Introduction Details of the Section
2.Subsection (1) repeals sections 444BA to 444BD of ICTA.
3.Subsection (2) sets out consequential repeals arising from the repeal of sections 444BA to 444BD of ICTA.
4.Subsection (3) provides that the amendments made by this section shall have effect in relation to accounting periods ending on or after a date to be specified in a Treasury order.   Different days may be specified for different cases.
5.Subsection (4) provides that one sixth of an insurance company’s existing equalisation or equivalent reserve is to be treated as a receipt of the company’s business in each of the six calendar years beginning with the calendar year in which the date specified in an order made by the Treasury falls.
6.Subsection (5) provides that if there are different accounting periods falling in a calendar year, the receipt is to be apportioned between those periods by reference to the number of days of the calendar year falling in those periods.
7.Subsection (6) provides that if a company ceases to carry on the business in a calendar year before the expiry of the six year period referred to in subsection (4) any remaining balance of the existing equalisation or equivalent reserve is to be treated as a receipt of the company’s business in the accounting period in which the company ceased to carry it on.
8.Subsection (7) defines the terms “equalisation reserve”, “equivalent reserve”, “existing equalisation or equivalent reserve” and “the company’s business”.
9.Subsection (8) sets out the tax treatment where an insurance company has made an election under section 444BA(4) of ICTA for an accounting period ending before the date specified in a Treasury order and such a sum would have been carried forward as a deductible amount.   The amount shall be deducted from the amount of the equalisation or equivalent reserve as it stood immediately before the accounting period to which it would have been carried forward.
10.Subsection (9) provides that references to section 444BA of ICTA include that section as modified by sections 444BB or 444BC of that Act.