The Insurance Companies (Calculation of Profits: Policy Holders' Tax) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2008/1906 |
| Year | 2008 |
2008 No. 1906
Corporation Tax
The Insurance Companies (Calculation of Profits: Policy Holders’ Tax) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
Made 17th July 2008
Laid before the House of Commons 18th July 2008
Coming into force 8th August 2008
The Treasury make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 82A of the Finance Act 19891.
Citation, commencement and effect
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Insurance Companies (Calculation of Profits: Policy Holders’ Tax) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and shall come into force on 8th August 2008.
(2) These Regulations shall have effect in relation to periods of account beginning on or after 1st January 2008 and ending on or after these Regulations come into force.
Amendment of the Insurance Companies (Calculation of Profits: Policy Holders’ Tax) Regulations 2003
2.—(1) The Insurance Companies (Calculation of Profits: Policy Holders’ Tax) Regulations 20032are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 4 in sub-paragraph (b) for “or 4” substitute “, 4 or 5”.
Claire Ward
Dave Watts
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
17th July 2008
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
The Insurance Companies (Calculation of Profits: Policy Holders’ Tax) Regulations 2003 (“the principal Regulations”) make provision for the purposes of section 82A of the Finance Act 1989 (c. 26)for a deduction for tax expended on behalf of policy holders or annuitants in computing the profits of an insurance company in respect of its life assurance business under Case 1 of Schedule D of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1). These Regulations amend the principal Regulations.
The basis on which the deduction is permitted under the principal Regulations includes cases where an insurance company is the transferee of life assurance business under a “insurance business transfer scheme” within the meaning of section 105 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (c. 8). The Reinsurance Directive Regulations 2007 ( S.I.2007/3253) amend section 105 to include an additional case. The amendment made by these Regulations is consequential.
Regulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and effect. Authority for the Regulations having effect in relation to periods of account which began on or after 1st...
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