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SCHEDULE 27 continued PART IV continued
19 (1) In any case where—
(a) an application has been made under paragraph 15 above with respect to an account period of an offshore fund and that application has not been finally determined; or
(b) paragraph (a) above does not apply but notice has been given under paragraph 18(1) above in respect of an account period of an offshore fund and the Board have not yet given notice of their decision as to certification under paragraph 18(4) above;
any person who has been assessed to tax and considers that, if the offshore fund were to be certified as a distributing fund in respect of the account period in question, he would be overcharged to tax by the assessment may, by notice given to the inspector within 30 days after the date of the issue of the notice of assessment, apply to the General Commissioners for a determination of the amount of tax the payment of which should be postponed pending the determination of the question whether the fund should be so certified.
(2) A notice of application under sub-paragraph (1) above shall state the amount in which the applicant believes that he is over-charged to tax and his grounds for that belief.
(3) Subsections (3A) onwards of section 55 of the Management Act (recovery of tax not postponed) shall apply with any necessary modifications in relation to an application under sub-paragraph (1) above as if it were an application under subsection (3) of that section and as if the determination of the question as to certification (whether by the Board or on appeal) were the determination of an appeal.
20 No obligation as to secrecy imposed by statute or otherwise shall preclude the Board or an inspector from disclosing to any person appearing to have an interest in the matter—
(a) any determination of the Board or (on appeal) the Special Commissioners whether an offshore fund should or should not be certified as a distributing fund in respect of any account period; or
(b) the content and effect of any notice given by the Board under paragraph 15(4) above.
Section 761(1).
1 In this Part of this Schedule “material disposal” means a disposal to which this Chapter applies, otherwise than by virtue of section 758.
2 (1) Where there is a material disposal, there shall first be determined for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule the amount (if any) which, in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph, is the unindexed gain accruing to the person making the disposal.
(2) Subject to section 757(3) to (6) and paragraph 3 below, the unindexed gain accruing on a material disposal is the amount which would be the gain on that disposal for the purposes of the 1979 Act if it were computed—
(a) without regard to any charge to income tax or corporation tax by virtue of section 761; and
(b) without regard to any indexation allowance on the disposal under Chapter III of Part III of the [1982 c. 39.] Finance Act 1982.
3 (1) If the amount of any chargeable gain or allowable loss which (apart from section 763) would accrue on the material disposal would fall to be determined in a way which, in whole or in part, would take account of the indexation allowance on an earlier disposal to which paragraph 2 of Schedule 13 to the Finance Act 1982 (disposals on a no gain/no loss basis) applies, the unindexed gain on the material disposal shall be computed as if—
(a) no indexation allowance had been available on any such earlier disposal; and
(b) subject to that, neither a gain nor a loss had accrued to the person making such an earlier disposal.
(2) If the material disposal forms part of a transfer to which section 123 of the 1979 Act (roll-over relief on transfer of business) applies, the unindexed gain accruing on the disposal shall be computed without regard to any deduction which falls to be made under that section in computing a chargeable gain.
(3) If the material disposal is made otherwise than under a bargain at arm’s length and a claim for relief is made in respect of that disposal under section 79 of the [1980 c. 48.] Finance Act 1980 (relief for gifts), that section shall not affect the computation of the unindexed gain accruing on the disposal.
(4) Where, in the case of an insurance company carrying on life assurance business, a profit arising from general annuity business and attributable to a material disposal falls (or would but for the reference to offshore income gains in section 437(2) fall) to be taken into account in the computation under section 436, the unindexed gain, if any, accruing to the company on the disposal shall be computed as if section 31(1) of the 1979 Act (exclusion of certain sums in computing chargeable gain) did not apply.
(5) Notwithstanding section 29 of the 1979 Act (losses determined in like manner as gains) if, apart from this sub-paragraph, the effect of any computation under the preceding provisions of this Part of this Schedule would be to produce a loss, the unindexed gain on the material disposal shall be treated as nil; and accordingly for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule no loss shall be treated as accruing on a material disposal.
(6) Section 431 has effect in relation to sub-paragraph (4) above as if it were included in Chapter I of Part XII.
4 (1) This paragraph applies where—
(a) the interest in the offshore fund which is disposed of by the person making a material disposal was acquired by him before 1st January 1984; or
(b) he is treated by virtue of any provision of sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) below as having acquired the interest before that date.
(2) Where this paragraph applies, there shall be determined for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule the amount which would have been the gain on the material disposal—
(a) on the assumption that, on 1st January 1984, the interest was disposed of and immediately reacquired for a consideration equal to its market value at that time; and
(b) subject to that, on the basis that the gain is computed in like manner as, under paragraphs 2 and 3 above, the unindexed gain on the material disposal is determined;
and that amount is in paragraph 5 below referred to as the “post-1983 gain” on the material disposal.
(3) Where the person making the material disposal acquired the interest disposed of—
(a) on or after 1st January 1984, and
(b) in such circumstances that, by virtue of any enactment other than section 86(5) of or Schedule 13 to the [1982 c. 39.] Finance Act 1982 (indexation provisions), he and the person from whom he acquired it (“the previous owner”) fell to be treated for the purposes of the 1979 Act as if his acquisition were for a consideration of such an amount as would secure that, on the disposal under which he acquired it, neither a gain nor a loss accrued to the previous owner,
the previous owner’s acquisition of the interest shall be treated as his acquisition of it.
(4) If the previous owner acquired the interest disposed of on or after 1st January 1984 and in circumstances similar to those referred to in sub-paragraph (3) above, his predecessor’s acquisition of the interest shall be treated for the purposes of this paragraph as the previous owner’s acquisition, and so on back through previous acquisitions in similar circumstances until the first such acquisition before 1st January 1984 or, as the case may be, until an acquisition on a material disposal on or after that date.
5 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, a material disposal gives rise to an offshore income gain of an amount equal to the unindexed gain on that disposal.
(2) In any case where—
(a) paragraph 4 above applies, and
(b) the post-1983 gain on the material disposal is less than the unindexed gain on the disposal,
the offshore income gain to which the disposal gives rise is an amount equal to the post-1983 gain.
6 (1) Subject to paragraph 7 below, a disposal to which this Chapter applies by virtue of section 758(3) gives rise to an offshore income gain of an amount equal to the equalisation element relevant to the asset disposed of.
(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (4) to (6) below, the equalisation element relevant to the asset disposed of by a disposal falling within sub-paragraph (1) above is the amount which would be credited to the equalisation account of the offshore fund concerned in respect of accrued income if, on the date of the disposal, the asset which is disposed of were acquired by another person by way of initial purchase.
(3) In the following provisions of this Part of this Schedule, a disposal falling within sub-paragraph (1) above is referred to as a “disposal involving an equalisation element”.
(4) Where the asset disposed of by a disposal involving an equalisation element was acquired by the person making the disposal after the beginning of the period by reference to which the accrued income referred to in sub-paragraph (2) above is calculated, the amount which, apart from this sub-paragraph, would be the equalisation element relevant to that asset shall be reduced by the following amount, that is to say—
(a) if that acquisition took place on or after 1st January 1984, the amount which, on that acquisition, was credited to the equalisation account of the offshore fund concerned in respect of accrued income or, as the case may be, would have been so credited if that acquisition had been an acquisition by way of initial purchase; and
(b) in any other case, the amount which would have been credited to that account in respect of accrued income if that acquisition had been an acquisition by way of initial purchase taking place on 1st January 1984.
(5) In any case where—
(a) the asset disposed of by a disposal involving an equalisation element was acquired by the person making the disposal at or before the beginning of the period by reference to which the accrued income referred to in sub-paragraph (2) above is calculated, and
(b) that period began before 1st January 1984 and ends after that date,
the amount which, apart from this sub-paragraph, would be the equalisation element relevant to that asset shall be reduced by the amount which would have been credited to the equalisation account of the offshore fund concerned in respect of accrued income if the acquisition referred to in paragraph (a) above had been an acquisition by way of initial purchase taking place on 1st January 1984.
(6) Where there is a disposal involving an equalisation element, then, to the extent that any amount which was or would be credited to the equalisation account of the offshore fund in respect of accrued income, as mentioned in any of sub-paragraphs (2) to (5) above, represents profits from dealing in commodities, within the meaning of paragraph 4 of Schedule 27, one half of that accrued income shall be left out of account in determining under those sub-paragraphs the equalisation element relevant to the asset disposed of by that disposal.
7 (1) For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, there shall be determined, in accordance with paragraph 8 below, the Part I gain (if any) on any disposal involving an equalisation element.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in paragraph 6 above—
(a) if there is no Part I gain on a disposal involving an equalisation element, that disposal shall not give rise to an offshore income gain; and
(b) if, apart from this paragraph, the offshore income gain on a disposal involving an equalisation element would exceed the Part I gain on that disposal, the offshore income gain to which that disposal gives rise shall be reduced to an amount equal to that Part I gain.
8 (1) On a disposal involving an equalisation element, the Part I gain is the amount (if any) which, by virtue of Part I of this Schedule (as modified by sub-paragraphs (2) to (5) below), would be the offshore income gain on that disposal if it were a material disposal within the meaning of that Part.
(2) For the purposes only of the application of Part I of this Schedule to determine the Part I gain (if any) on a disposal involving an equalisation element, subsections (5) and (6) of section 758 shall have effect as if, in subsection (5), the words “by virtue of subsection (3) above” were omitted.
(3) If a disposal involving an equalisation element is one which, by virtue of any enactment other than section 86(5)(b) of or Schedule 13 to the [1982 c. 39.] Finance Act 1982, is treated for the purposes of the 1979 Act as one on which neither a gain nor a loss accrues to the person making the disposal, then, for the purpose only of determining the Part I gain (if any) on the disposal, that enactment shall be deemed not to apply to it (but without prejudice to the application of that enactment to any earlier disposal).
(4) In any case where a disposal involving an equalisation element is made by a company which has made an election under Schedule 6 to the [1983 c. 28.] Finance Act 1983 (indexation: election for pooling) and the asset disposed of consists of or includes securities which, by virtue of paragraph 3(3) of that Schedule, are to be treated for the purposes of the 1979 Act as a single asset or part of a single asset, then, for the purpose only of determining the Part I gain (if any) on the disposal—
(a) the reference in paragraph 2(2)(b) above to an indexation allowance under Chapter III of Part III of the Finance Act 1982 shall be construed as including a reference to an indexation allowance under Schedule 6 to the Finance Act 1983; and
(b) if some of the securities comprised in the asset disposed of were acquired by the company making the disposal before 1st January 1984 and some were not, paragraph 4(2) above shall not apply and paragraph 5 above shall have effect with the omission of sub-paragraph (2) (together with the reference to it in sub-paragraph (1)).
(5) The reference in sub-paragraph (4)(b) above to securities acquired before 1st January 1984 includes a reference to securities which, by virtue of any provision of paragraph 4 above, are treated as so acquired.
Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988