Finance Act 2013

PART 3 Information powers

10 After section 552ZA of ICTA insert—

“552ZB Regulations in relation to qualifying policies

(1) The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs may make regulations—

(a) requiring relevant persons—

(i) to provide prescribed information to persons who apply for the issue of qualifying policies or who are, or may be, required to make statements under paragraph B3(2) of Schedule 15;

(ii) to provide to an officer of Revenue and Customs prescribed information about qualifying policies which have been issued by them or in relation to which they are or have been a relevant transferee;

(b) making such provision (not falling within paragraph (a)) as the Commissioners think fit for securing that an officer of Revenue and Customs is able—

(i) to ascertain whether there has been or is likely to be any contravention of the requirements of the regulations or of paragraph B3(2) of Schedule 15;

(ii) to verify any information provided to an officer of Revenue and Customs as required by the regulations.

(2) The provision that may be made by virtue of subsection (1)(b) includes, in particular, provision requiring relevant persons to make available books, documents and other records for inspection by or on behalf of an officer of Revenue and Customs.

(3) The regulations may—

(a) make different provision for different cases or circumstances, and

(b) contain incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision.

(4) In this section—

• “prescribed” means prescribed by the regulations,

• “qualifying policy” includes a policy which would be a qualifying policy apart from—

  (a)

  paragraph A1(2), B1(2), B2(2) or B3(3) of Schedule 15, or

  (b)

  paragraph 17(2)(za) of that Schedule (including as applied by paragraph 18), and

• “relevant person” means a person—

  (a)

  who issues, or has issued, qualifying policies, or

  (b)

  who is, or has been, a relevant transferee in relation to qualifying policies.

(5) For the purposes of this section a person (“X”) is at any time a “relevant transferee” in relation to a qualifying policy if the obligations under the policy of its issuer are at that time the obligations of X as a result of there having been a transfer to X of the whole or any part of a business previously carried on by the issuer.”

11 In section 552B of ICTA (duties of overseas insurers’ tax representatives) in subsection (2)—

(a) after paragraph (b) omit “and”, and

(b) after paragraph (c) insert “and

(d) any duties imposed by regulations under section 552ZB,”.

12 In section 98 of TMA 1970 (special returns etc), in the second column of the Table, after the entry for regulations under section 552ZA(6) of ICTA insert—

• “regulations under section 552ZB;”.