Section 15: Qualifying activities
130.This section is based on various sections of CAA 1990 which deem the activities listed to be trades. It also makes a minor change.
131.Subsection (1)(f) makes concerns listed in section 55 of ICTA a type of qualifying activity. The profits of these concerns are charged to tax under Case I of Schedule D by section 55(1) of ICTA but are not trades. As they are taxed under Schedule D they cannot be Schedule A businesses. That means Part II of CAA 1990 does not cater for them. This Act does so by making them qualifying activities. See Change 1 in Annex 1.
132.Subsection (1)(g) provides for the management of an investment company to be a qualifying activity. It derives from section 28(1) of CAA 1990 which refers to “the management of the business of an investment company”. This is new wording but is not a change. See Note 8 in Annex 2.
133.The final words provide that an activity is only a qualifying activity to the extent that the profits or gains from it are chargeable to tax. They are based on section 83(2A) of CAA 1990. Exceptions to this rule can be found in Chapters 16, 17 and 20 of Part 2.
