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Part 2: Charge to corporation tax: basic provisions
Chapter 4: Non-UK resident companies: chargeable profits
Section 20: Profits attributable to permanent establishment: introduction
Section 22: Transactions treated as being on arm’s length terms
Section 23: Provision of goods or services for permanent establishment
Section 27: Loans: attribution of financial assets and profits arising
Section 28: Borrowing: permanent establishment acting as agent or intermediary
Section 31: Restriction on deductions: payments in respect of intangible assets
Section 32: Restriction on deductions: interest or other financing costs
Chapter 5: Trade profits: rules allowing deductions
Section 63: Tenants occupying land for purposes of trade treated as incurring expenses
Section 64: Limit on deductions if tenant entitled to mineral extraction allowance
Section 65: Tenants dealing with land as property employed for purposes of trade
Section 66: Restrictions on section 63 expenses: lease premium receipts
Section 67: Restrictions on section 63 expenses: lease of part of premises
Section 70: Employees seconded to charities and educational establishments
Section 72: Payroll deduction schemes: contributions to agents’ expenses
Section 76: Redundancy payments and approved contractual payments
Section 77: Payments in respect of employment wholly in employer’s trade
Section 78: Payments in respect of employment in more than one capacity
Section 80: Application of section 79 in cases involving partnerships
Section 82: Contributions to local enterprise organisations or urban regeneration companies
Section 85: Supplementary provisions with respect to approvals
Section 88: Payments to research associations, universities etc
Chapter 8: Trade profits: herd basis rules
Section 110: Meaning of “animal”, “herd”, “production herd” etc
Section 115: Amount of receipt if old animal slaughtered under disease control order
Section 118: Acquisition of new herd begun within 5 years of sale
Section 119: Section 118: sale for reasons outside farmer’s control
Section 120: Replacement of part sold begun within 5 years of sale
Section 121: Section 120: sale for reasons outside farmer’s control
Section 127: Further assessment etc if herd basis rules apply
Chapter 10: Trade profits: changes in trading stock
Chapter 11: Trade profits: valuation of stock on cessation of trade
Chapter 4: Profits of property businesses: lease premiums etc
Section 218: Amount treated as lease premium where work required
Section 221: Sums payable for variation or waiver of terms of lease
Section 222: Assignments for profit of lease granted at undervalue
Section 226: Provisions supplementary to sections 224 and 225
Section 227: Circumstances in which additional calculation rule applies
Section 230: Meaning of “unused amount” and “unreduced amount”
Section 232: Tenants under taxed leases treated as incurring expenses
Section 233: Restrictions on section 232 expenses: the additional calculation rule
Section 234: Restrictions on section 232 expenses: lease of part of premises
Section 237: Statement of accuracy for purposes of section 222
Section 238: Claim for repayment of tax payable by virtue of section 224
Section 239: Claim for repayment of tax payable by virtue of section 225
Section 243: Rules for determining effective duration of lease
Chapter 5: Profits of property businesses: other rules about receipts and deductions
Section 249: Acquisition of business: receipts from transferor’s UK property business
Section 251: Deduction for expenditure on energy-saving items
Section 257: Transfer involving person within the charge to income tax
Section 259: Nature of item apportioned on sale of estate or interest in land
Section 262: Giving effect to positive and negative adjustments
Chapter 6: Commercial letting of furnished holiday accommodation
Chapter 7: Rent receivable in connection with a UK section 39(4) concern
Section 270: Charge to tax on rent receivable in connection with a UK section 39(4) concern
Section 271: Meaning of “rent receivable in connection with a UK section 39(4) concern”
Section 272: Deduction for management expenses of owner of mineral rights
Section 274: Meaning of “mineral lease or agreement” and “mineral royalties”
Section 275: Extended meaning of “mineral royalties” etc in Northern Ireland
Section 276: Power to determine what counts as “mineral royalties”
Section 293: Construction of references to profits or losses from loan relationships
Section 295: General rule: profits arising from loan relationships chargeable as income
Section 296: Profits and deficits to be calculated using credits and debits given by this Part
Section 297: Trading credits and debits to be brought into account under Part 3
Section 300: Method of bringing non-trading deficits into account
Chapter 3: The credits and debits to be brought into account: general
Section 307: General principles about the bringing into account of credits and debits
Section 308: Amounts recognised in determining a company’s profit or loss
Section 310: Power to make regulations about recognised amounts
Section 311: Amounts not fully recognised for accounting purposes: introduction
Section 312: Determination of credits and debits where amounts not fully recognised
Section 313: Basis of accounting: “amortised cost basis”, “fair value accounting” and “fair value”
Section 314: Power to make regulations about changes from amortised cost basis
Section 316: Change of accounting policy involving change of value
Section 318: Change of accounting policy following cessation of loan relationship
Section 319: General power to make regulations about changes in accounting policy
Section 320: Credits and debits treated as relating to capital expenditure
Section 322: Release of debts: cases where credits not required to be brought into account
Section 323: Meaning of expressions relating to insolvency etc
Section 324: Restriction on debits resulting from revaluation
Section 325: Restriction on credits resulting from reversal of disallowed debits
Section 331: Company ceasing to be party to loan relationship
Chapter 4: Continuity of treatment on transfers within groups or on reorganisations
Section 337: Transfers of loans on insurance business transfers
Section 338: Meaning of company replacing another as party to loan relationship
Section 339: Issues of new securities on certain cross-border reorganisations
Section 342: Issues of new securities on reorganisations: disposal at notional carrying value
Section 345: Transferee leaving group otherwise than because of exempt distribution
Section 346: Transferee leaving group because of exempt distribution
Section 347: Disapplication of Chapter where transferor party to avoidance
Chapter 5: Connected companies relationships: introduction and general
Chapter 6: Connected companies relationships: impairment losses and releases of debts
Section 354: Exclusion of debits for impaired or released connected companies debts
Section 356: Exception to section 354: swapping debt for equity
Section 358: Exclusion of credits on release of connected companies debts: general
Section 360: Exclusion of credits on reversal of impairments of connected companies debts
Section 361: Acquisition of creditor rights by connected company at undervalue
Section 362: Parties becoming connected where creditor’s rights subject to impairment adjustment
Chapter 7: Group relief claims involving impaired or released consortium debts
Section 365: Reduction of impairment loss debits where group relief claimed
Section 366: Effect where credit for release brought into account on amortised cost basis
Section 367: Reduction of credits exceeding impairment losses
Section 368: Reduction of claims where there are earlier net consortium debits
Section 369: Carry forward of claims where there are no net consortium debits
Chapter 8: Connected parties relationships: late interest
Section 373: Late interest treated as not accruing until paid in some cases
Section 374: Connection between debtor and person standing in position of creditor
Section 377: Party to loan relationship having major interest in other party
Section 378: Loans by trustees of occupational pension schemes
Section 379: Persons indirectly standing in the position of creditor
Chapter 10: Insurance companies
Section 387: Treatment of deficit on basic life assurance and general annuity business: introduction
Section 388: Basic rule: deficit set off against income and gains of deficit period
Section 391: Carry forward of surplus deficit to next accounting period
Section 392: Exclusion of loan relationships of members of Lloyd’s
Chapter 12: Special rules for particular kinds of securities
Section 399: Index-linked gilt-edged securities: basic rules
Section 400: Index-linked gilt-edged securities: adjustments for changes in index
Section 404: Restriction on deductions etc relating to FOTRA securities
Section 405: Certain non-UK residents with interest on 3½% War Loan 1952 Or After
Section 412: Persons indirectly standing in the position of creditor
Section 416: Election for application of sections 415 and 585
Section 417: Further provisions about elections under section 416
Section 418: Loan relationships treated differently by connected debtor and creditor
Section 443: Restriction of relief for interest where tax relief schemes involved
Section 445: Disapplication of section 444 where Schedule 28AA to ICTA applies
Section 446: Bringing into account adjustments made under Schedule 28AA to ICTA
Section 451: Exception to section 449 where loan exceeds arm’s length amount
Section 452: Exchange gains and losses where loan not on arm’s length terms
Section 453: Connected parties deriving benefit from creditor relationships
Section 454: Application of fair value accounting: reset bonds etc
Section 455: Disposals for consideration not fully recognised by accounting practice
Chapter 16: Non-trading deficits
Section 457: Basic rule for deficits: carry forward to accounting periods after deficit period
Section 458: Claim to carry forward deficit to later accounting periods
Section 459: Claim to set off deficit against profits of deficit period or earlier periods
Section 460: Time limits and procedure for claims under section 459(1)
Section 461: Claim to set off deficit against other profits for the deficit period
Section 462: Claim to carry back deficit to earlier accounting periods
Part 6: Relationships treated as loan relationships etc
Chapter 2: Relevant non-lending relationships
Section 478: Relevant non-lending relationships: introduction
Section 479: Relevant non-lending relationships not involving discounts
Section 480: Relevant non-lending relationships involving discounts
Section 481: Application of Part 5 to relevant non-lending relationships
Section 482: Miscellaneous rules about amounts to be brought into account because of this Chapter
Section 483: Exchange gains and losses: amounts treated as money debts
Section 484: Provision not at arm’s length: meaning of “interest” and “money debt”
Section 485: Exclusion of debts where profits or losses within Part 7 or 8
Section 486: Exclusion of exchange gains and losses in respect of tax debts etc
Chapter 6: Alternative finance arrangements
Section 508: Provision not at arm’s length: exclusion of arrangements from sections 503 to 507
Section 510: Application of Part 5 to particular alternative finance arrangements
Section 514: Exclusion of alternative finance return from consideration for sale of assets
Section 515: Diminishing shared ownership arrangements not partnerships
Section 516: Treatment of principal under profit sharing agency arrangements
Section 517: Treatment of bond-holder under investment bond arrangements
Section 518: Investment bond arrangements: treatment as securities
Section 520: Provision not at arm’s length: non-deductibility of relevant return
Section 521: Power to extend this Chapter to other arrangements
Chapter 7: Shares with guaranteed returns etc
Section 523: Application of Part 5 to certain shares as rights under creditor relationship
Section 524: Shares subject to outstanding third party obligations
Section 530: The redemption return condition: excepted shares
Section 531: The redemption return condition: unallowable purposes
Section 533: Power to change conditions for non-qualifying shares
Section 534: Amounts to be brought into account where section 523 applies
Section 535: Shares ceasing to be shares to which section 523 applies
Section 545: Ignoring effect on lender etc of sale of securities
Section 546: Charge on lender for finance return in respect of the advance
Section 547: Repo under arrangement designed to produce quasi-interest: tax avoidance
Section 550: Ignoring effect on borrower of sale of securities
Section 551: Relief for borrower for finance charges in respect of the advance
Section 555: Cases where section 554 applies: non-standard repos
Chapter 11: Investment life insurance contracts
Section 561: Meaning of “investment life insurance contract”
Section 563: Increased non-trading credits for BLAGAB and EEA taxed contracts
Section 565: Relevant amount where the relevant company uses fair value accounting
Section 567: Gains on deemed surrenders to be brought into account on related transactions
Section 568: Restriction on credits on old contracts: fair value accounting cases
Section 569: Restriction on debits on old contracts: non-fair value accounting cases
Chapter 2: Contracts to which this Part applies
Section 578: Relevant contracts of a company and being party to such contracts
Sections 584 to 586: Cases where companies treated as parties to relevant contracts
Section 587: Contract relating to holding in OEIC, unit trust or offshore fund
Section 588: Associated transaction treated as derivative contract
Section 589: Contracts excluded because of underlying subject matter: general
Section 590: Disregard of subordinate or small value underlying subject matter
Section 592: Embedded derivatives treated as meeting condition in section 591 etc
Section 593: Contracts where part of underlying subject matter is excluded property
Chapter 3: Credits and debits to be brought into account: general
Section 595: General principles about the bringing into account of credits and debits
Section 597: Amounts recognised in determining a company’s profit or loss
Section 599: Meaning of “amounts recognised for accounting purposes”
Section 600: Contract which is or forms part of financial asset or liability
Section 601: Contract relating to holding in OEIC, unit trust or offshore fund
Section 602: Contract becoming one relating to holding in OEIC, unit trust or offshore fund
Section 603: Associated transaction treated as derivative contract
Section 604: Credits and debits treated as relating to capital expenditure
Section 608: Company ceasing to be party to derivative contract
Section 611: Release under statutory insolvency arrangement of liability under derivative contract
Chapter 4: Further provision about credits and debits to be brought into account
Section 614: Change of accounting policy involving change of value
Section 615: Change of accounting policy after ceasing to be party to derivative contract
Section 618: Elections under section 617: groups of companies
Section 620: Determination of credits and debits by company partners
Section 623: Index-linked gilt-edged securities with embedded contracts for differences
Chapter 5: Continuity of treatment on transfers within groups
Section 625: Group member replacing another as party to derivative contract
Section 627: Meaning of company replacing another as party to derivative contract
Section 631: Transferee leaving group otherwise than because of exempt distribution
Section 632: Transferee leaving group because of exempt distribution
Chapter 7: Chargeable gains arising in relation to derivative contracts
Section 640: Credits and debits not to be brought into account under Part 5
Section 641: Derivative contracts to be taxed on a chargeable gains basis
Section 643: Contracts relating to land or certain tangible movable property
Section 644: Income to be left out of account in determining whether section 643 applies
Section 645: Creditor relationships: embedded derivatives which are options
Section 651: Credits and debits not to be brought into account under Part 3 or Part 5
Section 653: Shares issued or transferred as a result of exercise of deemed option
Section 654: Payment instead of disposal on exercise of deemed option
Section 655: Ceasing to be party to debtor relationship when deemed option not exercised
Section 657: Meaning of “exactly tracking contract” in section 656
Section 658: Chargeable gain or allowable loss treated as accruing
Section 659: Meaning of “relevant credits” and “relevant debits”
Chapter 8: Further provision about chargeable gains and derivative contracts
Section 660: Contract relating to holding in OEIC, unit trust or offshore fund
Section 667: Shares acquired on exercise of non-embedded option
Section 668: Shares acquired on running of future to delivery
Section 670: Treatment of net gains and losses on exercise of option
Section 672: Treatment of net gains and losses on disposal of certain embedded derivatives
Part 8: Intangible fixed assets
Chapter 7: Roll-over relief in case of realisation and reinvestment
Section 755: Conditions relating to the old asset and its realisation
Section 756: Conditions relating to expenditure on other assets
Section 759: Determination of appropriate proportion of cost and adjusted cost
Section 760: References to cost of asset where asset affected by change of accounting policy
Section 761: Declaration of provisional entitlement to relief
Section 763: Disregard of deemed realisations and reacquisitions
Chapter 8: Groups of companies: introduction
Section 765: General rule: a company and its 75% subsidiaries form a group
Section 766: Only effective 51% subsidiaries of principal company to be members of group
Section 767: Principal company cannot be 75% subsidiary of another company
Section 768: Company cannot be member of more than one group
Section 772: Equity holders and profits or assets available for distribution
Chapter 9: Application of this Part to groups of companies
Section 777: Relief on realisation and reinvestment: application to group member
Section 778: Relief on reinvestment: acquisition of group company: introduction
Section 780: Deemed realisation and reacquisition at market value
Section 781: Character of credits and debits brought into account as a result of section 780
Section 782: Certain transferees of businesses etc not treated as leaving group
Section 783: Associated companies leaving group at the same time
Section 785: Principal company becoming member of another group
Section 786: Character of credits and debits brought into account as a result of section 785
Section 787: Company ceasing to be member of group because of exempt distribution
Section 789: Merger carried out for genuine commercial reasons
Section 791: Application of roll-over relief in relation to degrouping charge
Section 793: Further requirements about elections under section 792
Section 794: Application of roll-over relief in relation to reallocated charge
Section 795: Recovery of charge from another group company or controlling director
Section 799: Disregard of payments between group members for reliefs
Section 801: Right to dispose of or acquire excluded asset also excluded
Section 804: Assets for which capital allowances previously made
Section 808: Assets representing production expenditure on films
Section 813: Computer software treated as part of cost of related hardware
Section 815: Election to exclude capital expenditure on software
Section 816: Further provision about elections under section 815
Chapter 11: Transfer of business or trade
Section 818: Company reconstruction involving transfer of business
Section 819: European cross-border transfers of business: introduction
Section 820: Transfer of assets on European cross-border transfer of business
Section 822 Transfer of assets on European cross-border merger
Section 824: Transfer of business of building society to company
Section 825: Application of sections 780 and 785 where transfer within section 824 occurs
Section 826: Amalgamation of, or transfer of engagements by, certain societies
Section 831: The genuine commercial transaction requirement and clearance
Chapter 14: Miscellaneous provisions
Section 852: Treatment of grants and other contributions to expenditure
Section 853: Grants to be left out of account for tax purposes
Section 855: Further provision about regulations under section 854
Section 857: Deemed market value acquisition: adjustment where nil accounting value
Section 859: Asset ceasing to be chargeable intangible asset: deemed realisation at market value
Section 860: Asset ceasing to be chargeable intangible asset: postponement of gain
Section 861: Treatment of postponed gain on subsequent realisation
Section 865: Debits for expenditure not generally deductible for tax purposes
Chapter 15: Adjustments on change of accounting policy
Section 873: Effect of application of section 872 in later period and subsequently
Section 874: Original asset not subject to fixed-rate writing down
Section 875: Effect of application of section 874 in later period and subsequently
Section 876: Original asset subject to fixed-rate writing down
Section 877: Election for fixed-rate writing down in relation to resulting asset
Section 878: Exclusion of credits or debits brought into account under other provisions
Section 879: Subsequent events affecting asset subject to adjustment under this Chapter
Chapter 16: Pre-FA 2002 assets etc
Section 882: Application of this Part to assets created or acquired on or after 1 April 2002
Section 883: Assets treated as created or acquired when expenditure incurred
Section 884: Internally-generated goodwill: time of creation
Section 885: Certain other internally-generated assets: time of creation
Section 886: Assets representing production expenditure on films: time of creation
Section 889: Cases where capital allowances general rule applies
Section 892: Certain assets acquired on transfer of business
Section 893: Assets whose value derives from pre-FA 2002 assets
Section 895: Assets acquired in connection with disposals of pre-FA 2002 assets
Section 897: Application to pre-FA 2002 assets consisting of telecommunication rights
Section 898: Relief where assets disposed of on or after 1 April 2002
Section 899: Relief where degrouping charge on asset arises on or after 1 April 2002
Section 900: Meaning of “chargeable asset within TCGA” in sections 898 and 899
Part 9: Intellectual property: know-how and patents
Chapter 3: Sales of Patent Rights
Section 912: Charge to tax on profits from sales of patent rights
Section 914: UK resident companies: proceeds of sale not received in instalments
Section 915: UK resident companies: proceeds of sale received in instalments
Section 916: Non-UK resident companies: proceeds of sale not received in instalments
Section 917: Non-UK resident companies: proceeds of sale received in instalments
Section 919: Deduction of tax from payments to non-UK resident companies
Section 923: Sums paid for Crown use etc treated as paid under licence
Chapter 3: Beneficiaries’ income from estates in administration
Section 946: Applicable rate for grossing up basic amounts of estate income
Section 951: Reduction in share of residuary income of estate
Section 952: Applicable rate for determining assumed income entitlement (UK estates)
Section 955: Assumed income entitlement of holder of absolute interest following limited interest
Section 956: Payments in respect of limited interests followed by absolute interests
Section 958: Basic amount of estate income: successive limited interests
Section 960: Relief in respect of tax relating to absolute interests
Section 961: Relief in respect of tax relating to limited or discretionary interests
Section 962: Income from which basic amounts are treated as paid
Section 965: Assessments, adjustments and claims after the administration period
Section 966: Power to obtain information from personal representatives and beneficiaries
Part 11: Relief for particular employee share acquisition schemes
Chapter 1: Share incentive plans
Section 985: References to a deduction being allowed to a company
Section 987: Deduction for costs of setting up an approved share incentive plan
Section 988: Deductions for running expenses of an approved share incentive plan
Section 991: Another deduction to be allowed if all acquired shares are awarded
Section 994: Deduction for providing free or matching shares
Section 995: Deduction for additional expense in providing partnership shares
Section 997: No deduction for expenses in providing dividend shares
Section 998: Withdrawal of deductions if approval for share incentive plan withdrawn
Chapter 2: SAYE option schemes, Company share option schemes and Employee share options trusts
Part 12: Other relief for employee share acquisitions
Chapter 2: Relief if shares acquired by employee or other person
Chapter 3: Relief if employee or other person obtains option to acquire shares
Section 1017: Condition relating to employee’s income tax position
Section 1018: Calculation of relief if shares are neither restricted nor convertible
Section 1019: Calculation of relief if shares are restricted or convertible
Section 1022: Takeover of company whose shares are subject to option
Section 1023: Supplementary provision for purposes of section 1022
Section 1024: Transfer of qualifying business by group transfers
Chapter 4: Additional relief in cases involving restricted shares
Chapter 5: Additional relief in cases involving convertible securities
Chapter 6 Relationship between relief under this Part and other reliefs
Part 13: Additional relief for expenditure on research and development
Chapter 2: Relief for SMEs: cost of R&D incurred by SME
Section 1044: Additional deduction in calculating profits of trade
Section 1045: Alternative treatment for pre-trading expenditure: deemed trading loss
Section 1046: Relief only available where company is going concern
Section 1048: Treatment of deemed trading loss under section 1045
Section 1057: Tax credit only available where company is going concern
Section 1059: Total amount of company’s PAYE and NIC liabilities
Section 1062: Restriction on losses carried forward where tax credit claimed
Chapter 4: Relief for SMEs: subsidised and capped expenditure on R&D
Chapter 7: Relief for SMEs and large companies: vaccine research etc
Section 1088: Large companies: declaration about effect of relief
Section 1092: SMEs: deemed trading loss for pre-trading expenditure
Section 1094: Relief only available to SME where company is going concern
Section 1096: Treatment of deemed trading loss under section 1092
Section 1099: SMEs: qualifying expenditure “for” an accounting period
Section 1100: Large companies: qualifying expenditure “for” an accounting period
Section 1106: Tax credit only available where company is going concern
Section 1108: Total amount of company’s PAYE and NIC liabilities
Section 1111: Restriction on losses carried forward where tax credit claimed
Section 1112: Artificially inflated claims for relief or tax credit
Section 1126: Software or consumable items: attributable expenditure
Section 1127: “Qualifying expenditure on externally provided workers”
Section 1129: Qualifying expenditure on externally provided workers: connected persons
Section 1131: Qualifying expenditure on externally provided workers: other cases
Section 1134: Qualifying element of sub-contractor payment: connected persons
Section 1136: Qualifying element of sub-contractor payment: other cases
Section 1137: Accounting periods: company not within charge to corporation tax
Section 1140: “Relevant payments to the subjects of a clinical trial”
Part 14: Remediation of contaminated land
Section 1171: Staffing costs attributable to relevant land remediation
Section 1175: “Qualifying expenditure on sub-contracted land remediation”: connected persons
Section 1176: “Qualifying expenditure on sub-contracted land remediation”: other cases
Section 1178: Persons having a “relevant connection” to a company
Chapter 2: Taxation of activities of film production company
Part 16: Companies with investment business
Section 1262: Allocation of firm’s profits or losses between partners
Section 1263: Profit-making period in which some partners have losses
Section 1264: Loss-making period in which some partners have profits
Section 1265: Apportionment of profit share between partner’s accounting periods
Section 1266: Resident partners and double taxation agreements
Section 1267: Various rules for trades and property businesses
Section 1268: Election for spreading under Chapter 14 of Part 3
Section 1270: Special provisions about farming and property income
Section 1271: Sale of patent rights: effect of partnership changes
Section 1272: Sale of patent rights: effect of later cessation of trade
Part 20: General calculation rules
Chapter 2: Other general rules
Section 1306: Losses calculated on same basis as miscellaneous income
Section 1307: Apportionment etc of miscellaneous profits and losses to accounting period
Section 1308: Expenditure brought into account in determining value of intangible asset
Section 1309: Payments treated as made to visiting performers
Part 21: Other general provisions
Existing assets representing creditor relationships: options
Existing assets representing creditor relationships: contracts for differences
Contracts which became derivative contracts on 16 March 2005
Plain vanilla contracts which became derivative contracts before 30 December 2006
Issuers of securities with embedded derivatives: deemed options
Avoidance relying on continuity of treatment provisions: transactions before 16 May 2008
Repeal of provisions concerning exchange gains and losses from derivative contracts
Annex 2Extra-Statutory Concessions, Case Law and List of Redundant Material Not Rewritten
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