{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007/section-742C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007/section-742C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/3",
  "legislation_title": "Income Tax Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007",
  "path": "section/742C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "742C",
  "heading": "Value of benefit provided by a payment by way of loan",
  "text": "(1) The value of the benefit provided to a person (P) by a payment by way of loan to P is, for each tax year in which the loan is outstanding, the amount (if any) by which—\n(a) the amount of interest that would have been payable in that year on the loan if interest had been payable on the loan at the official rate, exceeds\n(b) the amount of interest (if any) actually paid by P in that year on the loan.\n(2) In this section and section 742D the “official rate”, in relation to interest, means the rate applicable from time to time under section 178 of the Finance Act 1989 for the purposes of Chapter 7 of Part 3 of ITEPA 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 742B-742E and cross-heading inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 9 para. 3 of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), Sch. 9 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 742C-742E applied by 2005 c. 5, s. 643B(3) (as inserted (with effect for the tax year 2018-19 and subsequent years) by Finance Act 2018 (c. 3), Sch. 10 paras. 11, 21(1) (with Sch. 11 para. 22))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 742C-742E applied by 2005 c. 5, s. 643I(8) (as inserted (with effect for the tax year 2018-19 and subsequent years) by Finance Act 2018 (c. 3), Sch. 10 paras. 11, 21(1) (with Sch. 11 para. 22))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/3/section/742C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:03.599581+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."
}