Part IV Income Tax, Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax
Chapter II Interest Rate and Currency Contracts
Miscellaneous
172 Partnerships involving qualifying companies.
(1)
Subject to the provisions of this section, this Chapter shall have effect as if qualifying partnerships were qualifying companies.
(2)
A partnership is a qualifying partnership for the purposes of this section if one or more of the partners are qualifying companies.
(3)
Subsections (4) to (6) below apply where—
(a)
one or more of the members of a qualifying partnership are not qualifying companies, and
(b)
as regards one or more qualifying contracts, one or more profits or losses accrue to the partnership for an accounting period.
(4)
Two computations of the profits and losses for the period shall be made under subsection (1) of section 114 of the Taxes Act 1988 (partnerships involving companies: special rules for computing profits and losses)—
(a)
one (the first computation) on the basis that the partnership is a qualifying partnership, and
(b)
the other (the second computation) on the basis that the partnership is not such a partnership.
(5)
The first computation shall be used for the purpose of determining, under subsection (2) of that section, the share or shares of such of the partners as are qualifying companies.
(6)
The second computation shall be used for the purpose of determining, under that subsection, the share or shares of such of the partners as are not qualifying companies.