Finance Act 2012

35 (1) This paragraph applies in relation to assets of an insurance company carrying on life assurance business which were assets of the shareholder fund of the company for the period of account ending immediately before 1 January 2013. U.K.

(2) Those assets are, in relation to times on or after that date, to be regarded for the purposes of this Part as assets forming part of the long-term business fixed capital of the company (whether or not they would otherwise be so regarded).

(3) An asset is an “asset of the shareholder fund of an insurance company for the period of account ending immediately before 1 January 2013” if it is shown in any of lines 11 to 102 of Form 13 in the company's periodical return ending immediately before that date in respect of assets other than those of its long-term business.

(4) But an asset is not to be regarded as an asset of the shareholder fund for that period of account if for any accounting period ending before 1 January 2013—

(a) income arising from the asset was, or chargeable gains or allowable losses accruing on any part disposal of the asset for the purposes of TCGA 1992 were, taken into account for the purposes of the charge to corporation tax on the I minus E basis, or

(b) income arising from the asset was taken into account in calculating the profits of the company in respect of its life assurance business in accordance with the provisions applicable for the purposes of the taxation of such profits under section 35 of CTA 2009 (charge on trade profits).