Finance Act 2012

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19(1)Paragraph 54 is amended as follows.U.K.

(2)In sub-paragraph (1)—

(a)for “under section 747 of the Taxes Act 1988” substitute “ at step 5 in section 371BC(1) of the Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (“TIOPA 2010”) ”,

(b)for “controlled foreign company” (in both places) substitute “ CFC ”, and

(c)at the end insert “ ; and, accordingly, the tonnage tax company is not to be a chargeable company for the purposes of Part 9A of TIOPA 2010 in relation to the CFC's accounting period in question. ”

(3)For sub-paragraphs (2) to (5) substitute—

(2)In relation to a CFC which—

(a)is a member of a tonnage tax group, and

(b)is a tonnage tax company by virtue of the group's tonnage tax election, or would be if it were within the charge to corporation tax,

the corporation tax assumptions within the meaning of Part 9A of TIOPA 2010 are to be taken to include the following assumption.

(3)The CFC is to be assumed to be a single company that is a tonnage tax company.

(4)Nothing in section 371SL(1) of TIOPA 2010 affects sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) above.

(5)In this paragraph “CFC” has the same meaning as in Part 9A of TIOPA 2010.