Section 74 | Rules for carrying back unrelieved foreign tax

(1)This section sets out the rules mentioned in section 73(1)(b).

(2)The first rule is that—

(a)credit for the excess, or for any remaining balance of the excess, is allowed against corporation tax in respect of a later recent period, before

(b)credit for any of the excess is allowed against corporation tax in respect of any earlier recent period.

(3)The second rule is that, before allowing credit for any of the excess against corporation tax in respect of income of any particular accounting period (“period P”), credit for foreign tax is allowed—

(a)first for foreign tax in respect of the income of period P, other than amounts which are foreign tax as a result of applying section 73(1) to an excess from an accounting period other than period P, and

(b)then for amounts which are foreign tax as a result of applying section 73(1) to an excess from an accounting period before period P.

(4)In subsection (2) “recent period” means an accounting period which is earlier than period A but begins not more than 3 years before period A.