Statutory Instruments
2025 No. 1080
CORPORATION TAX
INCOME TAX
The Designation of Special Tax Sites (Flintshire and Wrexham Investment Zone) Regulations 2025
Made
14th October 2025
Laid before the House of Commons
16th October 2025
Coming into force
21st November 2025
The Treasury make these 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 an investment zone 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 an investment zone(2).
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Designation of Special Tax Sites (Flintshire and Wrexham Investment Zone) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 21st November 2025.
(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 sites
2.—(1) The following areas are designated as special areas(3) for the purposes referred to in section 113(1) of the Finance Act 2021—
(a) the areas shown edged and hatched in red on the map entitled “Deeside Special Tax Site” and dated July 2025;
(b) the area shown edged and hatched in red on the map entitled “Warren Hall Special Tax Site” and dated 28th July 2025;
(c) the areas shown edged and hatched in red on the map entitled “Wrexham Industrial Estate, Special Tax Site” and dated 28th July 2025.
(2) The designations made by paragraph (1) take effect on 21st November 2025.
Taiwo Owatemi
Stephen Morgan
Two of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury
14th October 2025
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).
“Investment zone” is defined in section 113(5) of the Finance Act 2021 (“FA 2021”). The relevant investment zone for this designation is the area which is identified edged in blue on the map entitled “Flintshire and Wrexham Investment Zone Tax Sites” and dated 28th July 2025, 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-investment-zones. 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.
Areas so designated are known as “special tax sites” under section 113(3) of FA 2021. The maps referred to in the designations made by regulation 2(1) of these Regulations are all available electronically at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/maps-of-flintshire-and-wrexham-investment-zone-tax-sites. A person unable to access the documents electronically can arrange access to hard copies by inspection free of charge at 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1A 2HQ.