PART 2 U.K.THE TAX TREATMENT OF AUTHORISED INVESTMENT FUNDS

Loan relationships and derivative contracts: exclusion of capital profits, gains or losses U.K.

General rule for loan relationships: exclusion of capital profits, gains or losses U.K.

10.—(1) This regulation applies if any profits, gains or losses arising to an authorised investment fund from a creditor relationship in an accounting period are capital profits, gains or losses.

(2) For the purposes of Chapter 2 of Part 4 of FA 1996 M1 (loan relationships) those profits, gains or losses must not be brought into account as credits or debits.

(3) Regulation 12 explains what is meant by “capital profits, gains or losses” in the case of an authorised investment fund that prepares accounts in accordance with UK generally accepted accounting practice.

[F1 (4) This regulation is subject to regulation 14B (tax treatment of qualified investor schemes.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 10(4) inserted (1.1.2009) by The Authorised Investment Funds (Tax) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3159), regs. 1(1), 5

Marginal Citations

M1 1996 c. 8.

General rule for derivative contracts: exclusion of capital profits, gains or losses U.K.

11.—(1) This regulation applies if any profits, gains or losses arising to an authorised investment fund from a derivative contract in an accounting period are capital profits, gains or losses.

(2) For the purposes of Schedule 26 to FA 2002 M2 (derivative contracts) those profits, gains or losses must not be brought into account as credits or debits.

(3) Regulation 12 explains what is meant by “capital profits, gains or losses” in the case of an authorised investment fund that prepares accounts in accordance with UK generally accepted accounting practice.

[F2 (4) This regulation is subject to regulation 14B (tax treatment of qualified investor schemes).]

Textual Amendments

F2 Reg. 11(4) inserted (1.1.2009) by The Authorised Investment Funds (Tax) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3159), regs. 1(1), 6

Marginal Citations

M2 2002 c. 23.

Accounts prepared in accordance with UK generally accepted accounting practice U.K.

12.—(1) In the case of an authorised investment fund that prepares accounts in accordance with UK generally accepted accounting practice, capital profits, gains or losses arising from a creditor relationship in an accounting period, or capital profits, gains or losses arising from a derivative contract in an accounting period, are such profits, gains or losses as fall to be dealt with under [F3 the heading “net capital gains/losses”] in the statement of total return for the accounting period.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the statement of total return for an accounting period is the statement of total return which, in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice used for the accounting period, must be included in the accounts contained in the annual report of the authorised investment fund which deals with the accounting period.

F4 (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F3 Words in reg. 12(1) substituted (1.1.2009) by The Authorised Investment Funds (Tax) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3159), regs. 1(1), 7

F4 Reg. 12(3) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Authorised Investment Funds (Tax) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/294), regs. 1(1), 5