in accordance with regs. 1(2), 3(1) of the amending S.I. (as amended by S.I. 2008/1579, reg. 4(1))) by The Corporation Tax (Implementation of the Mergers Directive) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3186), Sch. 1 para. 19)
C6Pt. 18 applied by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 9 para. 12C(3) (as substituted (29.11.2007 with effect in accordance with regs. 1(2), 3(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Corporation Tax (Implementation of the Mergers Directive) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3186), Sch. 2 para. 8)
C7Pt. 18 applied by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 26 para. 30C(3) (as substituted (29.11.2007 with effect in accordance with regs. 1(2), 3(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Corporation Tax (Implementation of the Mergers Directive) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3186), Sch. 2 para. 10)
C8Pt. 18 applied by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 29 para. 87A(3) (as substituted (29.11.2007 with effect in accordance with regs. 1(2), 3(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Corporation Tax (Implementation of the Mergers Directive) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3186), Sch. 2 para. 12)
C9Pt. 18 applied by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 140H(3), 140I(3), 140J(3) (as inserted (29.11.2007 with effect in accordance with regs. 1(2), 3(3) of the amending S.I. (as amended by S.I. 2008/1579, reg. 4(2))) by The Corporation Tax (Implementation of the Mergers Directive) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3186), Sch. 3 para. 1)
C10Pt. 18 applied by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 9 paras. 12H(3), 12I(3) (as inserted (29.11.2007 with effect in accordance with regs. 1(2), 3(3) of the amending S.I. (as amended by S.I. 2008/1579, reg. 4(2))) by The Corporation Tax (Implementation of the Mergers Directive) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3186), Sch. 3 para. 2)
C11Pt. 18 applied by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 26 paras. 30G(3), 30H(3) (as inserted (29.11.2007 with effect in accordance with regs. 1(2), 3(3) of the amending S.I. (as amended by S.I. 2008/1579, reg. 4(2))) by The Corporation Tax (Implementation of the Mergers Directive) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3186), Sch. 3 para. 4)
C12Pt. 18 applied by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 29 paras. 85B(3), 85C(3) (as inserted (29.11.2007 with effect in accordance with regs. 1(2), 3(3) of the amending S.I. (as amended by S.I. 2008/1579, reg. 4(2))) by The Corporation Tax (Implementation of the Mergers Directive) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3186), Sch. 3 para. 5)
C13Pt. 18: power to amend conferred (1.4.2009 with effect in accordance with s. 1329(1) of the affecting Act) by Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4), s. 533(2)(3) (with Sch. 2 Pts. 1, 2)
C14Pt. 18 modified (with effect in accordance with s. 56(3) of the modifying Act) by Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), s. 56(1)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C15Pt. 18 Chs. 1, 2 modified (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 277(1), 289 (with ss. 60, 101(1), 171, 201(3))
M1(1)The amount of the credit for foreign tax which under any arrangements is to be allowed against corporation tax in respect of any income or chargeable gain (“the relevant income or gain”) shall not exceed the corporation tax attributable to the relevant income or gain, determined in accordance with [F1the following provisions of this section] below.
(2)M2Subject to [F2subsections (2A) and (3)] below, the amount of corporation tax attributable to the relevant income or gain shall be treated as equal to such proportion of the amount of that income or gain as corresponds to the rate of corporation tax payable by the company (before any credit under this Part) on its income or chargeable gains for the accounting period in which the income arises or the gain accrues (“the relevant accounting period”).
[F3(2A)The provisions of section 11AA (profits attributable to permanent establishment), and of any regulations made under that section, apply, with the necessary modifications, in determining for the purposes of this section how much of the chargeable profits of a company resident in the United Kingdom is attributable to a permanent establishment of the company outside the United Kingdom.]
(3)Where in the relevant accounting period there is any deduction to be made for charges on income, expenses of management [F4expenses payable (within the meaning of section 76(1))] or other amounts which can be deducted from or set against or treated as reducing profits of more than one description—
(a)the company may for the purposes of this section allocate the deduction in such amounts and to such of its profits for that period as it thinks fit; and
(b)the amount of the relevant income or gain shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (2) above as reduced or, as the case may be, extinguished by so much (if any) of the deduction as is allocated to it.
[F5(3A)Where, in a case to which section 797A does not apply, a company has a non-trading deficit on its loan relationships for the relevant accounting period, then for the purposes of subsection (3) above that deficit shall be treated, to the extent that it is an amount to which a claim under—
(a)subsection (2)(a) of section 83 of the Finance Act 1996 (deficit set against current year profits), or
(b)paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 11 to that Act (set-off of deficits in the case of insurance companies),
relates, as an amount that can in that period be set against profits of any description but can be allocated in accordance with subsection (3) above only to the profits against which it is set off in pursuance of the claim.
(3B)For the purposes of subsection (3) above, where—
(a)section 797A does not apply in the case of any company, and
(b)any amount is carried forward to the relevant accounting period in pursuance of [F6subsection (3A) of] section 83 of the Finance Act 1996 F7. . . ,
then that amount must be allocated to non-trading profits of the company for that period (so far as they are sufficient for the purpose) and cannot be allocated to any other profits.]
(4)F8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(5)F8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F9(6)In this section “non-trading profits” has the same meaning as in paragraph 4 of Schedule 8 to the Finance Act 1996.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 797(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 154(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2003 (c. 14), s. 154(2)
F2Words in s. 797(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 154(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2003 (c. 14), s. 154(3)
F3S. 797(2A) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 154(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2003 (c. 14), s. 154(4)
F4Words in s. 797(3) inserted (28.9.2004 with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Finance Act 2004, Sections 38 to 40 and 45 and Schedule 6 (Consequential Amendment of Enactments) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2310), art. 2, Sch. para. 34(2)
F5S. 797(3A)(3B) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 105(1) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 14 para. 42(1) (with Sch. 15)
F6Words in s. 797(3B)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 82(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), Sch. 25 para. 54
F7Words in s. 797(3B)(b) repealed (retrospectively) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), s. 82(2)(a)(4), Sch. 27 Pt. 3(17), Note
F8S. 797(4)(5) repealed (with effect in accordance with Sch. 3 para. 35(3) of the repealing Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 3 para. 35(2), Sch. 27 Pt. 3(2), Note
F9S. 797(6) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 105(1) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 14 para. 42(2) (with Sch. 15)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C16Ss. 797-798C applied (31.12.2006 with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Lloyd's Underwriters (Double Taxation Relief) (Corporate Members) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/3262), reg. 4
Marginal Citations
M1Source—1970 s.505; 1972 s.100(1), (3); 1984 s.53(1)
M2Source—1972 s.100(4)-(6A); 1984 s.53(1); 1986 s.49; 1987 (No.2) s.77