Finance (No. 2) Act 1997

3 (1) Section 434 of the Taxes Act 1988 (franked investment income etc) shall be amended as follows. U.K.

(2) For subsection (1) (nothing in section 208 prevents franked investment income or foreign income dividends from being taken into account in computations made for the purposes of section 89(7) of the M1 Finance Act 1989 or section 76(2)) there shall be substituted—

“(1) Section 208 shall not apply in relation to—

(a) the charge to corporation tax on the life assurance profits of an insurance company computed in accordance with the provisions of this Act applicable to Case I of Schedule D; or

(b) any computation of such profits in accordance with those provisions.

(1A) Paragraph 2 of Schedule F shall not have effect for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) or (b) above, but this subsection shall not apply in relation to distributions in respect of which an insurance company is entitled to a tax credit under section 441A.

(1B) The reference in subsection (1) above to the life assurance profits of an insurance company is a reference to the profits of the company—

(a) in respect of its life assurance business; or

(b) in respect of any category of life assurance business which it carries on.”

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(5) Sub-paragraph (2) above has effect in relation to distributions made on or after 2nd July 1997.

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(8) In determining, for the purposes of any claim under section 242 of the Taxes Act 1988 made by virtue of section 434(3) of that Act for an accounting period beginning before 2nd July 1997 and ending on or after that date, the policy holders’ share of the franked investment income from investments held in connection with an insurance company’s life assurance business, there shall be left out of account any distributions which are made on or after 2nd July 1997.

(9) Any amount which, by virtue of sub-paragraph (8) above, is treated as a surplus of franked investment income for the purposes of any such claim as is mentioned in that sub-paragraph shall be disregarded for the purposes of section 20(4) of this Act.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 para. 3(3)(4)(6)(7) repealed (31.7.1998 with effect as mentioned in Sch. 27 Pt. III(2) of the amending Act) by 1998 c. 36, s. 165, Sch. 3, Sch. 27 Pt. III(2) Note

Marginal Citations

M1 1989 c. 26.