Finance Act 2009

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Interpretation (Part 1). Chapter 2 Income Levy 2. Income levy. Chapter 3 Income Tax 3. Amendment of section 244 (relief for interest paid on certain home loans) of Principal Act. 4. Amendment of section 244A (application of section 244) of Principal Act. 5. Amendment of section 97 (computational rules and allowable deductions) of Principal Act. 6. Income tax: treatment of profits or gains and losses from dealing in residential development land. Chapter 4 Income Tax, Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax 7. Amendment of section 372AW (interpretation, applications for approval and certification) of Principal Act. 8. Capital allowances for certain health-related facilities. 9. Amendment of Part 8 (annual payments, charges and interest) of Principal Act. 10. Life assurance policies and investment funds. Chapter 5 Corporation Tax 11. Corporation tax: treatment of profits or gains and losses from dealing in residential development land. 12. Amendment of section 626B (exemption from tax in the case of gains on certain disposals of shares) of Principal Act. 13 . Intangible assets, etc. Chapter 6 Capital Gains Tax 14. Capital gains: rate of charge. PART 2 Excise 15. Rates of mineral oil tax. 16. Rates of tobacco products tax. 17. Betting duty. 18. Air travel tax. 19. Amendment of section 135B (repayment of amounts in respect of vehicle registration tax in certain cases) of Finance Act 1992. PART 3 Value-Added Tax 20. Interpretation (Part 3). 21. Amendment of section 7 (waiver of exemption) of Principal Act. 22. Amendment of section 7B (transitional measures: waiver of exemption) of Principal Act. PART 4 Stamp Duties 23. Interpretation (Part 4). 24. Exchange of houses. 25. Amendment of section 101 (intellectual property) of Principal Act. 26. Amendment of Part 9 (levies) of Principal Act. PART 5 Capital Acquisitions Tax 27. Amendment of Schedule 2 (computation of tax) to Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003. PART 6 Miscellaneous 28. Interpretation (Part 6). 29. Interest on certain overdue tax. 30. Miscellaneous technical amendments in relation to tax. 31. Care and management of taxes and duties. 32. Short title, construction and commencement. Acts Referred to Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act 1998 1998, No. 24 Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003 2003, No. 1 Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 2000, No. 28 Finance Act 1992 1992, No. 9 Finance Act 1999 1999, No. 2 Finance Act 2001 2001, No. 7 Finance Act 2002 2002, No. 5 Finance Act 2005 2005, No. 5 Finance Act 2008 2008, No. 3 Finance (No. 2) Act 2008 2008, No. 25 European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993 1993, No. 25 Insurance Act 1936 1936, No. 45 Planning and Development Act 2000 2000, No. 30 Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) Act 1980 1980, No. 24 Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) (Amendment) Act 1998 1998, No. 41 Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 1999, No. 31 Succession Duty Act 1853 16 & 17 Vict., c. 39 Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 1997, No. 39 Value-Added Tax Act 1972 1972, No. 22 Value-Added Tax Acts Number 12 of 2009 FINANCE ACT 2009 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE IMPOSITION, REPEAL, REMISSION, ALTERATION AND REGULATION OF TAXATION, OF STAMP DUTIES AND OF DUTIES RELATING TO EXCISE AND OTHERWISE TO MAKE FURTHER PROVISION IN CONNECTION WITH FINANCE INCLUDING THE REGULATION OF CUSTOMS. [3rd June, 2009] BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: PART 1 Income Levy, Income Tax, Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax Chapter 1 Interpretation Interpretation (Part 1). 1.— In this Part “Principal Act” means the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 . Chapter 2 Income Levy Income levy. 2.— (1) The Principal Act is amended— (a) in section 531A(1) by substituting the following for the definition of “ aggregate income”: “ ‘aggregate income for the year of assessment’, in relation to an individual and a year of assessment, means the aggregate of the individual’s relevant emoluments in the year of assessment, including relevant emoluments that are paid in whole or in part for a year of assessment other than the year of assessment during which the payment is made, and relevant income for the year of assessment;”, (b) in section 531B in paragraph (b) of the Table to subsection (1) by substituting the following for all of the words from “The income described in this paragraph” to “in accordance with the Income Tax Acts and—”: “The income described in this paragraph, to be known as ‘relevant income’, is income, without regard to any amount deductible from or deductible in computing total income, from all sources as estimated in accordance with the Tax Acts, other than relevant emoluments, social welfare payments and similar type payments and excluded emoluments, and—”, (c) in section 531B in paragraph (b)(iii) of the Table to subsection (1) by deleting “and”, (d) in section 531B in paragraph (b)(iv) of the Table to subsection (1) by substituting “such payment,” for “such payment.”, (e) in section 531B in paragraph (b) of the Table to subsection (1) by inserting the following after subparagraph (iv): “(v) disregarding expenses, in respect of which an employee may be entitled to relief from income tax, which fall within Regulation 10(3) of the PAYE Regulations, (vi) having regard to any relief arising under subsection (5)(a) of section 201, and paragraphs 6 and 8 of Schedule 3 in respect of payments chargeable to tax under section 123, and (vii) excluding relevant emoluments of an individual who is resident in a territory with which arrangements have been made under section 826(1)(a)(i) in relation to affording relief from double taxation, where those emoluments are the subject of a notification issued under section 984(1).”, (f) in section 531B(2) by substituting the following for paragraph (a): “(a) subject to subsection (3), proves to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners that his or her aggregate income for the year of assessment does not exceed €15,028,”, (g) in section 531B by inserting the following after subsection (2): “(3) For the purposes of determining an individual’s aggregate income for the year of assessment 2009 for the purposes of subsection (2)(a), any payment of relevant emoluments from which income levy was not deducted by an employer, made in the period from 1 January 2009 to 30 April 2009, to which the appropriate portion of €18,304 was applied in that period, shall be disregarded. (4) (a) This subsection applies to emoluments paid to an individual in the period 1 January 2009 to 30 April 2009 in the form of any taxable ex-gratia payment made on the occasion of the redundancy of that individual, which is chargeable to income tax under the provisions of section 123. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Part and subject to paragraph (c), to the extent that emoluments are emoluments to which this subsection applies, those emoluments— (i) shall be charged to income levy for the year of assessment 2009 at the rate of— (I) 1 per cent on the first €100,100 of such emoluments, (II) 2 per cent on the next €150,020 of such emoluments, and (III) 3 per cent on the remainder of such emoluments, and (ii) shall not be reckoned in computing relevant emoluments for that year for any other purpose of this Part. (c) This subsection shall not apply to emoluments paid to an individual if that individual so elects by notice in writing to an inspector after the end of the year of assessment 2009.”, (h) by substituting the following for section 531C: “Rate of charge. 531C.— (1) For the year of assessment 2009, an individual shall be charged to income levy on the individual’s aggregate income for the year of assessment at the rates specified in the Table to this subsection. TABLE Part of aggregate income Rate of income levy The first €75,036 1.67% The next €25,064 3% The next €74,880 3.33% The next €75,140 4.67% The remainder 5% (2) For the year of assessment 2010, and subsequent years of assessment, an individual shall be charged to income levy on the individual’s aggregate income for the year of assessment at the rates specified in the Table to this subsection. TABLE Part of aggregate income Rate of income levy The first €75,036 2% The next €99,944 4% The remainder 6% .”, (i) in section 531D by substituting the following for subsection (2): “(2) (a) As respects any payment of relevant emoluments made to or on behalf of an employee in the period beginning on 1 January 2009 and ending on 30 April 2009, income levy shall be deducted from such emoluments by the employer at any or all of the following rates— (i) 1 per cent where the amount of the relevant emoluments does not exceed €1,925, in the case where the period in respect of which the payment is being made is a week, or a corresponding amount, where the period is greater or less than a week, (ii) 2 per cent on the amount of the excess where the amount of relevant emoluments exceeds €1,925, but does not exceed €4,810, in the case where the period in respect of which the payment is being made is a week, or a corresponding amount, where the period is greater or less than a week, (iii) 3 per cent on the amount of the excess where the amount of relevant emoluments exceeds €4,810, in the case where the period in respect of which the payment is being made is a week, or a corresponding amount, where the period is greater or less than a week. (b) As respects any payment of relevant emoluments made to or on behalf of an employee on or after 1 May 2009, income levy shall be deducted from such emoluments by the employer at any or all of the following rates— (i) 2 per cent where the amount of the relevant emoluments does not exceed €1,443, in the case where the period in respect of which the payment is being made is a week, or a corresponding amount, where the period is greater or less than a week, (ii) 4 per cent on the amount of the excess where the amount of relevant emoluments exceeds €1,443, but does not exceed €3,365, in the case where the period in respect of which the payment is being made is a week, or a corresponding amount, where the period is greater or less than a week, (iii) 6 per cent on the amount of the excess where the amount of relevant emoluments exceeds €3,365, in the case where the period in respect of which the payment is being made is a week, or a corresponding amount, where the period is greater or less than a week.”, and (j) by substituting the following for section 531H: “Assessment, collection, payment and recovery of income levy on aggregate income for the year of assessment. 531H.— (1) Income levy payable for a year of assessment in respect of aggregate income for the year of assessment shall be assessed, charged and paid in all respects as if it was an amount of income tax assessed and charged under the Tax Acts, but without regard to section 1017, and may be stated in one sum (in this section referred to as the ‘aggregate sum’) with the amount of income tax contained in any computation of, or assessment or assessments to, income tax made by or on the individual by whom the income levy is payable for the year of assessment. (2) Where, but for this subsection, no assessment to income levy would be made on an individual for a year of assessment, then an officer of the Revenue Commissioners shall make an assessment to income levy on the individual to the best of the officer’s judgement of the amounts chargeable to income levy, and the provisions of the Tax Acts, including in particular those provisions relating to the assessment, collection and recovery of tax and the payment of interest on unpaid tax, shall apply as respects any assessment to income levy made on the individual by virtue of this subsection, other than any such provisions in so far as they relate to the granting of any allowance, deduction or relief. (3) Where income levy is payable for the year of assessment 2009 in respect of aggregate income for the year of assessment, section 958 shall apply and have effect as if, in accordance with this Part, income levy had been payable for the year of assessment 2008. (4) The Revenue Commissioners may make regulations for the purposes of the proper administration and implementation of this Part, and those regulations may, in particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, include provision for assessment, collection, recovery and repayment of income levy for any year of assessment to which this Part applies.”. (2) This section applies for the year of assessment 2009 and subsequent years of assessment. Chapter 3 Income Tax Amendment of section 244 (relief for interest paid on certain home loans) of Principal Act. 3.— As respects the year of assessment 2009 and subsequent years of assessment, section 244 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following after subsection (1)— “(1A) (a) This section shall not apply as respects interest paid on or after 1 May 2009. (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), this section shall continue to apply— (i) as respects the first 7 years of assessment for which an individual has an entitlement to relief under this section in respect of qualifying interest determined by reference to paragraph (iii) or (iv) of the definition of ‘relievable interest ’, and (ii) as respects a period not exceeding 7 years of assessment for which an individual has an entitlement to relief under this section in respect of qualifying interest in relation to a qualifying loan. (c) (i) Paragraph (b) shall not apply in respect of qualifying interest attributable to that part of a qualifying loan used to repay another qualifying loan (in this paragraph referred to as an ‘existing qualifying loan’) unless the qualifying interest on that existing qualifying loan would, had the existing qualifying loan not been repaid, have been interest referred to in paragraph (b)(i) or (ii). (ii) Where subparagraph (i) applies, the number of years of assessment for which there is an entitlement to relief under this section in respect of qualifying interest attributable to that part of a qualifying loan used to repay the existing qualifying loan shall not exceed the number of years of assessment for which relief would have applied had the existing qualifying loan not been repaid. (d) As respects the year of assessment 2009 only, the definition of ‘relievable interest’ is amended— (i) in paragraph (i) by substituting ‘the amount of qualifying interest paid by the individual in the period 1 January 2009 to 30 April 2009 or, if less, €2,000 and the amount of qualifying interest paid by the individual in the period 1 May 2009 to 31 December 2009 or, if less, €4,000’ for ‘the amount of qualifying interest paid by the individual in the year of assessment or, if less, €6,000’, and (ii) in paragraph (ii) by substituting ‘the amount of qualifying interest paid by the individual in the period 1 January 2009 to 30 April 2009 or, if less, €1,000 and the amount of qualifying interest paid by the individual in the period 1 May 2009 to 31 December 2009 or, if less, €2,000’ for ‘the amount of qualifying interest paid by the individual in the year of assessment or, if less, €3,000’.”. Amendment of section 244A (application of section 244) of Principal Act. 4.— As respects the year of assessment 2009 and subsequent years of assessment, section 244A of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following after subsection (6)— “(7) (a) Notwithstanding any other enactment, an officer of the Revenue Commissioners may request a qualifying lender to provide, in such form as the Revenue Commissioners may require, such information in relation to qualifying mortgage loans granted by the qualifying lender— (i) as will or may assist an officer of the Revenue Commissioners to determine if relief is due under section 244 for a particular year of assessment, and (ii) as is necessary for the proper administration of this section. (b) The qualifying lender shall comply with a request under paragraph (a) no later than— (i) 30 days after receipt of such request, or (ii) any extension of the period referred to in subparagraph (i) as may be agreed with an officer of the Revenue Commissioners. (c) Information provided to the Revenue Commissioners under this subsection shall be used by them only for the purposes of section 244 and this section and, notwithstanding section 872, shall be used for no other purpose.”. Amendment of section 97 (computational rules and allowable deductions) of Principal Act. 5.— Section 97 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following after subsection (2I): “(2J) (a) Notwithstanding subsection (2) but subject to the other provisions of this section (including paragraph (b) of this subsection), the deduction authorised by subsection (2)(e) shall not exceed 75 per cent of the deduction that would, but for this subsection, be authorised by subsection (2)(e) in respect of interest accrued on or after 7 April 2009 on borrowed money employed in the purchase, improvement or repair of a premises which, at the time the interest accrues, is a residential premises and, for the purposes of this subsection, interest on such borrowed money shall be treated as accruing from day to day. (b) For the purposes of paragraph (a)— (i) borrowed money employed on the construction of a residential premises on land in which the person chargeable has an estate or interest shall, together with any borrowed money which that person employed in the acquisition of such land, be deemed to be borrowed money employed in the purchase of a residential premises, and (ii) where a premises consists in part of residential premises and in part of premises which are not residential premises, paragraph (a) shall apply to the interest accrued on the part of the borrowed money employed in the purchase, improvement or repair of the premises that is attributable, on a just and reasonable basis, to residential premises.”. Income tax: treatment of profits or gains and losses from dealing in residential development land. 6.— Part 22 of the Principal Act is amended— (a) in section 644A by inserting the following after subsection (5): “(6) This section shall not apply to profits or gains arising to a person in the year of assessment 2009 or in any subsequent year of assessment.”, and (b) by inserting the following after section 644A: “Treatment of losses from dealing in residential development land. 644AA.— (1) In this section— ‘ adjusted income ’ for a tax year means a person’s income from all sources for the tax year after taking into account any allowance, charge, deduction or loss attributable to a specific source to which the person is entitled in taxing the income from the source or which is required to be made in taxing the person’s income from the source, but without taking into account any allowance, charge, deduction or loss to which the person is entitled, or which is required to be made, in taxing the person’s income from all sources; ‘ adjusted profits or gains ’ in relation to a trade for a tax year means the amount, if any, of the profits or gains from the trade after taking into account any allowance, charge, deduction or loss to which a person is entitled in taxing the trade or which is required to be made in taxing the trade, and references to the adjusted profits or gains from the combined trade or from the non-specified trade shall be construed accordingly; ‘ combined trade ’ means a trade comprising partly of a specified trade and partly of a non-specified trade; ‘ non-specified trade ’, in relation to a combined trade, means the activities and operations of the combined trade that are the part of the trade that is not a specified trade; ‘ relevant loss ’, in relation to a tax year, means— (a) in the case of a specified trade, the full amount of a loss sustained in the specified trade in the tax year, and (b) in the case of a combined trade, so much of the amount of a loss sustained in the combined trade in the tax year as is attributable to a specified trade; ‘specified trade’ means, as the case may be, a trade, or the part of a combined trade, the profits or gains, if any, of which, for a tax year before the tax year 2009, were chargeable to tax in accordance with section 644A(3) (other than by virtue of subsection (5) of that section); ‘ tax ’ means income tax; ‘ tax year ’ means a year of assessment. (2) For the purposes of subsections (3) to (8), where a trade is a combined trade, the part of the trade which is a specified trade and the part of the trade which is a non-specified trade shall each be treated as a separate trade and where, in order to give effect to the provisions of subsections (3) to (8), an apportionment of the total amount receivable from sales made and services rendered in the course of a combined trade and of expenses incurred in that trade is required to be made, such apportionment shall be made in a manner that is just and reasonable. (3) Where, in respect of a tax year before the tax year 2009, a claim is made by a person (in this subsection and subsections (4) to (7) referred to as the ‘ claimant ’) in accordance with subsection (6) of section 381, which claim is in respect of, or includes, a relevant loss, then, notwithstanding subsection (1) of that section, unless the claim is made to and received by the Revenue Commissioners before 7 April 2009, that subsection shall not apply to so much of the loss as is a relevant loss and the claimant shall instead be entitled as regards the relevant loss to such repayment of tax as is provided for by subsection (4). (4) (a) In relation to the relevant loss referred to in subsection (3), the repayment of tax to which the claimant is entitled shall be such amount as is necessary to secure that the aggregate amount of tax for the tax year ultimately borne by the claimant does not exceed the amount which would have been borne by the claimant if the interim amount of tax payable by the claimant for the tax year had been reduced by the amount (in this section referred to as the ‘tax credit’) determined in accordance with subsection (5). (b) For the purposes of this subsection and subsections (6)(a) and (7)(a), the references to the ‘interim amount of tax payable by the claimant for the tax year’ shall be taken to mean the tax which would have been borne by that person for that tax year following any reduction in the income of that person for that tax year, to which the person is entitled in accordance with section 381(1), by— (i) so much of the amount of a loss arising in a combined trade as is attributable to the non-specified trade, and (ii) the amount of any other loss (other than the amount of the relevant loss). (5) The tax credit referred to in subsection (4) shall be an amount equivalent to the amount determined by the formula— A × 20 100 where A is the amount of the relevant loss. (6) (a) Notwithstanding section 382, to the extent that relief has not been fully given under subsection (4) in respect of a relevant loss due to the interim amount of tax payable by the claimant for the tax year being less than the tax credit provided by that subsection, the claimant may claim that the unused portion of the tax credit (in this section referred to as the ‘excess tax credit’) shall be carried forward and, insofar as may be, used to reduce the amount of tax payable on the profits or gains on which that person is assessed under Schedule D in respect of the combined trade for any subsequent tax year. (b) Any relief under this subsection shall be given as far as possible from the tax payable for the first subsequent tax year and, in so far as it cannot be so given, from the tax payable for the next tax year and so on. (7) (a) For the purposes of subsection (6)(a) but subject to paragraph (b), where in a subsequent tax year to which an excess tax credit is carried forward a person’s income comprises profits or gains from a combined trade and other income, the amount of tax payable on the profits or gains from the combined trade for the tax year shall be taken to be an amount equivalent to the amount determined by the formula— B × C D where— B is the interim amount of tax payable by the claimant for the tax year, C is the adjusted profits or gains from the combined trade for the tax year, and D is the claimant’s adjusted income for the tax year. (b) For the purposes of subsection (6)(a), where the tax year to which an excess tax credit is carried forward is a tax year before the tax year 2009, any excess tax credit shall be used to reduce— (i) firstly, the amount of tax, if any, payable in accordance with section 644A(3) on the profits or gains of the specified trade for that tax year, and (ii) secondly, where following the application of subparagraph (i), all or part of the excess tax credit remains unused, the amount of tax payable on the non-specified trade calculated in accordance with paragraph (a) but on the assumption that the following definition was substituted for the definition of C in the formula in that paragraph: ‘C is the adjusted profits or gains from the non-specified trade for the tax year, and’. (8) (a) Where a claim under section 382 is made in respect of a relevant loss, or part of a relevant loss, sustained in a tax year before the tax year 2009 (other than a relevant loss to which a claimant is entitled to a repayment of tax under subsection (4)) then, notwithstanding subsection (1) of that section, unless the claim is made to and received by the Revenue Commissioners before 7 April 2009, that subsection shall not apply, and instead the claimant shall, in relation to the amount of the relevant loss to which the claim relates, be entitled to carry forward a tax credit determined in accordance with paragraph (b). (b) The amount of the tax credit referred to in paragraph (a) shall be an amount equivalent to the amount determined by the formula— E × 20 100 where E is the relevant loss, or the part of the relevant loss, in respect of which the claim under section 382 relates. (c) The amount of the tax credit a claimant is entitled to carry forward in accordance with paragraph (a) shall be treated as an excess tax credit of the kind referred to in subsection (6)(a). (9) (a) Where a claim to relief under section 385 is made in respect of a terminal loss sustained in a combined trade, then, for the purposes of subsection (1) of that section, unless the claim is made to and received by the Revenue Commissioners before 7 April 2009, that subsection shall apply in relation to so much of the terminal loss as is attributable to the period before 1 January 2009, as if the part of the combined trade which was a specified trade and the part of the combined trade which was a non-specified trade were each separate trades and sections 386 to 389 shall apply accordingly. (b) Where, in order to give effect to the provisions of paragraph (a), an apportionment of the total amount receivable from sales made and services rendered in the course of a combined trade and of expenses incurred in that trade is required to be made, such apportionment shall be made in a manner that is just and reasonable.”. Chapter 4 Income Tax, Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax Amendment of section 372AW (interpretation, applications for approval and certification) of Principal Act. 7.— Section 372AW of the Principal Act is amended— (a) in subsection (1) by substituting the following for the definition of “ qualifying period”: “ ‘ qualifying period ’ means the period commencing on 1 June 2008 and ending on 31 May 2013;”, and (b) in subsection (2)(b) by substituting “2 years” for “one year”. Capital allowances for certain health-related facilities. 8.— Part 9 of the Principal Act is amended— (a) in section 268(9) by substituting the following for paragraph (d): “(d) by reference to paragraph (g), as respects capital expenditure incurred in the period commencing on 3 December 1997 and ending— (i) on 31 December 2009, or (ii) where subsection (17)(a) applies, on 30 June 2010, or (iii) where subsection (17)(b) applies, on 30 June 2011,”, (b) in section 268(9) by substituting the following for paragraphs (f) and (g): “(f) by reference to paragraph (i), as respects capital expenditure incurred in the period commencing on 2 December 1998 and ending— (i) on 31 December 2009, or (ii) where subsection (17)(a) applies, on 30 June 2010, or (iii) where subsection (17)(b) applies, on 30 June 2011, (g) by reference to paragraph (j), as respects capital expenditure incurred in the period commencing— (i) where subsection (2A)(d)(i) applies, on 15 May 2002, or (ii) where subsection (2A)(d)(ii) applies, on 28 March 2003, and ending— (I) on 31 December 2009, or (II) where subsection (17)(a) applies, on 30 June 2010, or (III) where subsection (17)(b) applies, on 31 December 2013,”, (c) in section 268(9) by substituting the following for paragraph (i): “(i) by reference to paragraph (l), as respects capital expenditure incurred in the period commencing on 23 January 2007 and ending— (i) on 31 December 2009, or (ii) where subsection (17)(a) applies, on 30 June 2010, or (iii) where subsection (17)(b) applies, on 30 June 2011, and”, (d) in section 268 by inserting the following after subsection (16): “(17) (a) This paragraph shall apply where— (i) capital expenditure is incurred on the construction or refurbishment of a building or structure referred to in paragraphs (g), (i), (j) or (l) of subsection (1), (ii) the construction or refurbishment work on the building or structure represented by that expenditure is exempted development for the purposes of the Planning and Development Act 2000 by virtue of section 4 of that Act or by virtue of Part 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 ( S.I. No. 600 of 2001 ) (in this subsection referred to as the ‘Regulations of 2001’), and (iii) not less than 30 per cent of the total construction or refurbishment costs has been incurred on or before 31 December 2009. (b) This paragraph shall apply where— (i) capital expenditure is incurred on the construction or refurbishment of a building or structure referred to in paragraphs (g), (i), (j) or (l) of subsection (1), (ii) a planning application (not being an application for outline permission within the meaning of section 36 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 ), in so far as planning permission is required, in respect of the construction or refurbishment work on the building or structure represented by that expenditure, is made in accordance with the Regulations of 2001, (iii) an acknowledgement of the application, which confirms that the application was received on or before 31 December 2009, is issued by the planning authority in accordance with article 26(2) of the Regulations of 2001, and (iv) the application is not an invalid application in respect of which a notice was issued by the planning authority in accordance with article 26(5) of the Regulations of 2001.”, and (e) in section 316 by inserting the following after subsection (2B): “(2C) For the purposes only of determining, in relation to a claim for an allowance under this Part, whether and to what extent capital expenditure incurred on the construction or refurbishment of a building or structure referred to in paragraphs (g), (i), (j) or (l) of section 268(1) is incurred or not incurred in any of the periods referred to in paragraphs (d), (f), (g) and (i) of section 268(9), only such an amount of that capital expenditure as is properly attributable to work on the construction or refurbishment of the building or structure actually carried out in any such period shall (notwithstanding subsection (2) and any other provision of the Tax Acts as to the time when any capital expenditure is or is to be treated as incurred) be treated as having been incurred within that period.”. Amendment of Part 8 (annual payments, charges and interest) of Principal Act. 9.— (1) The Principal Act is amended in section 256(1) in the definition of “ appropriate tax ”— (a) in paragraph (a) by substituting “25 per cent” for “23 per cent”, (b) by substituting the following for paragraph (b): “(b) subject to paragraph (c), in the case of interest paid in respect of any other relevant deposit, at the rate of 25 per cent, and”, and (c) by substituting the following for paragraph (c): “(c) in the case of interest paid in respect of a relevant deposit, being a deposit made on or after 23 March 2000, other than interest which is— (i) referred to in paragraph (a), or (ii) payable annually or at more frequent intervals, or (iii) specified interest within the meaning of section 260, at the rate of 28 per cent;”. (2) The Principal Act is amended in section 267B— (a) in subsection (2)(b) by substituting “25 per cent” for “23 per cent”, and (b) in subsection (3)(b) by substituting “25 per cent” for “23 per cent”. (3) This section applies as respects any payment or crediting of relevant interest (within the meaning of Chapter 4 of Part 8 of the Principal Act) made on or after 8 April 2009. Life assurance policies and investment funds. 10.— (1) The Principal Act is amended in section 730F(1)— (a) by substituting the following for paragraph (a): “(a) subject to paragraph (b), where the chargeable event falls on or after 1 January 2001, at the rate of 28 per cent,”, and (b) in paragraph (b) by substituting “(S+28) per cent” for “(S+26) per cent”. (2) The Principal Act is amended in section 730J— (a) in paragraph (a)(i) by substituting the following for clause (I): “(I) where the payment is a relevant payment, at the rate of 25 per cent, and”, (b) in paragraph (a)(i)(II)(A) by substituting “(S+28) per cent” for “(S+26) per cent”, (c) in paragraph (a)(i)(II) by substituting the following for subclause (B): “(B) in any other case, at the rate of 28 per cent,”, and (d) in paragraph (a)(ii)(I) by substituting “(H+25) per cent” for “(H+23) per cent”. (3) The Principal Act is amended in section 730K(1)— (a) by deleting “the rate determined by the formula” where it first occurs, (b) in paragraph (a) by substituting “(S+28) per cent” for “(S+26) per cent”, and (c) by substituting the following for paragraph (b): “(b) in any other case, at the rate of 28 per cent”. (4) The Principal Act is amended in Chapter 1A of Part 27— (a) in section 739D by substituting the following for subsection (5A): “(5A) The amount referred to in subsection (2)(dd) is the amount determined by the formula— A × G × 100 100 - (G × 28) where— A is the appropriate tax payable on the transfer by a unit holder of entitlement to a unit in accordance with subsection (2)(d), and G is the amount of the gain on that transfer of that unit divided by the value of that unit.”, (b) in section 739E(1) by substituting the following for paragraph (a): “(a) subject to paragraph (ba), where the amount of the gain is provided by section 739D(2)(a), at the rate of 25 per cent,”, (c) in section 739E(1) by substituting the following for paragraph (b): “(b) subject to paragraph (ba), where the chargeable event happens on or after 1 January 2001 and the amount of the gain is provided by paragraph (b), (c), (d), (dd) or (ddd) of section 739D(2), at the rate of 28 per cent,”, (d) in section 739E(1)(ba) by substituting “(S+28) per cent” for “(S+26) per cent”, and (e) in section 739G(2)(c) by substituting “specified in” for “determined in accordance with”. (5) The Principal Act is amended in Chapter 4 of Part 27— (a) in section 747D(a)(i)(I)(A) by substituting “(S+28) per cent” for “(S+26) per cent”, (b) in section 747D(a)(i)(I) by substituting the following for subclause (B): “(B) in any other case, at the rate of 25 per cent,”, (c) in section 747D(a)(i)(II)(A) by substituting “(S+28) per cent” for “(S+26) per cent”, (d) in section 747D(a)(i)(II) by substituting the following for subclause (B): “(B) in any other case, at the rate of 28 per cent,”, (e) in section 747D(a)(ii)(I) by substituting “(H+25) per cent” for “(H+23) per cent”, (f) in section 747E(1)(b) by deleting “the rate determined”, (g) in section 747E(1)(b)(i)— (i) by inserting “at the rate determined” before “by the formula”, and (ii) by substituting “(S+28) per cent” for “(S+26) per cent”, and (h) in section 747E(1)(b) by substituting the following for subparagraph (ii): “(ii) in any other case, at the rate of 28 per cent.”. (6) (a) Subsection (1) applies and has effect as respects the happening of a chargeable event in relation to a life policy (within the meaning of Chapter 5 of Part 26 of the Principal Act) on or after 8 April 2009. (b) Subsection (2) applies and has effect as respects the receipt by any person of a payment in respect of a foreign life policy (within the meaning of Chapter 6 of Part 26 of the Principal Act) on or after 8 April 2009. (c) Subsection (3) applies and has effect as respects the disposal in whole or in part of a foreign life policy (within the meaning of Chapter 6 of Part 26 of the Principal Act) on or after 8 April 2009. (d) Subsection (4) applies and has effect as respects the happening of a chargeable event in relation to an investment undertaking (within the meaning of section 739B(1) of the Principal Act) on or after 8 April 2009. (e) Paragraphs (a) to (e) of subsection (5) apply and have effect as respects the receipt by any person of a payment in respect of a material interest in an offshore fund (within the meaning of Chapter 4 of Part 27 of the Principal Act) on or after 8 April 2009. (f) Paragraphs (f) to (h) of subsection (5) apply and have effect as respects the disposal in whole or in part by a person of a material interest in an offshore fund (within the meaning of Chapter 4 of Part 27 of the Principal Act) on or after 8 April 2009. Chapter 5 Corporation Tax Corporation tax: treatment of profits or gains and losses from dealing in residential development land. 11.— (1) Part 22 of the Principal Act is amended— (a) in section 644B by inserting the following after subsection (4): “(5) (a) This section shall not apply to an accounting period ending after 31 December 2008. (b) Where an accounting period of a company begins before 31 December 2008 and ends after that day, it shall be divided into 2 parts, one beginning on the day on which the accounting period begins and ending on 31 December 2008 and the other beginning on 1 January 2009 and ending on the day on which the accounting period ends, and both parts shall be treated for the purposes of this section as if they were separate accounting periods of the company.”, and (b) by inserting the following after section 644B: “Relief from corporation tax for losses from dealing in residential development land. 644C.— (1) (a) In this section— ‘ corporation tax referable to dealing in residential develop ment land ’, in relation to an accounting period of a company, means the corporation tax referable to trading income from dealing in residential development land within the meaning of subsection (2) of section 644B as reduced under that section; ‘ relevant corporation tax’ , in relation to an accounting period of a company, means the corporation tax which would be chargeable on the company for the accounting period apart from— (i) this section and sections 239, 241, 420B, 440 and 441, and (ii) where the company carries on a life business (within the meaning of section 706), any corporation tax which would be attributable to policyholders’ profits; ‘ relevant trading income’ has the same meaning as it has in section 243A; ‘residential development land ’ has the same meaning as it has in section 644A(1). (b) Where an accounting period of a company begins before 31 December 2008 and ends after that day, it shall be divided into 2 parts, one beginning on the day on which the accounting period begins and ending on 31 December 2008 and the other beginning on 1 January 2009 and ending on the day on which the accounting period ends, and both parts shall be treated for the purpose of this section as if they were separate accounting periods of the company. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of section 396, where a company claims that a loss incurred in a trade, the operations or activities of which consist of or include dealing in residential development land, in an accounting period ending on or before 31 December 2008 be set off against trading income of an accounting period beginning after that date, the said subsection (1) shall apply as if the amount of the loss so far as it relates to dealing in residential development land were reduced by 20 per cent. (3) Notwithstanding subsection (2) of section 396, for the purposes of that subsection the amount of a loss incurred by a company in an accounting period in a trade, the operations or activities of which consist of or include dealing in residential development land, shall be deemed to be reduced— (a) where the accounting period falls wholly before 1 January 2009, by the lesser of— (i) the amount of the loss, and (ii) the amount of the loss which relates to dealing in residential development land, and (b) where the accounting period begins before 1 January 2009 and ends on or after that day, by the lesser of— (i) the amount of the loss, and (ii) the amount of the loss which relates to dealing in residential development land, incurred in the period beginning when the accounting period begins and ending on 31 December 2008. (4) The computation of the amount of the loss which relates to dealing in residential development land for the purposes of subsections (2), (3)(a)(ii), (3)(b)(ii), (13)(b), (14)(a)(ii), (14)(b)(ii), (20)(b)(i)(II) and (20)(b)(ii)(II) shall take into account receipts and purchases, changes in values of stock and other expenses referable to residential development land and a proportion (determined on a just and reasonable basis) of receipts and expenses partly referable to dealing in residential development land and partly to other land or activities of the trade. (5) Subsections (6) to (12) shall apply to the amount by which a loss in an accounting period is restricted under subsection (3) as if it were a loss (hereinafter in this section referred to as a ‘relevant loss’) incurred by the company in that accounting period in carrying on a separate trade of dealing in residential development land. (6) Where in an accounting period a company incurs a relevant loss, the company may make a claim requiring that the loss be set off against profits of the company, being— (a) income specified in section 21A(4)(b), (b) relevant trading income, (c) income to which section 21A(3) does not apply by virtue of section 21B, and (d) profits attributable to chargeable gains, of that accounting period and, if the company was then carrying on the trade, the losses of which are restricted under subsection (3), and if the claim so requires, of preceding accounting periods ending within the time specified in subsection (7), and subject to that subsection and any relief for an earlier trading loss, to the extent that the profits of any of those accounting periods consists of or includes profits or income specified in paragraphs (a) to (d), those profits or that income shall then be reduced by the amount of the loss to which this section applies or by so much of that amount as cannot be relieved against profits of a later accounting period. (7) For the purposes of subsection (6), the time referred to in that subsection shall be a time immediately preceding the accounting period first mentioned in subsection (6) equal in length to the accounting period in which the loss is incurred, but the amount of the reduction which may be made under subsection (3) in the profits of an accounting period falling partly before that time shall not exceed a part of those profits proportionate to the part of the period falling within that time. (8) Where in any accounting period a company incurs a relevant loss and the amount of that loss exceeds an amount equal to the aggregate of the amounts which could, if a timely claim for such set off had been made by the company, have been set off in respect of that loss for the purposes of corporation tax against profits of the company of that accounting period and any preceding accounting period in accordance with subsection (6), then the company may claim relief under this subsection in respect of the excess. (9) Where for any accounting period a company claims relief under subsection (8) in respect of the excess, the relevant corporation tax of the company for that accounting period and, if the company was then carrying on the trade, the losses of which are reduced under subsection (3), and the claim so requires, for preceding accounting periods ending within the time specified in subsection (10) and subject to that subsection, shall be reduced by an amount equal to 20 per cent of the excess or so much of that amount as cannot be relieved against relevant corporation tax of a later accounting period. (10) For the purposes of subsection (9), the time referred to in that subsection shall be a time immediately preceding the accounting period first mentioned in subsection (9) equal in length to the accounting period in which the loss is incurred, but the amount of the reduction which may be made under subsection (9) in the relevant corporation tax for an accounting period falling partly before that time shall not exceed a part of that corporation tax proportionate to the part of the period falling within that time. (11) (a) Where a company makes a claim for relief for any accounting period under subsection (8) in respect of a relevant loss, an amount (which shall not exceed the amount of the excess in respect of which a claim under subsection (8) may be made), determined in accordance with paragraph (b), shall be treated for the purposes of the Tax Acts as an amount of loss relieved against profits of that accounting period. (b) Subject to paragraph (c), the amount determined in accordance with this paragraph in relation to an accounting period is an amount equal to: T × 100 20 where— T is the amount by which the relevant corporation tax payable is reduced by virtue of subsection (9). (c) (i) In this paragraph ‘ relevant amount ’ means an amount (not being an amount incurred by a company for the purposes of a trade carried on by it) of charges on income, expenses of management or other amount (not being an allowance to which effect is given under section 308(4)) which is deductible from, or may be treated as reducing, profits of more than one description. (ii) For the purposes of paragraph (b), where as respects an accounting period of a company a relevant amount is deductible from, or may be treated as reducing, profits of more than one description, the amount by which corporation tax is reduced by virtue of subsection (9) shall be deemed to be the amount by which it would have been reduced if no relevant amount were so deductible or so treated. (12) Subsections (3) to (11) shall apply in respect of any claim to relief under section 396(2) in respect of a loss in a trade, the operations or activities of which consist of or include dealing in residential development land and the claim is made on or after 7 April 2009. (13) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of section 397, where, on or before 31 December 2008, a company ceasing to carry on a trade, the operations or activities of which include dealing in residential development land, has incurred a loss in the trade, in any accounting period falling wholly or partly within the period of 12 months ending on the day the company ceased to carry on the trade, then, for the purposes of subsection (1) of that section, the amount of that loss shall be deemed to be reduced by the lesser of— (a) the amount of the loss, and (b) the amount of the loss which relates to dealing in residential development land. (14) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of section 397, where, on or after 1 January 2009, a company ceasing to carry on a trade, the operations or activities of which include dealing in residential development land, has incurred a loss in the trade, in any accounting period falling wholly or partly within the period of 12 months ending on the day the company ceased to carry on the trade, and falling wholly or partly before 1 January 2009, then, for the purposes of subsection (1) of that section, the amount of that loss shall be deemed to be reduced— (a) where the accounting period falls wholly before 1 January 2009, by the lesser of— (i) the amount of the loss, and (ii) the amount of the loss which relates to dealing in residential development land, and (b) where the accounting period begins before 1 January 2009 and ends on or after that day, by the lesser of— (i) the amount of the loss, and (ii) the amount of the loss which relates to dealing in residential development land, incurred in the period beginning when the accounting period begins and ending on 31 December 2008. (15) Where a company ceasing to carry on a trade, the operations or activities of which include dealing in residential development land, makes a claim under section 397 in respect of a loss incurred in that trade and the loss is reduced under subsection (13) or (14) for an accounting period, then, subject to subsection (17) and to any relief for earlier losses, the company may claim relief under this subsection for that accounting period in respect of the amount by which the loss has been reduced. (16) Where for any accounting period a company claims relief under subsection (15) in respect of a loss to which that subsection applies, the corporation tax paid by the company in respect of the income of the trade which is corporation tax referable to dealing in residential development land of the company for accounting periods falling wholly or partly within the 3 years preceding the period of 12 months mentioned in subsection (13) or (14) (or within any shorter period throughout which the company has carried on the trade) shall be reduced by an amount equal to 20 per cent of the loss, or by so much of that amount as cannot be relieved under this subsection against corporation tax of a later accounting period. (17) (a) Relief shall not be given under subsection (16) in respect of any loss in so far as the loss has been or can be otherwise taken into account so as to reduce or relieve any charge to tax. (b) Where a loss is incurred in an accounting period falling partly outside the period of 12 months mentioned in subsection (13) or (14), relief shall be given under subsection (16) in respect of a part only of that loss proportionate to the part of the period falling within that period of 12 months, and the amount of the reduction which may be made under that subsection in the corporation tax for an accounting period falling partly outside the 3 years mentioned in subsection (16) shall not exceed a part of that corporation tax proportionate to the part of the period falling within those 3 years. (18) Where relief is claimed under section 397 in respect of an accounting period and the amount of loss, in respect of which relief is claimed, is reduced by virtue of subsection (2), then, for the purposes of granting relief under that section— (a) the income from the trade for the accounting period shall be deemed to be reduced by an amount determined by the formula— U × 100 20 where— U is the amount of the corporation tax referable to dealing in residential development land payable by the company for the accounting period before relief given under subsection (16), and (b) the corporation tax paid by the company shall be deemed to be reduced by any corporation tax referable to dealing in residential development land paid by the company and not repaid to it for that accounting period. (19) Subsections (13) to (18) shall apply in any case where a claim for relief under section 397 is made on or after 7 April 2009 in respect of a loss in a trade, the operations or activities of which include dealing in residential development land. (20) (a) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (6) of section 420 and section 421, where in an accounting period ending before 31 December 2009 the surrendering company has incurred a loss in a trade, the operations or activities of which consist of or include dealing in residential development land, then an amount of the loss, determined in accordance with paragraph (b), may not be set off for the purposes of corporation tax against the total profits of the claimant company for its corresponding accounting period. (b) The amount determined in accordance with this paragraph in relation to an accounting period is an amount equal to— (i) where the accounting period ends on or before 31 December 2008, the lesser of— (I) the amount of the loss, and (II) the amount of the loss which relates to dealing in residential development land, and (ii) where the accounting period begins before 1 January 2009 and ends after that date, the lesser of— (I) the amount of the loss, and (II) the amount of the loss which relates to dealing in residential development land, incurred in the period beginning when the accounting period begins and ending on 31 December 2008. (21) (a) Where in any accounting period the surrendering company has incurred a loss in a trade, the operations and activities of which consist of or include dealing in residential development land, and an amount of the loss (hereinafter in this section referred to as the ‘ restricted loss ’) may not be set off for the purposes of corporation tax against the total profits of the claimant company for its corresponding accounting period by virtue of subsection (20), then the corporation tax (if any) of the claimant company which is referable to dealing in residential development land for its corresponding accounting period may be reduced by 20 per cent of the restricted loss for that period. (b) Where for any accounting period a company claims relief under this subsection, the surrendering company shall be treated as having surrendered, and the claimant company shall be treated as having claimed relief for, trading losses of an amount determined by the formula— V × 100 20 where— V is the amount by which the relevant corporation tax payable for the accounting period is reduced by virtue of paragraph (a). (22) (a) Where in any accounting period the surrendering company has incurred a loss in a trade, the operations and activities of which consist of or include dealing in residential development land, the restricted loss as reduced by any amount treated as relieved by subsection (21)(b), may be set off for the purposes of corporation tax against— (i) income specified in section 21A(4)(b), (ii) relevant trading income, (iii) income to which section 21A(3) does not apply by virtue of section 21B, and (iv) profits attributable to chargeable gains, of the claimant company for its corresponding accounting period as reduced by any amounts allowed as deductions against that income under section 243A or set off against that income under section 396A. (b) Paragraph (a) shall not apply— (i) to so much of a loss as is excluded from section 396(2) by section 396(4) or 663, or (ii) so as to reduce the profits of a claimant company which carries on life business (within the meaning of section 706) by an amount greater than the amount of such profits (before a set off under this subsection) computed in accordance with Case I of Schedule D and section 710(1). (23) Group relief allowed under subsection (22) shall reduce the income from a trade of the claimant company for an accounting period— (a) before relief granted under section 397 in respect of a loss incurred in a succeeding accounting period or periods, and (b) after the relief granted under section 396 in respect of a loss incurred in a preceding accounting period or periods. (24) For the purposes of subsections (21) and (22), in the case of a claim made by a company as a member of a consortium only a fraction of a restricted loss may be set off, and that fraction shall be equal to that member's share in the consortium, subject to any further reduction under section 422(2). (25) Where in any accounting period the surrendering company has incurred a loss in a trade the operations or activities of which consists of or includes dealing in residential development land, and the restricted loss is greater than an amount equal to the aggregate of the amounts which could, if timely claims had been made for such set off, have been set off in respect of that loss for the purposes of corporation tax against— (a) the profits of the company in accordance with subsection (6), or (b) profits of any other company in accordance with subsections (21) and (22), the claimant company may claim relief under subsection (26) for its corresponding accounting period in respect of the amount (hereinafter in this section referred to as the ‘ relievable loss ’) by which the unrelieved loss is greater than that aggregate. (26) (a) Where for any accounting period a company claims relief under subsection (25) in respect of a relievable loss, the relevant corporation tax of the company for the accounting period shall be reduced by an amount equal to 20 per cent of that loss. (b) Where for any accounting period a company claims relief under this section in respect of any relievable loss, the surrendering company shall be treated as having surrendered, and the claimant company shall be treated as having claimed relief for, trading losses of an amount determined by the formula— W × 100 20 where— W is the amount by which the relevant corporation tax payable for the accounting period is reduced by virtue of paragraph (a). (27) Chapter 5 of Part 12 shall apply as if subsections (20) to (26) were contained in that Chapter. (28) Subsections (20) to (27) shall apply in any case where a claim for group relie …