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House of Commons

Tuesday 16 June 2009

Public Bill Committee Proceedings

Finance Bill

[Eleventh and Twelfth Sittings]

Clause 56 Agreed to.

Mr Stephen Timms

Agreed to  206

Clause  57,  page  27,  line  27,  leave out subsection (2).

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Clause 58 Agreed to.

Schedule 29 Agreed to.

Mr Stephen Timms

Not moved  207

Clause  59,  page  28,  line  16,  after ‘made’ insert ‘under the law of a territory outside

the United Kingdom’.

Mr Greg Hands

Mr Mark Hoban

Mr David Gauke

Not called  217

Clause  59,  page  28,  line  16,  after ‘made’, insert ‘by any taxing authority’.

Mr Stephen Timms

Not called  208

Clause  59,  page  29,  line  6,  after ‘made’ insert ‘under the law of a territory outside

the United Kingdom’.

Clause Agreed to.

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Mr Greg Hands

Mr Mark Hoban

Mr David Gauke

Withdrawn  218

Clause  60,  page  29,  line  34,  after ‘costs’, insert ‘, and

‘(c)
the taxpayer has entered into a scheme or arrangement a main purpose of

which is to secure that the included funding costs are less than the

national funding costs’.’.

Mr Stephen Timms

Agreed to  209

Clause  60,  page  29,  line  36,  leave out ‘paragraph (b) and (c)’ and insert ‘subsection

(3)’.

Mr Stephen Timms

Agreed to  210

Clause  60,  page  30,  line  4,  leave out ‘paragraph (b) and (c) total’ and insert

‘subsection (3) total (before the application of subsection (3B))’.

Mr Stephen Timms

Agreed to  211

Clause  60,  page  30,  leave out lines 11 to 13.

Mr Stephen Timms

Agreed to  212

Clause  60,  page  30,  line  15,  at end insert—

‘“subsection (3) total” means the amount to be taken into account under

subsection (3) for the purposes of section 797(1).’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Clause 61 Agreed to.

Schedule 30 Agreed to.

Clause 62 Agreed to.

Schedule 31 Agreed to.

Clause 63 Agreed to.

Schedule 32 Agreed to.

Clause 64 Agreed to.

Schedule 33 Agreed to.

Clause 65 Agreed to.

Schedule 34 Agreed to.

Clause 66 Agreed to.

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Mr David Gauke

Mr Mark Hoban

Mr Greg Hands

Withdrawn  73

Clause  67,  page  32,  line  6,  leave out ‘12 January’ and insert ‘1 April’.

Mr David Gauke

Mr Mark Hoban

Mr Greg Hands

Not called  74

Clause  67,  page  32,  line  7,  leave out subsections (3) and (4).

Clause Agreed to.

Clauses 68 and 69 Agreed to.

Mr Stephen Timms

Agreed to  213

Clause  70,  page  34,  line  24,  leave out ‘section 105A’ and insert ‘sections 105A and

105B’.

Mr Stephen Timms

Agreed to  214

Clause  70,  page  34,  leave out lines 35 to 37 and insert—

‘(d)
the net amount payable by P in relation to the lease by way of lease

premium is greater than zero.’.

Mr Stephen Timms

Agreed to  215

Clause  70,  page  34,  line  43,  leave out from ‘the’ to end of line 21 on page 35 and

insert ‘net amount payable by P in relation to the lease by way of lease premium.

(3)
For provision about the application of this section in relation to certain

leases with break clauses, see section 105B.

(4)
For the purposes of this section the net amount payable by P in relation

to a lease by way of lease premium is—

(a)
the total amount (if any) that has been paid, or is or will become

payable, by P in relation to the lease by way of lease premium,

less

(b)
any amount within paragraph (a) that has been repaid or is or will

become repayable.

(5)
In this section and section 105B “lease premium” means any premium

payable—

(a)
under a lease, or

(b)
otherwise under the terms on which a lease is granted.

(6)
In the application of this section to Scotland, “premium” includes a

grassum.

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105B
Lease premiums in the case of leases with break clauses

(1)
This section applies to a lease (“the original lease”) that contains one or

more relevant break clauses.

(2)
For the purposes of this section—

(a)
“break clause” means a provision of a lease that gives a person a

right to terminate it so that its term is shorter than it otherwise

would be, and

(b)
a break clause contained in the original lease is “relevant” if the

right to terminate the lease that it confers is capable of being

exercised in such a way that the term of the original lease is 10

years or less.

(3)
For the purposes of section 105A—

(a)
the term of the original lease, and

(b)
the net amount payable by P in relation to the lease by way of

lease premium,


are to be determined on the assumption that any relevant break clause is

exercised in such a way that the term of the lease is as short as possible.

(4)
If a relevant break clause is not in fact exercised in such a way that the

term of the original lease is as short as possible, the parties to the lease

are treated for the purposes of section 105A as if they were parties to

another lease (a “notional lease”) the term of which—

(a)
begins immediately after the time at which the term of the

original lease would have ended, if that break clause had been so

exercised, and

(b)
ends at the time mentioned in subsection (5).

(5)
The term of a notional lease ends—

(a)
at the time the term of the original lease would end, on the

assumption that any relevant break clause that is exercisable only

after the beginning of the term of the notional lease is exercised

in such a way that the term of the original lease is as short as

possible, or

(b)
if earlier, the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the term of the

original lease.

(6)
For the purposes of section 105A, the net amount payable by P in relation

to a notional lease by way of lease premium is, in the case of a notional

lease the term of which ends under paragraph (a) of subsection (5)—

(a)
the net amount that would be payable by P in relation to the

original lease by way of lease premium on the assumption

mentioned in that paragraph, less

(b)
any part of that amount that has already been attributed to a

period in respect of a lease premium under section 105(4B)(b).

(7)
For the purposes of section 105A, the net amount payable by P in relation

to a notional lease by way of lease premium is, in the case of notional

lease the term of which ends under paragraph (b) of subsection (5), the

relevant proportion of—

(a)
the net amount that would be payable by P in relation to the

original lease by way of lease premium, on the assumption that

no break clause is exercised, less

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(b)
any part of that amount that has already been attributed to a

period in respect of a lease premium under section 105(4B)(b).

(8)
In subsection (7) “the relevant proportion” means—

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