In this Chapter “open-ended investment company” means a company incorporated in the United Kingdom to which section 236 of FISMA 2000 applies.
The rate of corporation tax in relation to an open-ended investment company for any financial year is the rate at which income tax at the basic rate is charged for the tax year beginning on 6 April in that financial year F1... [F2(and sections 18A and 18B (relief for companies with small profits) do not apply)].
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 614 omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 22 of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2014 (c. 26), Sch. 1 para. 15(2)
F2Words in s. 614 inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 34 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), Sch. 1 para. 27
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 614 excluded (9.12.2021) by S.I. 2006/964, reg. 14DA(2)(f) (as inserted by The Authorised Investment Funds (Tax) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1270), regs. 1, 3(2))
(1)In this section “umbrella company” means an open-ended investment company—
(a)whose instrument of incorporation provides arrangements for separate pooling of the contributions of the shareholders and the profits or income out of which payments are made to them, and
(b)whose shareholders are entitled to exchange rights in one pool for rights in another.
(2)References in this section to a part of an umbrella company are to a separate pool.
(3)For the purposes of this Chapter—
(a)each of the parts of an umbrella company is to be regarded as an open-ended investment company, and
(b)the umbrella company as a whole is not to be regarded as an open-ended investment company.
(4)The umbrella company as a whole is not to be regarded as a company for any other purpose of the Tax Acts unless an enactment expressly provides otherwise.