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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporation-tax-act-2010/section-165",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporation-tax-act-2010/section-165.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/4",
  "legislation_title": "Corporation Tax Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporation-tax-act-2010",
  "path": "section/165",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "165",
  "heading": "Proportion of profits available for distribution to which company is entitled",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for the purpose of determining the proportion to which a company (“company A”) is, at any time, beneficially entitled of any profits available for distribution to the equity holders of another company (“company B”).\n(2) The proportion is the proportion to which company A would, at that time, be beneficially entitled on a distribution in money to the equity holders of company B (“the profit distribution”) of—\n(a) an amount of profits equal to company B's total profits of the relevant accounting period (see section 168), or\n(b) if there are no such total profits, profits of £100.\n(3) It does not matter for the purposes of subsection (2) if any of company B's total profits are not actually distributed.\n(4) If company B is non-UK resident, company B's total profits are to be calculated as if it were UK resident.\n(5) For the purposes of the profit distribution, it is to be assumed that no payment is made by way of repayment of share capital or of the principal secured by any loan unless that payment is a distribution.\n(6) Subject to subsection (5), if an equity holder is entitled as such to a payment which (apart from this subsection) would not be a distribution, the equity holder is nevertheless to be treated as entitled to the payment on the profit distribution.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 5 Ch. 6 applied in part (with effect in accordance with s. 51 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), s. 50(2)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. 5 Ch. 6 applied (temp.) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 10 para. 43 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), Sch. 10 para. 6(2) (as amended (5.1.2023) by The Finance Act 2022, Schedule 10 (Public Interest Business Protection Tax) (Substitution of Date) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1321), regs. 1, 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 165 applied (with modifications) (24.2.2022) by Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), Sch. 2 para. 5(4) (as amended (11.7.2023) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2023 (c. 30), Sch. 4 para. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Pt. 5 applied (with modifications) (24.2.2022) by Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), Sch. 2 para. 47(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Pt. 5 Ch. 6 applied by 1992 c. 12, s. 236T(2) (as inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 37 paras. 2, 3 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2014 (c. 26), Sch. 37 para. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Pt. 5 Ch. 6 applied by 2007 c. 3, s. 257MV(8) (as inserted (17.7.2014) by Finance Act 2014 (c. 26), Sch. 11 para. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Pt. 5 Ch. 6 applied by 2010 c. 8, s. 345(7)-(10) (as substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 39(4) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2014 (c. 26), s. 39(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/4/section/165",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:29.433154+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}