Corporation Tax Act, 1976

Distributions made out of capital profits of companies.

90.—(1) Where on or after the 6th day of April, 1976, a company resident in the State makes a distribution partly out of capital profits of the company and partly out of other profits, the distribution shall be treated as if it consisted of two distributions respectively made out of capital profits and out of other profits.

(2) Notwithstanding section 1 (2) (introduction for companies of corporation tax), where a company on or after the 6th day of April, 1976, makes a distribution (including part of a distribution treated under subsection (1) as a distribution) and the distribution is made, or is deemed under subsection (5) to have been made, out of capital profits of the company, the company shall, for the year of assessment in which the distribution is made, be assessed to income tax at the standard rate under Case IV of Schedule D on an amount the income tax on which at the standard rate for that year is equal to the amount of the tax credit which would apply in respect of the distribution if the person receiving it were an individual resident in the State.

(3) Where a distribution (including part of a distribution treated under subsection (1) as a distribution) to which subsection (2) applies is made partly out of capital profits which have been charged to capital gains tax or, after the reduction provided for by section 13 (computation of chargeable gains), to corporation tax and partly out of other capital profits, the distribution shall be treated as if it consisted of two distributions respectively made out of capital profits which have been so charged and out of other capital profits.

(4) Where on or after the 6th day of April, 1976, a company makes a distribution out of capital profits which have been charged to capital gains tax or, after the reduction provided for by section 13, to corporation tax, the tax charged under subsection (2) shall be reduced by an amount equal to the amount of capital gains tax which would be chargeable under section 3 of the Capital Gains Tax Act, 1975 , for the year of assessment in which the distribution is made on an amount equal to the aggregate of the distribution and the tax credit which would apply in respect of the distribution if the person receiving it were an individual resident in the State.

(5) Where a distribution (being a distribution by virtue of section 96 (payments to participators or associates) or section 97 (interest paid to directors and their associates)) is made by a company, the distribution shall be deemed to be made out of the profits of the company to the extent of those profits, and where the distribution exceeds the profits of the company the amount of the excess shall be deemed to have been made out of capital profits of the company which have not been charged to capital gains tax or to corporation tax.

(6) Any amount on which by virtue of this section income tax is charged on a company by an assessment under Case IV of Schedule D shall not be regarded as income of the company for any purpose of the Tax Acts.