106(1)Section 826 of ICTA (interest on tax overpaid) is amended as follows.U.K.
(2)After subsection (7A) insert—
“(7AA)In any case where—
(a)a company ceases to carry on a trade in an accounting period (“the terminal period”),
(b)as a result of a claim under section 45F of CTA 2010, the whole or any part of a loss made in the trade is relieved for the purposes of corporation tax against profits (of whatever description) of an earlier accounting period (“the earlier period”) which does not fall wholly within the period of 12 months immediately preceding the terminal period, and
(c)a repayment falls to be made of corporation tax paid for the earlier period or of income tax in respect of a payment received by the company in that accounting period,
then, in determining the amount of interest (if any) payable under this section on the repayment referred to in paragraph (c) above, no account shall be taken of so much of the amount of that repayment as falls to be made as a result of the claim under section 45F, except so far as concerns interest for any time after the date on which any corporation tax for the terminal period became (or, as the case may be, would have become) due and payable, as mentioned in subsection (7D) below).”
(3)In subsection (7D) (meaning of references to the date on which corporation tax became payable) after “(7A),” insert “ (7AA), ”.
(4)In subsection (7E) (power conferred by section 59E of TMA 1970 not to include power to change the meaning of references to the date on which corporation tax became payable) after “(7A),” insert “ (7AA) ”.