{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-and-corporation-taxes-act-1988/schedule-24/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-and-corporation-taxes-act-1988/schedule-24/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/1",
  "legislation_title": "Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-and-corporation-taxes-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/24/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The company shall be assumed to have become resident in the United Kingdom (and, accordingly, within the charge to corporation tax) at the beginning of the first accounting period—\n(a) in respect of which an apportionment under section 747(3) falls to be made, . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nand that United Kingdom residence shall be assumed to continue throughout subsequent accounting periods of the company (whether or not an apportionment falls to be made in respect of all or any of them) until the company ceases to be controlled by persons resident in the United Kingdom.\n(2) Except in so far as the following provisions of this Schedule otherwise provide, for the purposes of calculating a company’s chargeable profits or corresponding United Kingdom tax for any accounting period which is not the first such period referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above (and, in particular, for the purpose of applying any relief which is relevant to two or more accounting periods), it shall be assumed that a calculation of chargeable profits or, as the case may be, corresponding United Kingdom tax has been made for every previous accounting period throughout which the company was, by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) above, assumed to have been resident in the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 24 para. 2(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 182 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 36 para. 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 24 para. 2(1)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 17 para. 37 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 17 para. 18(a); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 24 para. 2(1)(b) and preceding word omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 16 para. 6 of the repealing Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 16 para. 2(6)(c) (with Sch. 16 paras. 7, 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 24 para. 2(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 17 para. 37 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), Sch. 17 para. 18(b); S.I. 1998/3173, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/1/schedule/24/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:49:54.309394+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."
}