Introduction Financing-Arrangement-Funded Transfers to Shareholders (“FAFTS”) and Contingent Loans
22.Paragraph 4 provides clarification of the rules governing FAFTS. FA 2008 introduced new rules to deal with FAFTS relating to non-profit funds. FAFTs are a type of financing arrangement whereby a loan made to, or financial reinsurance arrangement made by, an insurance company can have the effect of accelerating taxable surplus. For contingent loans these rules replaced the provisions of section 83ZA of FA 1989. Paragraph 4 of Schedule 17 provided transitional rules where a contingent loan was in place when the new rules came into effect (that is in relation to accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2008).