8 General scheme of corporation tax.U.K.
(1)Subject to any exceptions provided for by the Corporation Tax Acts, a company shall be chargeable to corporation tax on all its profits wherever arising.
(2)M1 A company shall be chargeable to corporation tax on profits accruing for its benefit under any trust, or arising under any partnership, in any case in which it would be so chargeable if the profits accrued to it directly; and a company shall be chargeable to corporation tax on profits arising in the winding up of the company, but shall not otherwise be chargeable to corporation tax on profits accruing to it in a fiduciary or representative capacity except as respects its own beneficial interest (if any) in those profits.
(3)Corporation tax for any financial year shall be charged on profits arising in that year; but assessments to corporation tax shall be made on a company by reference to accounting periods, and the amount chargeable (after making all proper deductions) of the profits arising in an accounting period shall, where necessary, be apportioned between the financial years in which the accounting period falls.
In relation to accounting periods ending after such day, not being earlier than 31st March 1992, as the Treasury may by order appoint for the purposes of this subsection, this subsection shall have effect with the substitution for “assessments to corporation tax shall be made on a company” of “corporation tax shall be computed and chargeable (and any assessments shall accordingly be made)”.
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Textual Amendments
F1S. 8(4)-(6) repealed (27.7.1993 with application in relation to resolutions passed after the day on which 1993 c. 34 is passed) by 1993 c. 34, ss. 205(7), 206(1), 213, Sch. 23 Pt.VI
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 8(3): the day appointed for the purposes of s. 8(3) is 30.9.1993 by S.I. 1992/3066, art. 2(2)(b).
Marginal Citations
M1Source—1970 s.243 (1)-(3), (5)-(7); 1974 s.36; 1987(No. 2) s.90(1)(a)