CTM01110 - Corporation Tax: introduction: definition of company profits
CTA09/S2 (2)
The profits of a company resident in the UK which are chargeable to CT for any accounting period are:
- its income for that accounting period, except
- distributions which are exempt by virtue of CTA09/PART9A (see below - this in essence exempts domestic distributions received, as well as many foreign distributions),
plus
- its chargeable gains for that period.
So, for CT, ‘income’ and ‘profits’ are not interchangeable terms.
CTA09/PART9A deals with the treatment of distributions in the hands of a company recipient. It covers both domestic and foreign distributions received, and exempts them with certain limited exceptions. It was introduced by FA09/SCH14 as part of the major change in treatment of foreign distributions. Previously the exemption for domestic distributions was at ICTA88/S208, which was briefly CTA09/S1285 before FA09/SCH14 came into effect.