Finance (No. 2) Act 2023

215 Undistributed income amount

(1) The undistributed income amount for an investment entity for an accounting period is the entity’s adjusted profits for the income period less the amounts referred to in subsection (2).

(2) The amounts are—

(a) the covered taxes payable by the entity (determined in accordance with Chapter 5) in the income period;

(b) distributions and deemed distributions paid by the entity and received by shareholders other than other investment entities in the review period;

(c) if, on determining the adjusted profits for the accounting periods in the review period, the entity has made a loss for one or more of those periods the made a loss, the sum of those losses;

(d) the investment loss carry-forward amount for the review period.

(3) But an amount referred to in subsection (2) is not to be deducted from the undistributed income amount for an accounting period if it has already been deducted from the undistributed income amount for a previous accounting period.

(4) In this section—

(a) the “income period” is the third accounting period before the accounting period for which the undistributed income amount falls to be determined;

(b) the “review period” is the period beginning with the first day of the income period and ending with the last day of the accounting period for which the undistributed income amount falls to be determined;

(c) a “deemed distribution” is an amount arising from the transfer of an ownership interest held by the owner to a person that is not a member of the group;

(d) the amount of a deemed distribution is to be calculated as the undistributed income amount for the accounting period in which the transfer occurs (disregarding the deemed distribution) multiplied by the transfer factor;

(e) the transfer factor is the value of the ownership interest transferred divided by the sum of that value and the value of the remaining ownership interest held by the owner;

(f) the “investment loss carry-forward amount” for a review period is the amount of any losses not deducted from the undistributed income amount for any accounting period preceding the review period.