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Paragraph 1 Unassessed transfer pricing profits: corporate partnersF1

(1)

For the purposes of this Part of this Act, a company has unassessed transfer pricing profits as a corporate partner of a partnership in relation to a return period if—

(a)

the company is or has been a partner in the partnership;

(b)

a partnership return in respect of the partnership has been made and delivered in respect of the return period,

(c)

provision has been made or imposed as between the partnership and another person by means of a transaction or series of transactions,

(d)

the partnership’s profits and losses calculated under section 1259 of CTA 2009 for one or more relevant accounting periods are subject to a transfer pricing requirement in relation to that provision,

(e)

a share of the partnership’s profit or loss calculated under section 1259 of CTA 2009 for one or more of those relevant accounting periods is brought into account in calculating the company’s profit or loss for one or more accounting periods for corporation tax purposes, and

(f)

the transfer pricing requirement was not reflected, or is not wholly reflected, in the partnership’s profits and losses that were—

(i)

included in the partnership return, and

(ii)

calculated under section 1259 of CTA 2009.

(2)

For the purposes of this Part of this Act, the unassessed transfer pricing profits of the company for an accounting period are the profits that would be brought into account in calculating the company’s profit or loss for that accounting period for corporation tax purposes, if the amount of the partnership’s profit calculated under section 1259 of CTA 2009 for each of the relevant accounting periods mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(e) was taken to be the amount of the partnership’s unassessed transfer pricing profits for that relevant accounting period (and no other amount).

(3)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), the partnership’s unassessed transfer pricing profits for a relevant accounting period are—

(a)

to the extent that the transfer pricing requirement requires profits that are not reflected in the partnership return to be brought into account in calculating the partnership’s profits or losses calculated under section 1259 of CTA 2009 for the relevant accounting period, those profits, and

(b)

to the extent that the transfer pricing requirement requires losses that are reflected in the partnership’s return to not be brought into account in calculating the partnership’s profits or losses calculated under section 1259 of CTA 2009 for the relevant accounting period, the profits that would, if they were brought into account in that calculation, produce the same result as not bringing into account those losses.

(4)

The partnership’s profits and losses calculated under section 1259 of CTA 2009 for a relevant accounting period are subject to a transfer pricing requirement in relation to the provision if—

(a)

the partnership’s profits and losses calculated under section 1259 of CTA 2009 for the relevant accounting period are required to be calculated as if the arm’s length provision (within the meaning of Part 4) had been made or imposed instead of the provision, or

(b)

an adjustment to the partnership’s profits and losses calculated under section 1259 of CTA 2009 for the relevant accounting period that result from the provision is required by virtue of any other enactment where, but for that enactment, paragraph (a) would have applied in relation to the provision.

(5)

In this paragraph—

(a)

for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a), a company that is or has been a partner in the partnership includes a company that is or has been an indirect partner in the partnership for the purposes of section 12AA of TMA 1970, and

(b)

accordingly, the reference in sub-paragraph (2) to the partnership’s profits or losses being brought into account in calculating the profit or loss of a company that is or has been a partner in a partnership includes those profits or losses being brought into account indirectly.

(6)

In Parts 1 to 3 of this Schedule—

(a)

“partnership return” means a return in pursuance of a notice under section 12AA(2) or (3) of TMA 1970 (and where the return has been amended, reference to the return is to that return as amended);

(b)

“relevant corporate partner”, in relation to a partnership and a return period, means a company which has unassessed transfer pricing profits for one or more accounting periods as a corporate partner of the partnership in relation to the return period by virtue of this paragraph (and references to the relevant corporate partner’s unassessed transfer pricing profits are to be construed accordingly);

(c)

“return period” means the period in respect of which a partnership return is required pursuant to the notice under section 12AA(2) or (3) of TMA 1970;

(d)

“relevant accounting period”, in relation to a partnership return, means an accounting period of the firm (within the meaning of Part 17 of CTA 2009) ending within the return period.

Annotations

Textual amendments

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Sch. A1 inserted (for accounting periods beginning on or after 1.1.2026) by Finance Act 2026 (c. 11), s. 46(2), Sch. 5 para. 1(2)