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CTM81505 | Groups: group relief: surrendering company not UK resident: companies affected

From HM Revenue & Customs · Company Taxation Manual

Who can claim

The extension to group relief can be claimed by:

  • a UK resident company of which the surrendering company is a 75% subsidiary; or

  • any other UK resident 75% subsidiary of such a UK parent company.

Where the surrendering company is a 75% subsidiary of more than one UK resident company, then a loss may be claimed under the new rules by any of those companies (or by any other UK resident 75% subsidiary of those companies).

The definition of a 75% subsidiary is the same as that used for the existing group relief rules which is in CTA10/S1154(3). There is detailed guidance at CTM80510.

Who can surrender

A foreign 75% subsidiary of a qualifying claimant company with a foreign tax loss (CTM81520) where that subsidiary:

  • is either resident in the European Economic Area (EEA); or

  • is not resident in any EEA territory but is carrying on a trade in an EEA territory through a permanent establishment and the loss was incurred in that permanent establishment.

Losses attributable to a UK permanent establishment of the surrendering company are excluded from the new rules. The existing group relief rules continue to apply to such losses, (CTM80310).