1.Section 30 amends the restrictions on when companies resident in the European Economic Area (EEA) can surrender losses attributable to their UK permanent establishments as group relief from Corporation Tax in the UK. Currently, companies resident in the EEA are subject to the same rules as non-EEA resident companies. From 1 April 2013, a new restriction will apply for EEA resident companies based on whether their losses are relieved in another country in any period, rather than on whether they could potentially be relieved in another country.
2.Subsection (1) is introductory and confirms that section 107 Corporation Tax Act (CTA) 2010, which restricts the losses and other amounts that may be surrendered as group relief by a non-UK resident company, is amended as follows.
3.Subsection (2) provides that where the surrendering company is established in the European Economic Area (EEA) then (as before) it may surrender losses and other amounts that meet Conditions A and B, but they no longer need to meet Condition C. Instead these losses are subject to a new restriction, set out at subsection (4) of this section.
4.The effect of subsection (3) is that for a non-UK resident company that is not established in the EEA, section 107 CTA remains unchanged.
5.Subsection (4) inserts a new restriction for a company established in the EEA. It may not surrender losses and other amounts that meet conditions A and B if and to the extent that they are deducted from or allowed against non-UK profits of any person.
6.Subsections (6) to (8) provide that this amendment applies to losses arising on or after 1 April 2013. Where an apportionment is needed to work out the losses that arise from this date, companies should use a time apportionment unless that produces an unjust or unreasonable result.
7.This section derives from a recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the case of Philips Electronics UK Ltd (C-18/11).