{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1993/section-171",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1993/section-171.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/34",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1993",
  "path": "section/171",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "171",
  "heading": "Taxation of profits and allowance of losses.",
  "text": "(1) Income tax for any year of assessment on the profits arising from a member’s underwriting business shall be computed on the profits of that year of assessment.\n(2) As respects the profits arising to a member from his underwriting business for any year of assessment—\n(a) the aggregate of those profits shall be chargeable to tax under Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 as the profits of a trade carried on in the United Kingdom; and\n(b) accordingly, no part of those profits shall be treated as relevant foreign income, or be charged to tax under any other Part of that Act or any Part of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003;\nbut nothing in this subsection shall affect the manner in which the amount of any profits arising from assets forming part of an ancillary trust fund is to be computed.\n(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Subsection (2) above does not apply in relation to any profits arising before 6th April 1993 from assets forming part of an ancillary trust fund.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 171(2)(a)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 883(1) of the amending Act) by Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (c. 5), s. 883(1), Sch. 1 para. 464(2) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 171(2A) repealed (31.7.1997 with effect in accordance with s. 36 and Sch. 6 para. 20(3) of the amending Act) by 1997 c. 58, ss. 36, 52, Sch. 6 para. 20(2)(3), Sch. 8 Pt. II(11) Note"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 171(2B) omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 73 of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2016 (c. 24), Sch. 1 para. 55"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 171(3) repealed (3.5.1994 with effect for the year 1996-97 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1994 c. 9, ss. 228, 258, Sch. 21 para. 1(2)(3)(b), Sch. 26 Pt. V(25) Note 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 171 modified (9.3.1995 with effect in relation to profits or losses of a member's underwriting business arising in the underwriting year 1994 or 1995) by S.I. 1995/352, reg. 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/34/section/171",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:56.691459+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."
}