TTM03920 - Qualifying companies and ships: flagging - condition 2
FA00/Sch22A/Para22A (3)
The second condition to be considered is whether the proportion of the company’s total tonnage that is flagged on the register of a member state is on average less than 60% over a period beginning with the start of that financial year and ending on the day the company begins to operate the new ship.
The percentage of a company’s total tonnage which is community flagged is
where:
- CFT is the aggregate tonnage of such of the relevant ships that are registered on the register of a member state
- TT is the aggregate tonnage of all the relevant ships.
The relevant ships are the ships operated by the company or, where the company is a member of a Tonnage Tax group, the ships operated by all the qualifying companies in that group [FA00/Sch22/Para22B (4)].
A company is regarded as operating any ship owned by, or chartered to, the company. All vessels, whether owned, bareboat chartered or time chartered, should be included as relevant vessels for all purposes of the calculation above.
“On average” means taking the period in the financial year as a whole, not looking at the position solely on the day the new vessel begins to be operated. For example:
On 1 April 2008 the total gross tonnage of ships operated by a company is 400,000 tons. The company’s vessels in Tonnage Tax have gross tonnage of 300,000 tons. (The difference is explained by ships that are not qualifying for Tonnage Tax).
The company has vessels registered in member states with aggregate gross tonnage of 250,000.
On 1 August 2008 the company begins to operate a new vessel of 30,000 gross tons. The new vessel is not registered in a member state.
| Date | Total | EU Flagged | Not EU | % EU |
| 1.4.08 to 31.07.08 | 400,000 | 250,000 | 150,000 | 62.5 |
| 01.08.08 | 430,000 | 250,000 | 180,000 | 58.2 |
The relevant percentage is computed using gross ton days.
The period from 1 April 08 to 31 July 08 is 122 days.
| Total tonnage is: | 400,000 x 122 | = 48,800,000 |
| Total EU is: | 250,000 x 122 | = 30,500,000 |
The period in para 22A(3) ends on 1 August 2008 when the company begins to operate the new ship.
| On 1 August | total tonnage is: | 430,000 |
| Total EU tonnage is: | 250,000 |
To compute the average add the total tonnage on 1 August to the total tonnage for the four months to 31 July, giving:
| Total tonnage: | (48,800,000 +430,000) TT = | 49,230,000, |
| Total EU tonnage: | (30,500,000 +250,000) CFT = | 30,750,000 |
The average total EU registered as a percentage of total tonnage is 62.46%
In this case condition 2 is not satisfied as over 60% of the tonnage is flagged in the EU. As a result vessel does not need to be EU registered to be a qualifying ship.
For guidance on member states’ registers see TTM03945
References
| FA 2000 SCH 22 Para 22(A)(3) | TTM17126 |
