C1C2C3C4Part 4Transfer pricing
Pt. 4 excluded (1.10.2011) by Postal Services Act 2011 (c. 5), s. 93(2)(3), Sch. 2 para. 6(2); S.I. 2011/2329, art. 3
Pt. 4 excluded (1.4.2012) by Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 (c. 4), s. 29, Sch. 4 para. 3(2); S.I. 2011/2576, art. 5
Pt. 4 excluded (with effect in accordance with s. 148 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2012 (c. 14), s. 129(11) (with s. 147, Sch. 17)
CHAPTER 2Key interpretative provisions
Meaning of certain expressions that first appear in section 147
152Arm's length provision where actual provision relates to securities
1
This section applies where—
a
both of the affected persons are companies, and
b
the actual provision is provision in relation to a security issued by one of those companies (“the issuing company”).
2
Section 147(1)(d) is to be read as requiring account to be taken of all factors, including—
a
the question whether the loan would have been made at all in the absence of the special relationship,
b
the amount which the loan would have been in the absence of the special relationship, and
c
the rate of interest and other terms which would have been agreed in the absence of the special relationship.
3
Subsection (2) has effect subject to subsections (4) and (5).
4
If—
a
a company (“L”) makes a loan to another company with which it has a special relationship, and
b
it is not part of L's business to make loans generally,
the fact that it is not part of L's business to make loans generally is to be disregarded in applying subsection (2).
5
Section 147(1)(d) is to be read as requiring that, in the determination of any of the matters mentioned in subsection (6), no account is to be taken of (or of any inference capable of being drawn from) any guarantee provided by a company with which the issuing company has a participatory relationship.
6
The matters are—
a
the appropriate level or extent of the issuing company's overall indebtedness,
b
whether it might be expected that the issuing company and a particular person would have become parties to a transaction involving—
i
the issue of a security by the issuing company, or
ii
the making of a loan, or a loan of a particular amount, to the issuing company, and
c
the rate of interest and other terms that might be expected to be applicable in any particular case to such a transaction.
Pt. 4 excluded by 2010 c. 4, s. 938N (as inserted (19.7.2011) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), Sch. 5 para. 2)