Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 8A inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 2 paras. 7, 8 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2012 (c. 14), Sch. 2 para. 1(1)
(1)For the purposes of this Part a company (“company A”) is a member of a group at any time if any other company is at that time associated with company A.
(2)The group consists of company A and each company in relation to which the condition in subsection (1) is met.
(3)For the purposes of this section a company (“company B”) is associated with company A at a time (“the relevant time”) if any of the following five conditions is met.
(4)The first condition is that the financial results of company A and company B, for a period that includes the relevant time, meet the consolidation condition.
(5)The second condition is that there is a connection between company A and company B for the accounting period of company A in which the relevant time falls.
(6)The third condition is that, at the relevant time, company A has a major interest in company B or company B has a major interest in company A.
(7)The fourth condition is that—
(a)the financial results of company A and a third company, for a period that includes the relevant time, meet the consolidation condition, and
(b)at the relevant time the third company has a major interest in company B.
(8)The fifth condition is that—
(a)there is a connection between company A and a third company for the accounting period of company A in which the relevant time falls, and
(b)at the relevant time the third company has a major interest in company B.
(9)In this section, the financial results of any two companies for any period meet “the consolidation condition” if—
(a)they are required to be fully comprised in group accounts,
(b)they would be required to be fully comprised in such accounts but for the application of an exemption, or
(c)they are in fact fully comprised in such accounts.
(10)In subsection (9) “group accounts” means accounts prepared under—
(a)section 399 of the Companies Act 2006, or
(b)any corresponding provision of the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom.
(11)The following provisions apply for the purposes of this section—
sections 466 to 471 of CTA 2009 (companies connected for accounting period), and
sections 473 and 474 of CTA 2009 (meaning of “major interest”).
(1)In this Part—
“invention”, in relation to a right to which this Part applies, means the item or process in respect of which the right is granted,
“item” includes any substance,
“the OECD Model Tax Convention” means—
the version of the Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital published in July 2010 by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“the OECD”), or
such other document approved and published by the OECD in place of that (or a later) version or in place of that Convention as is designated for the time being by order made by the Treasury,
“the OECD transfer pricing guidelines” means—
the version of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations published in July 2010 by the OECD, or
such other document approved and published by the OECD in place of that (or a later) version or in place of those Guidelines as is designated for the time being by order made by the Treasury,
including, in either case, such material published by the OECD as part of (or by way of update or supplement to) the version or other document concerned as may be so designated, and
“qualifying residual profit” of a trade, in relation to any accounting period, is the amount obtained by the application of Steps 1 to 4 in section 357C or (as the case may be) section 357DA in relation to the trade for the accounting period.
(2)Any reference in this Part to calculating the profits of a trade of a company for an accounting period is a reference to calculating those profits for corporation tax purposes (and any reference to the profits or losses of a trade of a company for an accounting period is to be read accordingly).]