Introduction Overview
2424.This Part rewrites sections 776 to 778 of ICTA for the purposes of corporation tax.
2425.Sections 776 to 778 of ICTA were enacted as a wide-ranging anti-avoidance rule specifically aimed at transactions in land.
2426.Chapter 3 of Part 13 of ITA rewrote sections 776 to 778 of ICTA for the purposes of income tax, and paragraphs 184 to 186 of Schedule 1 to ITA consequentially amended those sections to apply solely for the purposes of corporation tax.
2427.This Part replicates Chapter 3 of Part 13 of ITA as far as possible. It differs from Chapter 3 of Part 13 of ITA in two respects.
2428.First, sections 776 to 778 of ICTA, as amended by ITA, do not include any provisions corresponding to section 759(8) of ITA (person liable: territorial scope), section 767 of that Act (exemption: private residences) or section 768(6) to (8) of that Act (income treated as highest part of individual’s total income), because those provisions are income tax specific. Accordingly, no such provisions appear in the corporation tax version of the legislation.
2429.Second, where necessary this Part uses concepts specific to corporation tax where Chapter 3 of Part 13 of ITA uses concepts specific to income tax. For example, since persons other than companies are not liable to corporation tax, this Part uses the word “company” to refer to the taxpayer where Chapter 3 of Part 13 of ITA uses the word “person”.
2430.In rewriting sections 776 to 778 of ICTA for the purposes of income tax, Chapter 3 of Part 13 of ITA included some minor changes in the law. Some of the same changes are made in this Part, for the purposes of corporation tax. They are highlighted in the commentary on sections 821, 831 and 832.
2431.The rewrite of this legislation for the purposes of corporation tax raises three new points of detail, which are highlighted in the commentary on sections 817 and 821 and Schedule 1.