152Adjustments where life assurance business carried on
(1)This section applies to a member of a multinational group that carries on a life assurance business.
(2)Where amounts charged to the member’s policyholders for taxes payable by the member are reflected in its underlying profits, those profits are to be adjusted to exclude such of those amounts as would (had they not been charged to the policyholders) have formed part of the member’s tax expense amount.
(3)Where returns to the member’s policyholders are not reflected in the member’s underlying profits but corresponding increases or decreases in the liability of the member to the policyholders are so reflected, those profits are to be adjusted so as to reflect those returns to the extent they correspond with those increases or decreases in liability.
(4)In this section “life assurance business” has the meaning it has in section 56 of FA 2012.