Explanatory Notes

Corporation Tax Act 2010

2010 CHAPTER 4

3 March 2010

Introduction

Part 12: Real Estate Investment Trusts

Chapter 2: Requirements for being a UK REIT
Section 527: Being a UK REIT in relation to an accounting period

1633.This section makes it clear that once a notice under section 523 or 524 has been given, the principal company of a group, or the company, must meet the conditions set out in the remainder of this Chapter in relation to all accounting periods. It is based on sections 106 to 108 and 134 of, and Schedule 17 to, FA 2006.

1634.Subsection (2)(e) provides that the principal company must prepare and submit financial statements to “an officer of Revenue and Customs” rather than to “the Commissionersfor Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs”. See Change 5 in Annex 1.