Finance Act 2000

50 Phasing out of relief for payments to trustees of profit sharing schemes

(1) This section has effect to phase out deductions under section 85 of the Taxes Act 1988 (corporation tax relief for payments to trustees of approved profit sharing schemes).

(2) In the case of sums paid to the trustees on or after 21st March 2000 and before 6th April 2002 no deduction may be made by virtue of subsection (2)(a) of that section (sums applied in acquiring shares for appropriation) unless the trustees appropriate the shares acquired, by the application of the sum, as mentioned in that provision—

(a) before the end of the period of nine months beginning on the day following the end of the period of account in which payment to the trustees was made, and

(b) before 1st January 2003.

(3) No deduction may be made by virtue of subsection (2)(a) of that section in respect of any sum paid to the trustees on or after 6th April 2002.

(4) No deduction may be made by virtue of subsection (2)(b) of that section (sums to meet expenses of trustees in administering the scheme) in respect of any sum paid to the trustees more than three years after the date of the last appropriation of shares to individuals which was made—

(a) in accordance with the approved profit sharing scheme, and

(b) before 1st January 2003.

(5) For the purposes of this section references to a deduction under section 85 are to a deduction under subsection (1)(a) or by virtue of subsection (1)(b) of that section.