Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4)

[F1 PART 15E U.K. Museums and galleries exhibition tax relief

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 15E inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with Sch. 6 paras. 20, 21(1)(a) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), Sch. 6 para. 1 (with Sch. 6 para. 21(3))

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. 15E modified by 2010 c. 4, s. 357UR(3) (as inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 6 para. 20 of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), Sch. 6 para. 17)

C2 Pt. 15E modified (temp.) (with application in accordance with s. 21(1)(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), s. 21(1)(4)

CHAPTER 3 U.K. Museums and galleries exhibition tax relief

Companies qualifying for museums and galleries exhibition tax relief U.K.

1218ZCB Interpretation of section 1218ZCA(3)(b) and (c) U.K.

(1) For the purposes of section 1218ZCA(3)(b) a company is “wholly owned by a charity which maintains a museum or gallery” if condition A or B is met.

(2) Condition A is that—

(a) the company has an ordinary share capital, and

(b) every part of that share capital is owned by—

(i) a charity which maintains a museum or gallery, or

(ii) two charities, each of which maintains a museum or gallery.

(3) Condition B is that—

(a) the company is limited by guarantee,

(b) there are no more than two beneficiaries of the company, and

(c) the beneficiary, or each beneficiary, is—

(i) a charity which maintains a museum or gallery, or

(ii) a company wholly owned by a charity which maintains a museum or gallery.

(4) For the purposes of section 1218ZCA(3)(c) a company is “wholly owned by a local authority” if—

(a) where the company has an ordinary share capital, every part of that share capital is owned by the local authority, or

(b) where the company is limited by guarantee, the local authority is the sole beneficiary of the company.

(5) Ordinary share capital of a company is treated as owned by a charity or a local authority if the charity or local authority (as the case may be)—

(a) directly or indirectly owns that share capital within the meaning of Chapter 3 of Part 24 of CTA 2010, or

(b) would be taken so to own it if references in that Chapter to a body corporate included references to a charity or local authority which is not a body corporate.

(6) A beneficiary of a company is a person who—

(a) is beneficially entitled to participate in the company’s divisible profits, or

(b) will be beneficially entitled to share in any of the company’s net assets available for distribution on its winding up.

(7) In this section “museum or gallery” has the same meaning it has for the purposes of section 1218ZCA.]