CFM20320 - Securitisation: taxation: periods beginning on or after 1 January 2007: the regulations
The Taxation of Securitisation Companies Regulations 2006 (SI2006/3296)
The details of the permanent tax regime for securitisation companies are set out in these regulations, which apply with effect from accounting periods commencing on or after 1 January 2007. The regulations are arranged in the following way.
| Regulation 1 | Provides for commencement ( CFM20330). |
| Regulation 2 | Gives interpretations of the definitions used in the regulations, including the necessary references to ICTA ( CFM20340 – CFM20350). |
| Regulation 3 | Explains that the regulations apply to a ‘securitisation company’ as defined in regulations 4 to 10, specify cases where the regulations do not apply to securitisation companies (regulations 11 and 12), specify companies that are not treated as securitisation companies (regulation13), provide for a special corporation tax charge on a securitisation company (regulation 14), set out special rules for determining accounting periods of securitisation companies (regulation 15), and specify certain tax rules that do not apply to securitisation companies or (in certain cases) to transactions involving securitisation companies ( CFM20360). |
| Regulation 4 | Defines a securitisation company as one of five named types of company (each defined in the following regulations), which has a ‘retained profit’ ( CFM20370). |
| Regulation 5 | Defines a ‘note-issuing company’ ( CFM20380 – CFM20400). |
| Regulation 6 | Defines an ‘asset-holding company’ ( CFM20410 - CFM20430). |
| Regulation 7 | Defines an ‘intermediate borrowing company’ ( CFM20440). |
| Regulation 8 | Defines a ‘warehouse company’ ( CFM20450 – CFM20455). |
| Regulation 9 | Defines a ‘commercial paper funded company’ ( CFM20460). |
| Regulation 10 | Gives the meaning of ‘retained profit’ ( CFM20470). |
| Regulation 11 | Specifies that the special corporation tax charge and other tax modifications do not apply to a securitisation company that fails to meet the ‘payments condition’ and explains the payments condition ( CFM20480). |
| Regulation 12 | Specifies that the special corporation tax charge and other tax modifications do not apply to a securitisation company that has an unallowable purpose and explains the meaning of unallowable purpose ( CFM20480). |
| Regulation 13 | Gives the interaction with the interim regime in FA05/S83 and specifies that companies in the interim regime must elect into the permanent regime in order to be within its application ( CFM20330). |
| Regulation 14 | Sets out the special corporation tax charge that applies to securitisation companies ( CFM20550 – CFM20570). |
| Regulation 15 | Sets out the special rules for determining accounting periods of companies which begin or cease to be securitisation companies ( CFM20580). |
| Regulations 16 to 20 | Provide for certain tax rules to be disapplied in relation to securitisation companies ( CFM20590 – CFM20630). |
| Regulation 21 | Prevents section 83 FA 2005 from applying to a ‘securitisation company’ as defined in these regulations ( CFM20360). |
