Sections 372A to 372D of ITA: Community investment tax relief: alternative finance arrangements
798.These new sections modify Part 7 of ITA (community investment tax relief: income tax relief) to enable the range of permitted investments in, and by, community development finance institutions to include various Sharia’a-compliant financial products that in substance, but not in form, are equivalent to interest-bearing loans. Such products are to be treated as loans for the purposes of that Part. They correspond to sections 256 to 259 of CTA 2010 which have effect for the purposes of Part 7 of that Act (community investment tax relief: corporation tax relief).