Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

F1 1 (1) An insurance company carrying on pension business shall for each provisional repayment period in an accounting period be entitled on a claim made in that behalf to a payment (in this Schedule referred to as a “provisional repayment”) of an amount equal to the aggregate of—

(a) the appropriate portion of any income tax borne by deduction on any payment received by the company in that provisional repayment period and referable to its pension business, and

(b) the appropriate portion of any tax credit in respect of a distribution received by the company in that provisional repayment period and referable to its pension business,

or of such lesser amount as may be specified in the claim.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, a “provisional repayment period” of a company—

(a) shall begin whenever—

(i) the company begins to carry on pension business;

(ii) an accounting period of the company begins, at a time when the company is carrying on such business; or

(iii) a provisional repayment period of the company ends, at a time when the company is carrying on such business; and

(b) shall end on the first occurrence of either of the following—

(i) the expiration of three months from the beginning of the provisional repayment period; or

(ii) the end of an accounting period of the company.

(3) In the application of subsections (5) to (9) of section 432A for the purpose of determining the amounts to which a company is entitled by way of provisional repayments in the case of any accounting period, the reference in subsection (5) to “the relevant fraction” shall be taken as a reference to a fraction determined in accordance with subsections (6) to (9)—

(a) for the latest preceding accounting period of the company for which an inspector is satisfied that the company has supplied him with such information as would enable the relevant fraction for that accounting period to be estimated with reasonable accuracy, and

(b) by reference to that information,

and, subject to sub-paragraph (4)(b) below, any reference in this paragraph to “the provisional fraction” is a reference to the fraction so determined.

(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) above—

(a) “information” means any information, accounts, statements or reports delivered under section 11 of the Management Act; and

(b) unless and until an inspector is satisfied as mentioned in paragraph (a) of that sub-paragraph, the provisional fraction shall be taken to be nil.

(5) In sub-paragraph (1) above “the appropriate portion” means—

(a) in the case of an insurance company carrying on pension business and no other category of long term business, the whole; and

(b) in the case of an insurance company carrying on more than one category of long term business—

(i) where the payment or distribution in question is income arising from an asset [F2 linked] to pension business, the whole; and

(ii) in any other case, the provisional fraction.

(6) An inspector shall not give effect to any claim under this paragraph unless and until he is satisfied that the claimant has supplied to him in connection with the claim such information as will enable the inspector to determine that the amount claimed has been computed in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph.

(7) A provisional repayment for a provisional repayment period shall be regarded as a payment on account of the amount (if any) which, disregarding any pension business repayments, the company would be entitled to be paid or repaid in respect of its pension business by the Board for the accounting period in which that provisional repayment period falls, in respect of—

(a) income tax borne by deduction on payments received by the company in that accounting period and referable to its pension business, and

(b) tax credits in respect of distributions received by the company in that accounting period and referable to its pension business,

when the assessment to corporation tax for that accounting period is finally determined or when effect is given to a claim such as is mentioned in section 7(6) or in section 42(5A) of the Management Act made in respect of that accounting period.

(8) Where a company makes an election under section 438(6) as respects all or any part of its franked investment income arising in an accounting period, that franked investment income or, as the case may be, that part of it, and the tax credits in respect thereof, shall be left out of account in making with respect to that accounting period any determination for the purposes of this paragraph or of paragraph 2 or 3 below of the amount referred to in sub-paragraph (7) above.

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(10) In this paragraph “pension business repayments” means—

(a) provisional repayments; and

(b) repayments of income tax, and payments of tax credits, on any claim such as is mentioned in section 7(6) or in section 42(5A) of the Management Act.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 19AB inserted (25.7.1991 with effect as mentioned in s. 49(3) in relation to accounting periods beginning on or after 2.10.1992) by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 63:1), s. 49, Sch. 8; S.I. 1992/1746, art. 2

F2 Word in Sch. 19AB para. 1(5)(b)(i) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 8 para. 57(1) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), Sch. 8 para. 12(1)(b) (with s. 55(2))

F3 Sch. 19AB para. 1(9) repealed (27.7.1993 with effect as mentioned in s. 103(3)(4) of the amending Act) by 1993 c. 34, s. 103(2)(h)(3)(4), 213, Sch. 23 Pt. III(9)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 19AB para. 1(8) amended (27.7.1993 with application as mentioned in s. 78(11) of the amending Act) by 1993 c. 34, s. 78(6)(11)