The Tax Treatment of Financing Costs and Income (Available Amount) Regulations 2010

• Citation: S.I. 2010/2929
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Tax Treatment of Financing Costs and Income (Available Amount) Regulations 2010 and come into force on 1st January 2011.

(2) These Regulations have effect in relation to periods of account of the worldwide group beginning on or after 1st January 2011.

Section 2 Interpretation

For the purposes of these Regulations—

“ CTA 2009 ” means the Corporation Tax Act 2009 ;

“alternative finance arrangements” has the meaning given in section 501(2) of CTA 2009 (introduction to chapter: definitions etc );

“alternative finance return” has the meaning given in sections 511 to 513 of CTA 2009 (purchase and resale arrangements, diminishing shared ownership arrangements and other arrangements);

“loan relationship” has the meaning given in section 302 of CTA 2009 (definitions of loan relationship, creditor relationship and debtor relationship);

“manufactured interest” has the meaning given in section 539(5) of CTA 2009 (introduction to chapter: definitions etc);

“relevant non-lending relationship” has the meaning given in sections 479 (relevant non-lending relationships not involving discounts) and 480 (relevant non-lending relationships involving discounts) of CTA 2009.

Section 3 Specified matters

The following matters are specified for the purposes of section 332(1) of the Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 to the extent that they are not included in the available amount by virtue of any of paragraphs (a) to (f) of that subsection—

(a) interest payable in respect of a relevant non-lending relationship;

(b) alternative finance return under alternative finance arrangements;

(c) manufactured interest;

(d) a finance charge treated in accordance with section 551(4) of CTA 2009 (relief for borrower for finance charges in respect of the advance) as interest payable under a debt;

(e) a finance charge treated in accordance with any of the following provisions of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 as interest payable under a transaction or a loan relationship—

(i) section 761(3) (deemed loan relationship if borrower is a company),

(ii) section 762(3) (deemed loan relationship if borrower is a partnership with a corporate member),

(iii) section 766(3) (deemed loan relationship), or

(iv) section 769(3) (deemed loan relationship).