Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4)

Part 7 U.K. Derivative contracts

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. 7 modified (with effect in accordance with s. 1184(1) of the amending Act) by Corporation Tax Act 2010 (c. 4), ss. 601, 1184(1) (with Sch. 2)

C2 Pt. 7 modified (with effect in accordance with s. 148 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2012 (c. 14), s. 88(1)(2)(7) (with s. 147, Sch. 17)

C3 Pt. 7 modified by 2007 c. 3, s. 809FZZ(8) (as inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 37(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2016 (c. 24), s. 37(2))

Chapter 8 U.K. Further provision about chargeable gains and derivative contracts

Treatment of net gains and losses on exercise of option U.K.

671 Meaning of G, L and CV in section 670 U.K.

(1) This section applies for the purposes of section 670.

(2) G is the sum of the amounts of any chargeable gains treated as accruing to the company under section 641(3)(a) (derivative contracts to be taxed on a chargeable gains basis) in respect of the derivative contract in each relevant accounting period, so far as referable, on a just and reasonable apportionment, to the shares acquired as a result of the exercise of rights mentioned in section 670(1)(c).

(3) L is the sum of the amounts of any allowable losses treated as accruing to the company under section 641(3)(b) in respect of the derivative contract in each relevant accounting period, so far as so referable.

(4) CV is the amount by which the [F1 tax-adjusted carrying value] of the host contract at the date on which the option is exercised exceeds the [F1 tax-adjusted carrying value] of that contract at—

(a) the date on which the company became a party to the creditor relationship mentioned in section 645(2), or

(b) (if later) the date on which the derivative contract became one to which section 645 applies.

(5) In this section—

• “the host contract” means the loan relationship to which the company is treated as a party under section 415(2) (loan relationships with embedded derivatives) because of the creditor relationship mentioned in section 645(2), and

• “relevant accounting period” means—

  (a)

  the accounting period in which the disposal in question is made, or

  (b)

  any previous accounting period.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 671(4) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 Pt. 6 of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2015 (c. 33), Sch. 7 para. 85