Finance Act 1993

168 Insurance companies

(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, this Chapter shall apply in relation to insurance companies as it applies in relation to other qualifying companies.

(2) Regulations may make provision about the treatment for corporation tax purposes of exchange differences arising as regards assets and liabilities held or owed by insurance companies.

(3) Any such provision may be made—

(a) about exchange differences arising as regards assets or liabilities (or both) generally or about a proportion of such differences;

(b) about exchange differences arising as regards prescribed descriptions of assets or liabilities (or both) or about a proportion of such differences;

(c) about exchange differences arising as regards individual assets or liabilities.

(4) Any such provision may be made about assets or liabilities that are qualifying assets or liabilities, or about those that are not, or about both.

(5) Regulations under this section may—

(a) contain exceptions (whether by reference to categories of insurance business or otherwise);

(b) contain provision about the circumstances in which a charge or relief is to arise, its amount, and other matters relating to it;

(c) provide for consequential adjustments in a company’s corporation tax liability;

(d) exclude or modify the effect of any of the provisions of this Chapter.

(6) References in this section to exchange differences are to gains and losses attributable to fluctuations in currency exchange rates.

(7) For the purposes of this section an insurance company is a company to which Part II of the [1982 c. 50.] Insurance Companies Act 1982 applies.