UK Act of Parliament 2010 United Kingdom

Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010

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HMRC

What's here

19 compliance obligations, 1 practical guide

Who this Act binds

Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.

  • Any Person 11
  • Trader 5
  • Director or Officer 2

Plus 1 non-business duty on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.

Relevant guidance

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Traders also bound by 219 other Acts (top 5 shown)
Directors and Officers also bound by 224 other Acts (top 5 shown)

What this Act requires

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Part 1 — Overview

No sections of this Part have been ingested yet.

Part 2 — Double taxation relief

s.036

Amount of limit

  • Calculate and limit Foreign Tax Credit against income tax Any Person
  • Calculate foreign tax credit within the statutory limit Any Person
s.040

Amount of limit

  • Calculate and claim capital gains tax credit within the allowed limit Any Person
  • Calculate the limit for foreign tax credit against Capital Gains Tax Any Person
s.044

Credit against tax on trade income

  • Calculate and claim corporation tax credit on trade income correctly Director or Officer
  • Limit foreign tax credits against your trade income Trader
s.049

Limit on credit in cases involving qualifying loan relationships of CFCs

  • Calculate and limit loan‑relationship tax credit for UK companies with CFC links Trader
  • Limit foreign tax credit claims for certain CFC loan relationships Trader
s.049

Applying section 42(2) to non-trading credits from loan relationships etc

  • Calculate foreign tax credit limits for non‑trading credits Director or Officer
  • Limit foreign tax credit claims on non-trading loan relationship income Trader
Browse 84 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement
s.071

Circumstances in which section 71B applies

s.071

Reduction of foreign tax paid on profits of overseas PE

s.085

Section 83(2) and (4): schemes involving deemed foreign tax

s.097

Commercial allocation of relevant income to different categories of long-term business

s.128

Power by regulations to give effect to international obligations etc

s.128

Giving effect to requirements under section 128A regulations

Part 4 — Transfer pricing

s.174

Claims under section 174 where disadvantaged person within charge to income tax

Amended 6 times
s.192

Provision for cases within Part 6A

Amended 8 times
Browse 21 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement

Part 4A — Assessment of unassessed transfer pricing profits

No sections of this Part have been ingested yet.

Part 5 — Advance pricing agreements

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Part 6A — Hybrid and other mismatches

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s.259

“ Tax ” means certain taxes on income and includes foreign tax etc

s.259

References to equivalent provision to this Part under the law of a territory outside the United Kingdom

s.259

Chargeable companies in respect of CFCs and foreign CFCs

s.259

Meaning of “hybrid entity”, “investor” and “investor jurisdiction”

s.259

Meaning of “permanent establishment”

s.259

Overview of Chapter

s.259

Circumstances in which the Chapter applies

s.259

Hybrid or otherwise impermissible deduction/non-inclusion mismatches and their extent

s.259

Overview of Chapter

s.259

Circumstances in which the Chapter applies

s.259

Interpretation of section 259DC

s.259

Counteraction where the payer is within the charge to corporation tax for the payment period

s.259

Overview of Chapter

s.259

Hybrid payer deduction/non-inclusion mismatches and their extent

s.259

Counteraction where the hybrid payer is within the charge to corporation tax for the payment period

s.259

Overview of Chapter

s.259

Counteraction of the excessive PE deduction

s.259

Overview of Chapter

s.259

Circumstances in which the Chapter applies

s.259

Hybrid payee deduction/non-inclusion mismatches and their extent

s.259

Counteraction where the payer is within the charge to corporation tax for the payment period

s.259

Counteraction where the investor is within the charge to corporation tax

s.259

Counteraction where a hybrid payee is an LLP

s.259

Overview of Chapter

s.259

Multinational payee deduction/non-inclusion mismatches and their extent

s.259

Overview of Chapter

s.259

Circumstances in which the Chapter applies

s.259

Counteraction where the investor is within the charge to corporation tax

s.259

Counteraction where the hybrid entity is within the charge to corporation tax

s.259

Counteraction where mismatch arises because of a dual resident company

s.259

Counteraction where mismatch arises because of a relevant multinational and the UK is the parent jurisdiction

s.259

Counteraction where mismatch arises because of a relevant multinational and is not counteracted in the parent jurisdiction

s.259

Meaning of excessive PE inclusion income

s.259

Overview of Chapter

s.259

Circumstances in which the Chapter applies

s.259

Meaning of “dual territory double deduction”, “excessive PE deduction” and “PE jurisdiction”

s.259

Denial of the relevant deduction in relation to the imported mismatch payment

s.259

Deductions from dual inclusion income

s.259

Limit on reduction under section 259KC

s.259

Adjustments where suppositions cease to be reasonable

s.259

Countering the effect of avoidance arrangements

s.259

Application of Chapter 9

s.259

Application of Chapter 11

s.259

Meaning of “financial instrument”

s.259

Meaning of “relevant investment fund”

s.259

Control groups

s.259

Related persons

s.259

Treatment of a person who is a member of a partnership

s.259

Priority

s.259

Release of debts

s.259

Release of connected companies debts

s.259

Release of connected companies debts during creditor’s insolvency

s.259

Corporate rescue: debt released shortly after connection arises

s.259

Overview of Chapter

s.259

Circumstances in which Chapter applies

s.259

Claims for allocation of DII surplus

s.259

The unused part of the DII surplus

s.259

Groups of companies

s.259

Meaning of “dual inclusion income” and “counteraction amount”

Part 7 — Tax treatment of financing costs and income

s.265

Different accounting treatment used at company and group levels

Amended 3 times
s.280

Statement of allocated disallowances: dual resident investing companies

Amended 1 time
s.284

Section 284: supplementary

Amended 4 times
s.298

Application of Chapter to financing income amounts determined under section 314A

Amended 2 times
s.332

Groups containing securitisation companies

Amended 8 times
s.332

Partnerships: other expenses

Amended 8 times
s.348

Financial statements: business combinations to which the worldwide group is a party

Amended 3 times
s.353

Regulations and orders

Amended 4 times
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s.275

Meaning of “dual resident investing company”

s.317

Companies with permanent establishments profits election

s.331

Mismatches between tax treatment and accounting treatment

s.331

Elections disapplying sections 329(5) and 330(5)

s.336

Mismatches between tax treatment and accounting treatment

Part 9 — Amendments to relocate provisions of tax legislation

Browse 6 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement

Part 9A — Controlled foreign companies

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s.371

Overview of Part

s.371

Introduction to the CFC charge

s.371

The CFC charge gateway

s.371

Chargeable companies

s.371

Companies which are managers of offshore funds etc

s.371

Companies which are participants in offshore funds

s.371

Does Chapter 4 apply?

s.371

Does Chapter 5 apply?

s.371

Section 371CE: meaning of “group treasury company”

s.371

Does Chapter 8 apply?

s.371

Introduction to Chapter

s.371

The steps

s.371

Exclusion: UK activities a minority of total activities

s.371

Exclusion: trading profits (the basic rule)

s.371

Exclusion: trading profits (business premises condition)

s.371

Exclusion: trading profits (management expenditure condition)

s.371

Exclusion: trading profits (IP condition)

s.371

Exclusion: trading profits (export of goods condition)

s.371

The basic rule

s.371

UK activities

s.371

The basic rule

s.371

Loans from foreign permanent establishments of UK resident companies

s.371

Exclusion: insurance business

s.371

The basic rule

s.371

The basic rule

s.371

The basic rule

s.371

The “matched interest profits” exemption

s.371

Determining the profits of a qualifying loan relationship

s.371

Power to amend definitions

s.371

Introduction to Chapter

s.371

How long is an exempt period?

s.371

Anti-avoidance

s.371

Amendment of company tax returns

s.371

What is “the threshold amount”?

s.371

Category B income

s.371

Category C income

s.371

Category D income

s.371

The IP condition

s.371

Introduction to Chapter

s.371

Anti-avoidance

s.371

The basic rule

s.371

Reductions to “the local tax amount”

s.371

What are “designer rate tax provisions”?

s.371

Application of Chapter

s.371

Provision about interpretation

s.371

“Relevant interests” of persons related to UK resident companies

s.371

Application of Chapter

s.371

The basic rules

s.371

Apportionments to be made in proportion to shareholding

s.371

Variable shareholdings

s.371

Legal and economic control

s.371

Legal and economic control: the 40% rule

s.371

Companies in which a UK resident company has more than a 50% investment

s.371

Overview of Chapter

s.371

UK residence etc

s.371

Close company

s.371

Claims and elections

s.371

Restrictions on certain deductions: deductions allowances

s.371

Capital allowances

s.371

Unremittable overseas income

s.371

Tax advantages

s.371

Shares accounted for as liabilities: application of section 521C of CTA 2009

s.371

Double taxation relief: countering effect of avoidance arrangements

s.371

The basic rule

s.371

How to determine the territory in which the CFC is resident

s.371

Introduction to Chapter

s.371

Application of the Taxes Acts to the CFC charge

s.371

Payments in respect of a charge on a banking company: information to be provided

s.371

Just and reasonable apportionments

s.371

Appeals affecting more than one person

s.371

Accounting periods

s.371

Cell companies etc

s.371

Finance profits

s.371

Interests in companies

s.371

Property business profits

s.371

Relevant finance leases

Part 10 — Corporate interest restriction

s.438

Application of section 438: certain creditors treated as qualifying infrastructure companies

Amended 1 time
Browse 62 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement
s.391

Amounts capitalised in carrying value of intangible fixed assets

s.395

Carry forward of interest allowance: new holding company

s.424

Unpaid employees’ remuneration

s.454

Investments held by investment managers

Schedules

Browse 4 other Schedules — structural / supplementary
s.sch007a

Interest restriction returns

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