Summary
5.The main purpose of the Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 is to rewrite primary legislation relating to a number of provisions with an international dimension so that they are clearer and easier to use but without changing their general effect.
6.It contains provisions about double taxation relief, transfer pricing, advance pricing agreements, tax arbitrage, tax treatment of financing costs and income, and offshore funds. It also relocates and rewrites other provisions where it seems helpful to users to do so.
7.The Act reproduces the law on which it is based. It does not generally change the meaning of the law. The minor changes which it does make are within the remit of the Tax Law Rewrite project and the Parliamentary process for the Act. In the main, such minor changes are intended to clarify existing provisions, make them consistent or bring the law into line with well established practice.