CIRD48040 - Intangible assets: avoidance: more general CT rules

Rules potentially relevant

Certain rules that apply generally for CT may counter transactions aimed at exploiting the rules in Schedule 29 or using those rules for other avoidance purposes.

The provisions are:

• the transfer pricing rules in ICTA88/SCH28AA (see CIRD47060),
• the controlled foreign companies rules in ICTA88/S747 onwards (see CIRD47010),
• the ‘loss-buying’ rules on the change of ownership of a company (ICTA88/S768 onwards and ICTA88/SCH28AA), (see CIRD48050),
• the value shifting rules in TCGA92/S30 onwards (see CG46800).

FA04/S51

The change in the meaning of GAAP that allows a choice of using IAS or UK GAAP rather than just UK GAAP (see CIRD30020) means that companies within a group may be using different standards in preparing their accounts if there are good reasons for them to do so. FA04/S51 prevents companies within the same group from gaining a tax advantage through the use of IAS by one company and UK GAAP by the other company in relation to the same transaction or series of transactions.

Tax advantage takes the same meaning as it does in ICTA88/S709; group takes the meaning it does for TCGA92/S170 (3) - (6).

In respect of a sequence of transactions Section 51 still takes effect even where:

• there is no transaction in which both companies participate, or
• there are transactions in which either company does not participate,
• there are transactions in which neither company participates.