Introduction Overview Chapter 5: Assets etc Section 545: Cancellation of tax advantage
1713.This section provides that an officer of Revenue and Customs may counteract a tax advantage obtained by a company which is, or is a member of, a UK REIT (including a joint venture company) if the officer thinks that the company has tried to obtain a tax advantage. It is based on sections 117(1) to (5) and 134(1) of, and paragraph 15(1) of Schedule 17 to, FA 2006.
1714.Subsections (1), (4) and (6)refer to “an officer of Revenue and Customs” rather than to “the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs”. See Change 5 in Annex 1.
1715.Subsection (3) sets out how a tax advantage may be counteracted. Subsection (3)(a) provides that an assessment may be made on the company. For non-UK companies, such an assessment may be to income tax or corporation tax.
1716.Subsection (4) provides that an officer of Revenue and Customs may assess (in addition to the assessment mentioned in subsection (3)(a)) a UK REIT to an amount of tax to cancel out the tax advantage.