SCHEDULE 14 Loan relationships: minor and consequential amendments
The Taxes Act 1988
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“(3A)
For the purposes of corporation tax subsection (3) above shall have effect as if the following Case were substituted for Cases III and IV, that is to say—
Case III:
tax in respect of—
(a) profits and gains which, as profits and gains arising from loan relationships, are to be treated as chargeable under this Case by virtue of Chapter II of Part IV of the Finance Act 1996;
(b) any annuity or other annual payment which—
(i) is payable (whether inside or outside the United Kingdom and whether annually or at shorter or longer intervals) in respect of anything other than a loan relationship; and
(ii) is not a payment chargeable under Schedule A;
(c) any discount arising otherwise than in respect of a loan relationship;
and as if Case V did not include tax in respect of any income falling within paragraph (a) of the substituted Case III.”
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“(4A)
This section and section 56A shall not apply for the purposes of corporation tax except in relation to rights in existence before 1st April 1996.
(4B)
For the purposes of corporation tax, where any profits or gains arising from the disposal or exercise of a right in existence before 1st April 1996 are, or (if there were any) would be, chargeable under this section, nothing in Chapter II of Part IV of the Finance Act 1996 (loan relationships) shall require any amount relating to that disposal, or to the exercise of that right, to be brought into account for the purposes of that Chapter.”
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In section 70(3) of that Act (extension of Cases IV and V of Schedule D to non-resident companies), for “Cases IV and V” there shall be substituted “
Cases III and V
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F18
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F29
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(1)
Section 78 of that Act (discounted bills of exchange) shall cease to have effect except in relation to bills of exchange drawn before 1st April 1996.
(2)
Where any bill so drawn is paid on or after 1st April 1996—
(a)
the amount which subsection (2) of that section provides to be treated as a deduction against total profits and as a charge on income shall (instead of being so treated) be brought into account for the purposes of this Chapter as a non-trading debit; and
(b)
that amount shall be the only amount brought into account for the purposes of this Chapter in respect of the discount in question.
F311
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F412
(1)
“(f)
the setting of amounts against profits in pursuance of a claim under section 83 of the Finance Act 1996 (non-trading deficits on loan relationships) or paragraph 4 of Schedule 11 to that Act (deficits of insurance companies).”
(2)
“(e)
if and so far as the purpose for which the claim is made is the setting of an amount against profits in pursuance of a claim under—
(i)
section 83 of the Finance Act 1996 (non-trading deficits on loan relationships), or
(ii)
paragraph 4 of Schedule 11 to that Act (deficits of insurance companies),
the time limit that by virtue of subsection (6) of that section or sub-paragraph (15) of that paragraph would be applicable to such a claim.”
F513
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(1)
In subsection (2)(b) of section 337 of that Act (deduction of yearly interest etc. in computing income), for “yearly interest, annuity or other annual payment” there shall be substituted “
annuity or other annual payment which is not interest
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(2)
Subsection (3) of that section (deduction of yearly interest payable to a bank) shall cease to have effect.
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“337A Interest payable by companies.
No deduction shall be made in respect of interest in computing a company’s income from any source except in accordance with Chapter II of Part IV of the Finance Act 1996 (loan relationships).”
F616
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Sections 338A, 340 and 341 of that Act (charges on income to include certain loans to buy land, provisions relating to interest payable to non-residents and provisions relating to payments between related companies) shall cease to have effect.
F718
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F819
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(1)
“(1AA)
Subsection (1) above shall not apply to any expenditure in relation to which any debit falls, or (but for subsection (1AB) below) would fall, to be brought into account for the purposes of Chapter II of Part IV of the Finance Act 1996 (loan relationships).
(1AB)
Where, in the case of any company—
(a)
a non-trading debit is given for any accounting period for the purposes of Chapter II of Part IV of the Finance Act 1996 (loan relationships), and
(b)
an election for the purposes of this section is made by that company with respect to that debit within the period of 2 years beginning with the end of that accounting period,
that debit shall not be brought into account for the purposes of that Chapter as a non-trading debit for that period, but subsection (1AC) below shall apply instead.
(1AC)
If a company—
(a)
begins to carry on a trade within the period of seven years after the end of the accounting period for which a non-trading debit is given for the purposes of Chapter II of Part IV of the Finance Act 1996 (loan relationships),
(b)
that debit is such that, if it had been given for the accounting period in which the company begins to carry on that trade, it would have been brought into account by reference to that trade in accordance with section 82(2) of that Act (trading debits and credits), and
(c)
an election is or has been made with respect to that debit under subsection (1AB) above,
that debit shall be treated for the purposes of that Chapter as if it were a debit for the accounting period in which the company begins to carry on the trade and shall be brought into account for that period in accordance with section 82(2) of that Act.”
(2)
Subsection (1A) of that section shall cease to have effect.
F921
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F1022
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F1123
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Where this Chapter has effect in relation to any accounting period in relation to which section 434B of that Act (treatment of interest and annuities in the case of insurance companies) has effect without the amendments made by section 165 of this Act, that section of that Act shall have effect in relation to that period as if the words “interest or”, in each place where they occur, were omitted.
F1225
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F1326
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F1427
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(1)
“(a)
liability to pay the dividends or interest shall be treated for the purposes of Chapter II of Part IV of the Finance Act 1996 as a liability arising under a loan relationship of the building society;
(aa)
if the dividends or interest are payable to a company, they shall be treated for those purposes as payable to that company in pursuance of a right arising under a loan relationship of that company;”.
(2)
Subsections (3A) to (3C) of that section shall cease to have effect.
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Sections 484 and 485 of that Act (savings banks: exemption from tax) shall cease to have effect.
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In section 486 of that Act (industrial and provident societies)—
(a)
in subsection (1), for the words from “and, subject to subsection (7)” onwards there shall be substituted “
but interest payable by such a society (whether as share interest or loan interest) shall be treated for the purposes of corporation tax as interest under a loan relationship of the society.
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; and
(b)
in subsection (7), for the words from “not be deductible” onwards there shall be substituted “
not be brought into account in that period for the purposes of Chapter II of Part IV of the Finance Act 1996 (loan relationships).
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(1)
“(b)
no credits shall be brought into account for the purposes of Chapter II of Part IV of the Finance Act 1996 in respect of any loan relationship of a credit union as respects which a member of the union stands in the position of a debtor as respects the debt in question.”
(2)
In subsection (3) of that section—
(a)
for “No share interest, loan interest or annuity or other annual payment” there shall be substituted “
An annuity or other annual payment (not being a payment of share interest or loan interest) which is
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; and
(b)
after “shall” there shall be inserted “
not
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(3)
“(3A)
No debits shall be brought into account for the purposes of Chapter II of Part IV of the Finance Act 1996 in respect of any loan relationship of a credit union as respects which a member of the union stands in the position of a creditor as respects the debt in question.”
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F15(1)
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F15(2)
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F15(3)
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F16(4)
“(4)
Subsection (7) of section 403 shall have effect as if the reference in that subsection to the profits of the surrendering company for an accounting period did not include the relevant part of the company’s ring fence profits for that period.
(5)
For the purposes of subsection (4) above the relevant part of a company’s ring fence profits for an accounting period are—
(a)
if for that period—
(i)
there are no charges on income paid by the company that are allowable under section 338, or
(ii)
the only charges on income so allowable are charges to which subsection (3) above applies,
all the company’s ring fence profits; and
(b)
in any other case, so much of its ring fence profits as exceeds the amount of the charges on income paid by the company as are so allowable for that period and are not charges to which subsection (3) above applies.”
F1733
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“(2A)
The reference in subsection (2) above to interest on sums forming part of a fund include references to any amount which is treated as income by virtue of paragraph 1 of Schedule 13 to the Finance Act 1996 (relevant discounted securities) and derives from any investment forming part of that fund.”
F1835
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F1936
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F2037
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F2138
In section 737(5A) of that Act (relief in respect of manufactured dividends), after “a manufactured dividend” there shall be inserted “
that is not manufactured interest to which section 97 of the Finance Act 1996 applies
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F2239
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F2340
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F2441
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F2442
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F2443
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F2444
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F2445
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F2446
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F2447
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(1)
In subsection (7C) of section 826 of that Act (interest on tax overpaid)—
(a)
in paragraph (a), for the words from “a relievable amount” to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted “
a non-trading deficit on the company’s loan relationships,
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;
(b)
in paragraph (b), for the words from “subsection (5)” to “subsection (10) of that section)” there shall be substituted “
section 83(2)(c) of the Finance Act 1996 or paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 11 to that Act the whole or part of the deficit for the later period is set off against profits
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; and
(c)
in the words after paragraph (c), for “subsection (5) or (6) (as the case may be) of that section” there shall be substituted “
section 83(2)(c) of that Act or, as the case may be, paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 11 to that Act
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F25(2)
In subsection (7CA) of that section, for the words “section 131(5) or (6) of the Finance Act 1993”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted “
section 83(2)(c) of the Finance Act 1996 or paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 11 to that Act
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““loan relationship” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of Chapter II of Part IV of the Finance Act 1996;
“non-trading deficit”, in relation to a company’s loan relationships, shall be construed in accordance with section 82 of the Finance Act 1996.”
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Schedule 4 to that Act (deep discount securities) shall cease to have effect.
F2651
“(e)
the setting of amounts against profits under, or in pursuance of a claim under, paragraph 4 of Schedule 11 to the Finance Act 1996 (loan relationships of insurance companies).”
F2752
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“(f)
any non-trading deficit on its loan relationships.”
F2854
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