Finance Act 2002

1. Introductory Text

2. Part 1 Excise duties

   1. Tobacco products duty

      1. 1. Rates of tobacco products duty

   2. Alcoholic liquor duties

      1. 2. Rates of duty on cider

      2. 3. Duty on beverages made with spirits to be at spirits rate

      3. 4. Reduced rates of duty on beer from small breweries

   3. Hydrocarbon oil duties

      1. 5. Biodiesel

      2. 6. Regulating trade in rebated heavy oil etc

      3. 7. Fuel substitutes

   4. Betting and gaming duties

      1. 8. Amusement machine licences: excepted machines

      2. 9. Amusement machine licence duty: rates

      3. 10. Rates of gaming duty

      4. 11. Gaming duty to be chargeable in respect of sic bo and three card poker

      5. 12. Pool betting duty etc

      6. 13. General betting duty: spread bets

      7. 14. General betting duty: overseas bet-brokers

   5. Vehicle excise duty

      1. 15. Cars registered on or after 1st March 2001: rates of duty

      2. 16. Vans registered on or after 1st March 2001: rates of duty

      3. 17. Disclosure of information for vehicle excise duty exemptions

      4. 18. Motorcycles (and motorcycle trade licences): rates of duty

      5. 19. Registered vehicles etc

      6. 20. Calculating cylinder capacity of vehicles

   6. General

      1. 21. Drawback of excise duty

3. Part 2 Value added tax

   1. 22. Disallowance of input tax where consideration not paid

   2. 23. Flat-rate scheme

   3. 24. Invoices

   4. 25. Relief from VAT on acquisition if importation would attract relief

4. Part 3 Income tax, corporation tax and capital gains tax

   1. Chapter 1 Charge and rate bands

      1. Income tax

         1. 26. Charge and rates for 2002-03

         2. 27. Indexed rate bands for 2002-03: PAYE deductions etc

         3. 28. Personal allowance for 2003-04 for those aged under 65

         4. 29. Personal allowances for 2003-04 for those aged 65 or over

      2. Corporation tax

         1. 30. Charge and main rate for financial year 2003

         2. 31. Small companies' rate and fraction for financial year 2002

         3. 32. Corporation tax starting rate and fraction for financial year 2002

   2. Chapter 2 Other provisions

      1. Employment income and related matters

         1. 33. Employer-subsidised public transport bus services

         2. 34. Car fuel: calculation of cash equivalent of benefit

         3. 35. Statutory paternity pay and statutory adoption pay

         4. 36. Exemption of minor benefits: application to non-cash vouchers

         5. 37. Minor amendments to Schedule E charge

         6. 38. Provision of services through an intermediary: minor amendments

         7. 39. Employee share ownership plans: minor amendments

         8. 40. Treatment of deductions from payments to sub-contractors

         9. 41. Parliamentary visits to EU candidate countries: tax treatment of members' expenses

      2. Chargeable gains

         1. 42. Reallocation within group of gain or loss accruing under section 179

         2. 43. Roll-over of degrouping charge on business assets

         3. 44. Exemptions for disposals by companies with substantial shareholding

         4. 45. Share exchanges and company reconstructions

         5. 46. Taper relief: holding period for business assets

         6. 47. Taper relief: minor amendments

         7. 48. Use of trading losses against chargeable gains

         8. 49. Election to forgo roll-over relief on transfer of business

         9. 50. Shares acquired on same day: election for alternative treatment

         10. 51. Deduction of personal losses from gains treated as accruing to settlors

         11. 52. Capital gains tax: variation of dispositions taking effect on death

      3. New reliefs

         1. 53. Tax relief for expenditure on research and development

         2. 54. Tax relief for expenditure on vaccine research etc

         3. 55. Gifts of medical supplies and equipment

         4. 56. R&D tax relief for small and medium-sized enterprises: minor and consequential amendments

         5. 57. Community investment tax relief

         6. 58. Relief for community amateur sports clubs

      4. Capital allowances and related matters

         1. 59. Cars with low carbon dioxide emissions

         2. 60. Expense of hiring cars with low carbon dioxide emissions

         3. 61. Plant or machinery for gas refuelling station: first-year allowances

         4. 62. Expenditure on green technologies: leasing

         5. 63. First-year allowances for expenditure wholly for a ring fence trade

      5. Computation of profits

         1. 64. Adjustment on change of basis

         2. 65. Postponement of change to mark to market in certain cases

         3. 66. Election to continue postponement of mark to market

         4. 67. Mark to market: miscellaneous amendments

         5. 68. Expenditure involving crime

      6. Financial instruments

         1. 69. Qualifying contracts for unallowable purposes

         2. 70. Forward premiums and discounts under currency contracts

      7. Loan relationships

         1. 71. Accounting method where rate of interest etc is reset

         2. 72. Convertible securities etc: loan relationships

         3. 73. Convertible securities etc: issuing company not to be connected company

         4. 74. Convertible securities etc: debtor relationships

         5. 75. Asset-linked loan relationships

         6. 76. Asset-linked loan relationships involving guaranteed returns

         7. 77. Loan relationships ceasing to be within section 93 of the Finance Act 1996

         8. 78. Guaranteed returns on transactions involving futures and options

      8. Foreign exchange gains and losses, loan relationships and currency

         1. 79. Forex and exchange gains and losses from loan relationships etc

         2. 80. Corporation tax: currency

         3. 81. Transitional provision

      9. Loan relationships and other money debts

         1. 82. Loan relationships: general amendments

      10. Derivative contracts

          1. 83. Derivative contracts

      11. Intangible fixed assets

          1. 84. Gains and losses from intangible fixed assets of company

      12. Insurance

          1. 85. Gains of insurance company from venture capital investment partnership

          2. 86. Lloyd’s underwriters

          3. 87. Life policies etc: chargeable events

      13. International matters

          1. 88. Extension of power to give effect to double taxation arrangements

          2. 89. Controlled foreign companies: territorial exclusions from s.748 exemptions

          3. 90. Controlled foreign companies and treaty non-resident companies

      14. Supplementary charge in respect of ring fence trades

          1. 91. Supplementary charge in respect of ring fence trades

          2. 92. Assessment, recovery and postponement of supplementary charge

          3. 93. Supplementary charge: transitional provisions

      15. Deduction of tax

          1. 94. Deduction of tax: payments to exempt bodies etc

          2. 95. Deduction of tax by persons dealing in financial instruments

          3. 96. Cross-border royalties

      16. Charitable giving

          1. 97. Gifts of real property to charity

          2. 98. Gift aid: election to be treated as if gift made in previous tax year

      17. Films

          1. 99. Restriction of relief to films genuinely intended for theatrical release

          2. 100. Exclusion of deferments from production expenditure

          3. 101. Restriction of relief for successive acquisitions of the same film

      18. Miscellaneous

          1. 102. Distributions: reasonable commercial return for use of principal secured

          2. 103. References to accounting practice and periods of account

          3. 104. Discounted securities etc

          4. 105. Financial trading stock

          5. 106. Valuation of trading stock on transfer of trade

          6. 107. Banks etc in compulsory liquidation

          7. 108. Manufactured dividends and interest

          8. 109. Venture capital trusts

5. Part 4 Stamp duty and stamp duty reserve tax

   1. Stamp duty

      1. 110. Land in disadvantaged areas

      2. 111. Withdrawal of group relief

      3. 112. Restriction of relief for company acquisitions

      4. 113. Withdrawal of relief for company acquisitions

      5. 114. Penalties for late stamping

      6. 115. Contracts for the sale of an estate or interest in land chargeable as conveyances

      7. 116. Abolition of duty on instruments relating to goodwill

   2. Stamp duty and stamp duty reserve tax

      1. 117. Power to extend exceptions relating to recognised exchanges

6. Part 5 Other taxes

   1. Inheritance tax

      1. 118. IHT: rate bands

      2. 119. IHT: powers over, or exercisable in relation to, settled property or a settlement

      3. 120. IHT: variation of dispositions taking effect on death

   2. Air passenger duty

      1. 121. Air passenger duty: extension of area to which EEA rates apply

   3. Landfill tax

      1. 122. Landfill tax: rate

   4. Climate change levy

      1. 123. Climate change levy: electricity produced in combined heat and power station

      2. 124. Climate change levy: certification requirement

      3. 125. Climate change levy: exemption for renewable sources

      4. 126. Climate change levy: electricity produced from coal mine methane

      5. 127. Climate change levy: incorrect certificates

      6. 128. Climate change levy: invoices incorrectly showing levy due

   5. Aggregates levy

      1. 129. Aggregates levy: transitional relief for Northern Ireland

      2. 130. Aggregates levy: amendments to provisions exempting spoil etc

      3. 131. Aggregates levy: crushing and cutting rock

      4. 132. Aggregates levy: miscellaneous amendments

      5. 133. Aggregates levy: amendments to provisions about civil penalties

7. Part 6 Miscellaneous and supplementary provisions

   1. Recovery of taxes etc due in other member States

      1. 134. Recovery of taxes etc due in other member States

   2. Mandatory e-filing

      1. 135. Mandatory e-filing

      2. 136. Use of electronic communications under other provisions

   3. Lorry road-user charge

      1. 137. Lorry road-user charge

   4. Registers of UK gilts

      1. 138. Authority of Bank of England to discharge functions in place of Bank of Ireland

      2. 139. Closure of UK gilts registers kept in Ireland

      3. 140. Administration of UK gilts

   5. Supplementary

      1. 141. Repeals

      2. 142. Interpretation

      3. 143. Short title

8. 1. Schedule 1

      Beer from small breweries: reduced rate of duty

   2. Schedule 2

      Hydrocarbon oil duties: minor and consequential amendments relating to biodiesel

   3. Schedule 3

      Hydrocarbon oil duties: rebated heavy oil etc

      1. Part 1 Regulating traders in rebated heavy oil

      2. Part 2 Minor amendments relating to rebates

   4. Schedule 4

      Pool betting duty etc

      1. Part 1 Amendments of the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981

      2. Part 2 Minor amendments and transitional provisions

   5. Schedule 5

      Vehicle excise duty: registered vehicles etc

   6. Schedule 6

      Minor amendments to Schedule E charge

   7. Schedule 7

      Chargeable gains: roll-over of degrouping charge: modification of enactments

   8. Schedule 8

      Chargeable gains: exemptions in case of substantial shareholding

      1. Part 1 New Schedule 7AC to the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992

      2. Part 2 Consequential amendments

   9. Schedule 9

      Chargeable gains: share exchanges and company reconstructions

      1. Part 1 Provisions replacing sections 135 and 136 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992

      2. Part 2 Consequential amendments

      3. Part 3 Commencement

   10. Schedule 10

       Chargeable gains: taper relief: minor amendments

   11. Schedule 11

       Chargeable gains: deduction of personal losses from gains treated as accruing to settlors

   12. Schedule 12

       Tax relief for expenditure on research and development

       1. Part 1 Entitlement to relief for R&D expenditure: large companies

       2. Part 2 Entitlement to relief for R&D expenditure: work subcontracted to small or medium-sized enterprise

       3. Part 3 The relief

       4. Part 4 Special provision for giving relief to insurance companies

       5. Part 5 Supplementary provisions

       6. Part 6 General provisions

   13. Schedule 13

       Tax relief for expenditure on vaccine research etc

       1. Part 1 Entitlement to relief

       2. Part 2 Manner of giving effect to relief: small and medium-sized companies

       3. Part 3 Manner of giving effect to relief: large companies

       4. Part 4 Special provision for giving relief to insurance companies

       5. Part 5 Supplementary provisions

   14. Schedule 14

       Tax credits under Schedule 13: consequential amendments

   15. Schedule 15

       R&D tax relief for small and medium-sized enterprises: minor and consequential amendments

   16. Schedule 16

       Community investment tax relief

       1. Part 1 Introduction

       2. Part 2 Accredited community development finance institutions

       3. Part 3 Qualifying investments

       4. Part 4 General conditions

       5. Part 5 Form of relief

       6. Part 6 Withdrawal of relief

       7. Part 7 Restructuring of CDFI

       8. Part 8 Supplementary and general

   17. Schedule 17

       Community investment tax relief: consequential amendments

   18. Schedule 18

       Relief for community amateur sports clubs

       1. Part 1 Clubs entitled to be registered

       2. Part 2 Exemptions for registered clubs

       3. Part 3 Reliefs for donors

       4. Part 4 Chargeable gains: property ceasing to be held for qualifying purposes

       5. Part 5 Registration

       6. Part 6 Interpretation

   19. Schedule 19

       Capital allowances: cars with low carbon dioxide emissions

   20. Schedule 20

       Capital allowances: plant or machinery for gas refuelling station

   21. Schedule 21

       First-year allowances for expenditure wholly for a ring fence trade

       1. Part 1 Plant and machinery

       2. Part 2 Mineral extraction allowances

   22. Schedule 22

       Computation of profits: adjustment on change of basis

       1. Part 1 Introduction

       2. Part 2 General rules

       3. Part 3 Special rules for certain cases

       4. Part 4 Supplementary provisions

       5. Part 5 Commencement

   23. Schedule 23

       Exchange gains and losses from loan relationships etc

       1. Part 1 Amendments of the Finance Act 1996

       2. Part 2 Amendments of other legislation

       3. Part 3 Transitional provisions etc

   24. Schedule 24

       Corporation tax: currency

   25. Schedule 25

       Loan relationships

       1. Part 1 Amendments of the Finance Act 1996

       2. Part 2 Amendments of other enactments

       3. Part 3 Transitional provisions

   26. Schedule 26

       Derivative contracts

       1. Part 1 Introduction

       2. Part 2 Derivative contracts

       3. Part 3 Method of taxation

       4. Part 4 Accounting methods

       5. Part 5 Special provision for bad debt etc

       6. Part 6 Special computational provisions

       7. Part 7 Collective investment schemes

       8. Part 8 Insurance and mutual trading companies

       9. Part 9 Miscellaneous

       10. Part 10 Interpretation

   27. Schedule 27

       Derivative contracts: minor and consequential amendments

   28. Schedule 28

       Derivative contracts: transitional provisions etc

   29. Schedule 29

       Gains and losses of a company from intangible fixed assets

       1. Part 1 Introduction

       2. Part 2 Debits in respect of intangible fixed assets

       3. Part 3 Credits in respect of intangible fixed assets

       4. Part 4 Realisation of intangible fixed assets

       5. Part 5 Calculation of tax written down value

       6. Part 6 How credits and debits are given effect

       7. Part 7 Roll-over relief in case of realisation and reinvestment

       8. Part 8 Groups of companies

       9. Part 9 Application of provisions to groups of companies

       10. Part 10 Excluded assets

       11. Part 11 Transfer of business or trade

       12. Part 12 Transactions between related parties

       13. Part 13 Supplementary provisions

       14. Part 14 Commencement and transitional provisions

       15. Part 15 Interpretation

   30. Schedule 30

       Gains and losses of a company from intangible fixed assets: consequential amendments

   31. Schedule 31

       Gains of insurance company from venture capital investment partnership

   32. Schedule 32

       Lloyd’s underwriters

   33. Schedule 33

       Venture capital trusts

       1. Part 1 Venture capital trusts: winding up

       2. Part 2 Venture capital trusts: mergers

       3. Part 3 Time allowed for VCT to invest money raised by further share issue

       4. Part 4 Supplementary

   34. Schedule 34

       Stamp duty: withdrawal of group relief: supplementary provisions

   35. Schedule 35

       Stamp duty: withdrawal of relief for company acquisitions: supplementary provisions

   36. Schedule 36

       Stamp duty: contracts chargeable as conveyances: supplementary provisions

       1. Part 1 Subsales

       2. Part 2 Subsequent conveyance or transfer

       3. Part 3 General supplementary provisions

   37. Schedule 37

       Stamp duty: abolition of duty on instruments relating to goodwill: supplementary provisions

   38. Schedule 38

       Aggregates levy amendments

   39. Schedule 39

       Recovery of taxes etc due in other member States

   40. Schedule 40

       Repeals

       1. Part 1 Excise duties

       2. Part 2 Value added tax

       3. Part 3 Income tax, corporation tax and capital gains tax

       4. Part 4 Other taxes

       5. Part 5 Miscellaneous