Finance Act, 1997

Amendment of section 36 (investment income reserved for policy holders) of Corporation Tax Act, 1976 .

68.—(1) Section 36 (as amended by section 48 of the Finance Act, 1996 ) of the Corporation Tax Act, 1976 , is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsections:

“(2) Where in a financial year the rate per cent. (in this subsection and in subsection (2A) referred to as the ‘specified rate per cent.’) of corporation tax specified in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 1 exceeds the standard rate per cent. for either of the years of assessment, part of each of which falls within the financial year, the corporation tax in respect of any of the said unrelieved profits of the company for that year shall be reduced on a claim in that regard being made by the company, by so much of that tax as is equal to the amount by which—

(a) the corporation tax chargeable on the company for that year in respect of the part specified in subsection (5) of the said unrelieved profits,

exceeds—

(b) the corporation tax which would be so chargeable in respect of that part of those profits if the specified rate per cent. for each part of the financial year which coincides with a part of a year of assessment were equal to the standard rate per cent. for the year of assessment.

(2A) In computing that part of those profits for the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (2), subsection (1A) of section 13 shall apply as if the rate per cent. of capital gains tax specified in subsection (3) of section 3 of the Capital Gains Tax Act, 1975 , were the specified rate per cent.”.

(2) This section shall apply and have effect as on and from the 1st day of January, 1997.