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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Finance Act 1981 (c. 35)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Finance Act 1981

1981 CHAPTER 35

Contents

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  1. Part I

    Customs and Excise

    1. 1. Spirits, beer, wine, made-wine and cider

    2. 2.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. 3.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. 4. Increase on duty on hydrocarbon oil etc

    5. 5. Energy for refineries etc

    6. 6. Repayment of hydrocarbon oil duty

    7. 7. Vehicles excise duty: Great Britain

    8. 8.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    9. 9. Betting and gaming duties

    10. 10. Import and export procedures

    11. 11. Miscellaneous customs and excise amendments

  2. Part II

    1. 12—15... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  3. Part III

    1. 16—18... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  4. Part IV

    Income Tax, Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax

    1. Chapter I

      General

      1. 19—37... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 38.

      3. 39—51... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. Chapter II

      Relief for Investments in New Corporate Trades

      1. 52—67... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. Chapter III

      Benefits in Kind

      1. 68—72... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. Chapter IV

      Capital Allowances

      1. 73—77... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    5. Chapter V

      Capital Gains

      1. 78.

      2. 79.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 80.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4. 80A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      5. 81.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      6. 82.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      7. 82A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      8. 83.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      9. 84.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      10. 85.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      11. 86.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      12. 87.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      13. 88.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      14. 89.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      15. 90.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      16. 91.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  5. Part V

    Capital Transfer Tax

    1. 92—95... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 96.

    3. 97—106... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  6. Part VI

    Stamp Duty

    1. 107. Sale of houses at discount by local authorities etc

    2. 108. Shared ownership transactions

    3. 109.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. 110.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  7. Part VII

    Petroleum Revenue Tax

    1. 111. Restriction of expenditure supplement

    2. 112. Restriction of expenditure supplement: transfers of interest

    3. 113. Restriction of expenditure supplement: loss following net profit period

    4. 114. Restriction of limit on amount of tax payable

    5. 115. Contracts with deferred payment

    6. 116. Spreading of capital expenditure

    7. 117. Spreading of capital expenditure: transitional provisions

    8. 118. Licence payments other than royalties

    9. 119. Transportation costs for off-shore oil

    10. 120.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    11. 121. Gas banking schemes

  8. Part VIII

    Supplementary Petroleum Duty

    1. 122. Charge of supplementary petroleum duty

    2. 123. Increase of gross profit by reference to royalties in kind

    3. 124. Reduction of gross profit by reference to exempt allowance

    4. 125. Repayment of duty in case of field showing loss on cessation

    5. 126. Deduction of duty in computing assessable profit or allowable loss for petroleum revenue tax

    6. 127. Deduction of duty in computing income for corporation tax

    7. 128. Supplementary Provisions

  9. Part IX

    1. 129—133... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  10. Part X

    Miscellaneous and Supplementary

    1. 134. Special tax on banking deposits

    2. 135. Chevening Estate

    3. 136. Exchange control

    4. 137. Irish land Acts

    5. 138.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    6. 139. Short title, interpretation, construction and repeals

  11. SCHEDULES 1, 2

  12. SCHEDULES 3, 4

  13. SCHEDULE 5

  14. SCHEDULE 6

    Import Procedures: Amendments of Customs and Excise Management Act 1979

  15. SCHEDULE 7

    Export Procedures

  16. SCHEDULE 8

    Miscellaneous Customs and Excise Amendments

  17. Schedules 9—12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  18. Schedules 13, 14

  19. Schedule 15

  20. Schedule 16

    Supplementary Petroleum Duty

  21. Schedule 17

    Special Tax on Banking Deposits

  22. Schedule 18

  23. Schedule 19

    Repeals

An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with Finance.

[27th July 1981]X1

Annotations:

Commencement Information

I1Act partly in force at Royal Assent, partly retrospective; all provisions so far as unrepealed wholly in force at 1.2.1991. Some provisions came into force at specific times of day.

Editorial Information

X1General amendments to Tax Acts, Income Tax Acts, and/or Corporation Tax Acts made by legislation after 1.2.1991 are noted against Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1) but not against each Act

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