Paragraph 49
Income of a tonnage tax company consisting in a dividend or other distribution of an overseas company is relevant shipping income if the following conditions are met.
The conditions are—
that the overseas company operates qualifying ships;
that F3, where the overseas company operates qualifying ships, the 75% limit is not exceeded in relation to the overseas company in any accounting period in respect of which the distribution is paid;
that all the income of the overseas company is such that, if it were a tonnage tax company, it would be relevant shipping income;
that the distribution is paid entirely out of profits arising at a time when—
the conditions in paragraphs (a) to (d) were met, and
the tonnage tax company was subject to tonnage tax; and
the profits of the overseas company out of which the distribution is paid are subject to a tax on profits (in the country of residence of the company or elsewhere, or partly in that country and partly elsewhere).
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(c) the “75% limit” is the requirement set out in paragraph 37 (requirement that not more than 75% of tonnage is chartered in) as it applies to a single company.
In this paragraph an “overseas company” means a company that is not resident in the United Kingdom.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in Sch. 22 para. 49(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Taxes (Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/332), regs. 1, 2(7)
- F2
Words in Sch. 22 para. 49(2)(b) omitted (1.4.2022 for accounting periods beginning on or after that date) by virtue of Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), s. 25(9)(12)
- F3
Words in Sch. 22 para. 49(2)(c) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 8 para. 8 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2024 (c. 3), Sch. 8 para. 7(2)