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[F11(1)Section 240 of the Taxes Act 1988 (set-off of company’s advance corporation tax against subsidiary’s liability to corporation tax) shall be amended as follows.U.K.
(2)For subsection (1) there shall be substituted the following subsections—
“(1)Where a company (“the surrendering company”) has paid an amount of advance corporation tax in respect of a dividend or dividends paid by it in an accounting period, it may under this section surrender the benefit of so much of that amount as is available for surrender, or any part of that amount that is available for surrender, to any company which was a subsidiary of it throughout that accounting period.
(1A)The surrender shall take effect on the surrendering company making a claim in accordance with Schedule 13A.
(1B)A claim to surrender an amount exceeding the amount the benefit of which, at the time the claim is made, is available for surrender shall be of no effect.”
(3)For subsections (6) and (7) there shall be substituted the following subsections—
“(5A)A claim under subsection (1A) above may be withdrawn by the surrendering company with the consent of the subsidiary to whom the surrender was made.
(5B)The withdrawal of a claim under subsection (1A) above to make a surrender for an accounting period of the surrendering company shall not prevent the making of a further claim under that subsection for that accounting period (whether to the same or a different subsidiary).
(5C)Where the surrendering company withdraws a claim by virtue of which an amount of advance corporation tax was treated under subsection (2) above as paid by its subsidiary in respect of a distribution made on a date determined under that subsection—
(a)the subsidiary shall be treated as if it had not paid that amount in respect of a distribution made by it on the date so determined; and
(b)subject to the effect of any further claim, the surrendering company shall be treated as having paid a corresponding amount of advance corporation tax in respect of a distribution made by it on the date so determined.
(5D)The amount of advance corporation tax the benefit of which is at any time available for surrender is the amount referred to in subsection (1) above less any amount which at that time falls within subsection (5E) below.
(5E)The amounts are—
(a)any amount which has been repaid to the surrendering company;
(b)any amount which has been dealt with under section 239(3);
(c)any amount surrendered under a claim for that period which has not been withdrawn.
(5F)Subject to subsection (5C)(b) above, no amount of advance corporation tax the benefit of which has been surrendered under this section shall be treated for the purposes of section 239 as advance corporation tax paid by the surrendering company.”
(4)After subsection (13) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(14)Schedule 13A (which makes supplementary provision with respect to surrenders of advance corporation tax) shall have effect.”]
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F1Sch. 25 repealed (31.7.1998 with effect in accordance with Sch. 3 of the amending Act) by 1998 c. 36, s. 165, Sch. 27 Pt. III(2), Note
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