CTM21310 | ACT: FID: foreign profits: matching FID with distributable foreign profit (DFP): outline
From HM Revenue & Customs · Company Taxation Manual
ICTA88/S246J to ICTA88/S246M
If a company could match on a pound for pound basis an FID paid with its own DFP or that of a subsidiary, the company could obtain repayment of surplus ACT.
Such matching was the first stage of a two-stage process (see CTM21405).