Statutory Instruments
2024 No. 71
INCOME TAX
CORPORATION TAX
STAMP DUTY LAND TAX, ENGLAND
The Designation of Special Tax Sites (Humber Freeport) Regulations 2024
Made
22nd January 2024
Laid before the House of Commons
23rd January 2024
Coming into force
13th February 2024
The Treasury make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 113 of the Finance Act 2021( 1 ).
The areas designated by these Regulations are either situated in a freeport or considered by the Treasury as being used, or likely to be used, for purposes connected with activities carried on, or likely to be carried on, in a freeport( 2 ).
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Designation of Special Tax Sites (Humber Freeport) Regulations 2024 and come into force on 13th February 2024.
(2) In these Regulations, a reference to an area “shown edged and hatched in red” on a map is a reference to the hatched area extending up to the red edging, but not including the red edging itself.
Designation of special tax site
2. —(1) The areas shown edged and hatched in red on the map entitled “Goole Tax Site” and dated 11th September 2023( 3 ) are designated as special areas( 4 ) for the purposes referred to in section 113(1)(a), (b) and (c) of the Finance Act 2021.
(2) The designation made by paragraph (1) takes effect on 13th February 2024.
Scott Mann
Joy Morrissey
Two of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury
22nd January 2024
2021 c. 26 . Section 113 was amended by section 331 of, and paragraph 19 of Schedule 23 to, the Finance (No. 2) Act 2023 (c. 30) .
“ Freeport ” is defined in section 113(5) of the Finance Act 2021 (“FA 2021”). The relevant freeport for this designation is the area known as the “Humber Freeport”, which is identified edged in blue on the map entitled “Humber Freeport Outer Boundary” and dated 17th November 2023, published with the consent of the Treasury for the purposes of section 113 of FA 2021. The map is available electronically at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/maps-of-uk-freeports . A person unable to access the document electronically can arrange access to a hard copy by inspection free of charge at 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1A 2HQ.
The map entitled “Goole Tax Site” and dated 11th September 2023 is available electronically at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/maps-of-humber-freeport-tax-sites . A person unable to access the document electronically can arrange access to a hard copy by inspection free of charge at 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1A 2HQ. The area designated is known as the “Goole Tax Site”.
Areas so designated are known as “special tax sites” under section 113(3) of FA 2021.