Introduction Background
3.The Government announced at Budget 2013 that they intend to legislate in Finance Bill 2014 so that the CT main rate will be unified with the small profits rate from the financial year 2015.
4.Profits from oil extraction and oil rights in the UK and the UK Continental Shelf (“ring fence profits”) will continue to be subject to a separate main rate of CT applicable to those ring fenced profits. Profits from activities which are not ring fenced will continue to be charged at the main rate of CT applicable to all other profits.