Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Act 2020

Amendment of section 616 of Act of 1997

57. Section 616 of the Act of 1997 is amended, in subsection (1), by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a):

“(a) subject to sections 617(5), 621(1) and 623(7), a reference to a company or companies shall apply only to a company or companies, as limited by subsection (2), being a company or, as the case may be, companies which, by virtue of the law of a relevant Member State, is or are resident for the purposes of tax in such a relevant Member State, and for this purpose—

‘relevant Member State’, in addition to the meaning assigned to that expression by subsection (7), shall be deemed to include the United Kingdom;

‘tax’, in relation to a relevant Member State other than the State, means any tax imposed in the relevant Member State which corresponds to corporation tax in the State;

and references to a member or members of a group of companies shall be construed accordingly;”.