Legislation – Finance Act 2024

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Introduction

Part 1
Income tax and corporation tax

Chapter 1 Reliefs for businesses etc

Capital allowances for companies

1 Permanent full expensing etc for expenditure on plant or machinery

Research and development

2 New regime for research and development carried out by companies

Films, television programmes, video games etc

3 Films, television programmes and video games produced by companies

4 Theatrical productions made by companies

5 Orchestral concerts produced by companies

6 Museum and gallery exhibitions produced by companies

7 Sections 3 to 6: administration of reliefs

Real Estate Investment Trusts

8 Miscellaneous amendments relating to REITs

Tonnage tax

9 Managers of ships

10 Increase in capital allowances limit for ship leasing

Other reliefs

11 Extension of EIS relief and VCT relief to shares issued before 6 April 2035

12 Relief for payments of compensation by government etc to companies

13 Enterprise management incentives: time limits

Chapter 2 Pensions

14 Provision in connection with abolition of the lifetime allowance charge

15 MPs’ pension scheme etc: rectification of discrimination

Chapter 3 Other income tax measures

Calculation of trade profits etc

16 Provision relating to the cash basis

Other

17 PAYE regulations: special types of payer or payee

18 Carer’s allowance supplement: correction of statutory reference

Part 2
Other taxes

19 Growth market exemption: qualifying UK multilateral trading facilities etc

20 Capital-raising arrangements etc

21 New investment exemption

22 Ensuring consistency of Parts 3 and 4 of F(No.2)A 2023 with OECD rules etc

23 Rates of tobacco products duty

24 Rates of vehicle excise duty

25 Rates of air passenger duty

26 Rebate on heavy oil and certain bioblends used for heating

27 Vehicle excise duty exemption for foreign vehicles

28 Interpretation of VAT and excise law

29 Rates of landfill tax

30 Rate of aggregates levy

31 Rate of plastic packaging tax

Part 3
Miscellaneous and final

32 Increase in maximum terms of imprisonment for tax offences

33 Disqualification of directors etc promoting tax avoidance schemes

34 Promoters of tax avoidance: failure to comply with stop notice etc

35 Construction industry scheme: gross payment status

36 Additional information to be contained in returns under TMA 1970 etc

37 Commencement of rules imposing penalties for failure to make returns etc

38 Abbreviations used in Act

39 Short title

SCHEDULES

Schedule 1 Research and development

Schedule 2 Films, television programmes and video games

Schedule 3 Theatrical productions

Schedule 4 Orchestral concerts

Schedule 5 Museum and gallery exhibitions

Schedule 6 Administration of creative sector reliefs

Schedule 7 Real Estate Investment Trusts

Schedule 8 Tonnage tax

Schedule 9 Pensions

Schedule 10 Calculation of trade profits etc

Schedule 11 Capital-raising arrangements etc

Schedule 12 Pillar Two

Schedule 13 Promotion of tax avoidance schemes

Schedules

Schedule 12Pillar Two

Part 3Domestic top-up tax

Investment entities

43

(1)

In section 267—

(a)

in subsection (2), after “subsection (1)” insert “or (3B)(b), and

(b)

after subsection (3A) (as inserted by paragraph 42) insert—

“(3B)

An investment entity is a DTT excluded entity if—

(a)

it is not a member of a group, or

(b)

it is a member of group that is comprised only of members located in the United Kingdom.

(3C)

An investment entity that is a member of a group that is not comprised only of members located in the United Kingdom—

(a)

is not to be regarded as a qualifying entity, but

(b)

top-up amounts of that entity are to be determined under sections 220 to 224 (see also section 272(8)(e) which has the effect of attributing those amounts to standard members of the group that are qualifying entities and are located in the same territory as the investment entity).

(3D)

An investment entity that falls within subsection (3C) is not to be regarded as a member of any group for any purpose other than for the purposes of—

(a)

determining the top-up amounts of that entity under those sections,

(b)

applying Condition C in section 266 in relation to other members of the group (revenue threshold for group), and

(c)

subsections (8)(e) (9), (10) and (11) of section 272.”

(2)

In consequence of the amendments made by sub-paragraph (1), in section 266(1) (qualifying entities) omit “or an investment entity”.

(3)

In section 272 (determining top-up amounts of entity that is a member of a group)—

(a)

in subsection (8), in paragraph (e)—

(i)

after “effect” insert “in relation to a qualifying entity that is a standard member of a group” and

(ii)

after “of” insert “qualifying”, and

(b)

after that subsection insert—

“(9)

An investment entity is a qualifying investment entity in relation to a qualifying entity if it is

(a)

a member of the same group as the qualifying entity, and

(b)

located in United Kingdom.

(10)

Subsection (11) applies to qualifying entities that are standard members of a group for an accounting period where—

(a)

the total top-up amount referred to in section 193 for that period is greater than nil as a result of the modification of that section set out in subsection (8)(e), and

(b)

none of those members have made a profit for that period (and accordingly will not, ignoring subsection (11), have top-up amounts).

(11)

Where this subsection applies, each of those members has a top-up amount (for the purposes of domestic top-up tax) equal to the total top-up amount divided by the number of qualifying entities that are standard members of the group.”