PART 2Corporation tax

Banking companies

57Banking companies: restrictions on loss relief etc

1

Chapter 3 of Part 7A of CTA 2010 (restrictions on banking companies obtaining certain deductions) is amended as follows.

2

In section 269CA (restriction on deductions for trading losses), in subsection (2), for “50%” substitute “ 25% ”.

3

In section 269CB (restriction on deductions for non-trading deficits from loan relationships), in subsection (2), for “50%” substitute “ 25% ”.

4

In section 269CC (restriction on deductions for management expenses etc), in step 1 in subsection (7), for “50%” substitute “ 25% ”.

5

The amendments made by this section have effect for the purposes of determining the taxable total profits of companies for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 April 2016.

6

For the purposes of subsection (5), where a company has an accounting period beginning before 1 April 2016 and ending on or after that date (“the straddling period”)—

a

so much of the straddling period as falls before 1 April 2016, and so much of that period as falls on or after that date, are treated as separate accounting periods, and

b

profits or losses of the company for the straddling period are apportioned to the two separate accounting periods—

i

in accordance with section 1172 of CTA 2010 (time basis), or

ii

if that method would produce a result that is unjust or unreasonable, on a just and reasonable basis.