Section 4 | Amount of profits to which corporation tax rates applied

(1)In the calculation under paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 18 to FA 1998 of the amount of corporation tax payable for an accounting period of a company, the first step is to apply the rate or rates of corporation tax applicable to the profits of the company of the period on which tax is chargeable.

(2)The profits of a company of an accounting period on which corporation tax is chargeable (in this Act referred to as the company's taxable total profits of the period) are found as follows—

Step 1Find the company's total profits of the period (see subsection (3)).

Step 2Deduct from the result of Step 1 any amounts which can be relieved against the company's total profits of the period.

(3)To find a company's total profits of an accounting period take the following steps.

Step 1Find the amount in respect of which the company is chargeable for the period under the charge to corporation tax on income after any reduction required to give effect to relief from tax.

Step 2Add to the result of Step 1 any amount to be included in respect of chargeable gains in the company's total profits of the accounting period (see section 8 of TCGA 1992) after any reduction required to give effect to relief from tax.

(4)Subsections (2) and (3) are subject to the provisions of the Corporation Tax Acts.