Part 3Companies with small profits

Marginal relief

21Company with ring fence profits and other profits

1

This section applies if—

a

a company is UK resident in an accounting period,

b

it is not a close investment-holding company in the period,

c

its augmented profits of the accounting period—

i

exceed the lower limit, but

ii

do not exceed the upper limit, and

d

its augmented profits of that period consist of both ring fence profits and other profits.

2

The corporation tax charged on the company's taxable total profits of the accounting period is reduced by the total of—

a

the sum equal to the ring fence fraction of the ring fence amount, and

b

the sum equal to the standard fraction of the remaining amount.

3

In this Part “ring fence profits” has the same meaning as in Part 8 (see section 276).