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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporation-tax-act-2010/section-168",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporation-tax-act-2010/section-168.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/4",
  "legislation_title": "Corporation Tax Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporation-tax-act-2010",
  "path": "section/168",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "168",
  "heading": "Meaning of “the relevant accounting period”",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of determining the proportion of profits or assets to which company A would be beneficially entitled as mentioned in section 165(2) or 166(2) at any time, “the relevant accounting period” is the accounting period of company B in which that time falls.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 168(2) omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 4 para. 4(1) of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), Sch. 4 para. 1(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 168(3) omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 4 para. 4(1) of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), Sch. 4 para. 1(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "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": "C2",
      "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": "C3",
      "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))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "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": "C5",
      "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": "C6",
      "text": "Pt. 5 applied (with modifications) (24.2.2022) by Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), Sch. 2 para. 47(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/4/section/168",
    "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."
}