Finance Act 2015

81 Non-UK company: involvement of entities or transactions lacking economic substance

(1) This section applies in relation to a company (“the foreign company”) for an accounting period if—

(a) it is non-UK resident in that period,

(b) by reason of the foreign company carrying on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment in the United Kingdom (“UKPE”), Chapter 4 of Part 2 of CTA 2009 (non-UK resident companies: chargeable profits) applies to determine the chargeable profits of the foreign company for that period, and

(c) section 80 would apply to UKPE for that period were it treated for the purposes of section 80 and sections 106 to 110—

(i) as a distinct and separate person from the foreign company (whether or not it would otherwise be so treated),

(ii) as a UK resident company under the same control as the foreign company, and

(iii) as having entered into any transaction or series of transactions entered into by the foreign company to the extent that the transaction or series is relevant to UKPE.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(c)(iii) a transaction or series of transactions is “relevant” to UKPE only if, and to the extent that, it is relevant, for corporation tax purposes, when determining the chargeable profits of the foreign company attributable (in accordance with sections 20 to 32 of CTA 2009) to UKPE.

(3) Where section 1313(2) of CTA 2009 (UK sector of the continental shelf: profits of foreign company deemed to be profits of trade carried on by the company in the UK through a permanent establishment in the UK) applies to treat profits arising to a company as profits of a trade carried on by the company in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment in the United Kingdom, this Part applies as if the company actually carried on that trade in the United Kingdom through that permanent establishment.

(4) In this section “control” is to be construed in accordance with section 1124 of CTA 2010.