Statutory Instruments
2016 No. 881
Corporation Tax
The Postal Services Act 2011 (Taxation) (Amendment) Regulations 2016
Made
6th September 2016
Laid before the House of Commons
7th September 2016
Coming into force
30th September 2016
The Treasury make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 23(1) and (5) of the Postal Services Act 2011( 1 ).
Citation, commencement and effect
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Postal Services Act 2011 (Taxation) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 30th September 2016.
(2) These Regulations have effect for accounting periods commencing on or after 1st April 2015.
Amendments to the Postal Services Act 2011 (Taxation) Regulations 2012
2. —(1)Regulation 6 (exemption from corporation tax) of the Postal Services Act 2011 (Taxation) Regulations 2012( 2 ) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1), for “that begins and ends before 1st April 2015” substitute “in which it is wholly owned by the Crown within the meaning of sections 14 and 15(1) of the Act”.
(3) After paragraph (1) insert—
“ (1A) Where BCL ceases to be wholly owned by the Crown otherwise than at the end of an accounting period—
(a) the accounting period during which it ceases to be wholly owned by the Crown is treated for the purposes of corporation tax as ending when it so ceases; and
(b) its profits and losses are to be computed accordingly for those purposes. ”
Guy Opperman
Andrew Griffiths
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
6th September 2016
2011 c.5 ; these Regulations are made in respect of corporation tax which is a relevant tax under section 23(9); BCL is a fund within section 21(1)(c) as it was established by the Secretary of State to hold the assets transferred pursuant to the Postal Services Act 2011 (Transfer of Assets) Order 2012 ( S.I. 2012/688 ).