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Finance Bill
This is the text of the Finance Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 7 July 1997.
Finance Bill
ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES
P
ART
I
T
HE WINDFALL TAX
Clause
1.
Charge to windfall tax.
2.
The companies benefitting from windfalls.
3.
Administration of the windfall tax etc.
4.
The windfall tax and profit-related pay.
5.
Interpretation of Part I.
P
ART
II
V
ALUE ADDED TAX AND EXCISE DUTIES
Value added tax
6.
Fuel and power for domestic or charity use.
Alcoholic liquor duties
7.
Rate of duty on spirits.
8.
Rate of duty on beer.
9.
Rates of duty on wine and made-wine.
10.
Rates of duty on cider.
Hydrocarbon oil duties
11.
Rates of hydrocarbon oil duties etc.
Tobacco products duty
12.
Rates of tobacco products duty.
Vehicle excise and registration
13.
Rates of vehicle excise duty.
14.
Payments where vehicle information transmitted electronically.
P
ART
III
I
NCOME TAX AND CORPORATION TAX
Reliefs for interest and private medical insurance
15.
Mortgage interest payments.
16.
Limit on relief for interest for 1998-99.
17.
Withdrawal of relief on medical insurance premiums.
Corporation tax
18.
Rates for financial year 1997.
Distributions, tax credits etc on and after 2nd July 1997
19.
Pension funds no longer entitled to payment of tax credits.
20.
Losses etc not to be set against surplus franked investment income.
21.
Estates in administration: distributions to which s.233(1) applies.
22.
Lloyd's underwriters.
23.
Insurance companies and friendly societies.
Distributions, tax credits etc: avoidance
24.
Taxation of dealers in respect of distributions etc.
25.
Repeal of s.95(5) of the Taxes Act 1988: consequential amendments.
26.
Purchase and sale of securities.
27.
Payments to companies under section 687 of the Taxes Act 1988.
28.
Arrangements to pass on value of tax credit.
29.
Unauthorised unit trusts.
Distributions, tax credits etc in and after 1999-00
30.
Tax credits.
31.
Rates of tax applicable to Schedule F income etc.
32.
Trusts.
33.
Estates of deceased persons in administration.
34.
Tax credits and taxation of distributions: miscellaneous provisions.
35.
Transitional relief for charities etc.
36.
Foreign income dividends.
Gilt-edged securities
37.
Interest to be paid gross.
38.
Paying and collecting agents.
Relief for losses etc
39.
Carry-back of trading losses.
40.
Carry-back of loan relationship deficits.
41.
Restrictions on group relief.
Capital allowances for small and medium-sized businesses
42.
Temporary first-year allowances.
43.
Expenditure of a small company or small business.
Capital allowances and finance leases
44.
Writing-down allowances for finance lessors.
45.
Hire-purchase by finance lessors.
46.
Sale and leaseback etc. using finance leases.
47.
Meaning of "finance lease".
Films
48.
Relief for expenditure on production and acquisition.
P
ART
IV
M
ISCELLANEOUS AND
S
UPPLEMENTAL
Stamp duty
49.
Stamp duty on conveyance or transfer on sale.
Provisional collection of taxes
50.
Statutory effect of resolutions etc.
Supplemental
51.
Interpretation.
52.
Repeals.
53.
Short title.
S
CHEDULES
Schedule 1
-
Quantification of a privatisation windfall.
Schedule 2
-
Administration and collection of windfall tax.
Schedule 3
-
Insurance companies and friendly societies.
Schedule 4
-
Tax credits, taxation of distributions etc.
Part I
-
General.
Part II
-
Insurance companies and Lloyd's underwriters.
Schedule 5
-
Limitation of entitlement to relief under section 35.
Part I
-
Qualifying distributions other than bonus issues.
Part II
-
Bonus issues.
Schedule 6
-
Foreign income dividends.
Schedule 7
-
Restrictions on group relief.
Schedule 8
-
Repeals.
Part I
-
Vehicle licensing: payments where information to be transmitted electronically.
Part II
-
Income tax and corporation tax.
Part III
-
Statutory effect of resolutions etc.
© Parliamentary copyright 1997
Prepared 4 July 1997