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Complete Text of Finance Bill on the Parliamentary website
Government Amendments and Government New Clauses
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Clause 1: Rates of Tobacco Products Duty
Clause 2: Rates of Duty on Cider
Clause 3: Duty on Beverages made with Spirits to be at Spirits Rate
Clause 4: Reduced Rates of Duty on Beer from Small Breweries
Clause 5: Biodiesel
Clause 6: Regulating Trade in Rebated Heavy Oil
Clause 7: Fuel Substitutes
Clause 8: Amusement Machine Licence Duty: Excepted Machines
Clause 9: Amusement Machine Licence Duty: Rates of Duty
Clause 10: Rates of Gaming Duty
Clause 11: Gaming Duty: to be chargeable in respect of Sic Bo and Three Card Poker
Clause 12: Pool Betting Duty
Clause 13: General Betting Duty (spread bets)
Clause 14: General Betting Duty: Overseas bet-brokers
Clause 15: Cabs registered on or after 1 March 2001: Rates of Duty
Clause 16: Vans registered on or after 1 March 2001: Rates of Duty
Clause 17: Disclosure of information for Vehicle Excise Duty exemptions
Clause 18: Motorcycle (and motorcycle trade licences): Rates of Duty
Clause 19: Registered Vehicles etc
Clause 20: Calculating cylinder capacity of vehicles
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Clause 21: Drawback of Excise Duty
Clause 22: VAT: Disallowance on Input Tax where Consideration not paid
Clause 23: Flat Rate Scheme
Clause 24: Invoices
Clause 25: Relief from VAT on an acquisition if importation would attract relief
Clause 26: Charge and rates of Income Tax for 2002-03
Clause 27: Indexed rate bands for 2002-03: Paye deductions etc.
Clause 28:Personal allowance for 2003-04 for those aged under 65
Clause 29: Personal allowances for 2003-04 for those aged 65 or over
Clause 30: Corporation tax - charge and main rate for financial year 2003
Clause 31: Corporation tax - small companies' rate and fraction for financial year 2002
Clause 32: Corporation tax - starting rate and fraction for financial year 2002
Clause 33: Employer-subsidised public transport bus services internal
Clause 34: Car fuel: Calculation of cash equivalent of benefit internal
Clause 35: Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay internal
Clause 36: Exemption of minor benefits: Application to non-cash vouchers internal
Clause 37 and Schedule 6: Minor amendments to Schedule E charge internal
Clause 38: Provision of services through an intermediary: Minor amendments internal
Clause 39: Employee Share Ownership plans: Minor amendments internal
Clause 40: Treatment of deductions from payments to sub-contractors internal
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Clause 41: Reallocation within group of gain or loss accuring under section 179
Clause 42 and Schedule 7: Roll-over of degrouping charge on business assets
Clause 43 and Schedule 8: Exemptions for disposals by companies with substantial shareholding
Clause 44 and Schedule 9: Share Exchanges and company reconstructions
Clause 45: Taper Relief: Holding period for business assets
Clause 46 and Schedule 10: Taper Relief: Minor Amendments
Clause 47: Use of trading losses against chargeable gains
Clause 48: Election to forego roll-over relief on transfer of business
Clause 49: Shares acquired on same day: Election for alternative treatment
Clause 50 and Schedule 11: Deduction of personal losses from gains treated as accruing to settlors
Clause 51: Capital Gains Tax: Variation of dispositions taking effect on death
Clause 52 and Schedule 12: Tax Relief for expenditure on research and development
Clause 53 and Schedules 13 and 14: Tax Relief for expenditure on vaccine research etc.
Clause 54: Gifts of medical supplies and equipment
Clause 55 and Schedule 15: R&D Tax Relief for small and medium sized enterprises: Minor and consequential amendments
Clause 56 and Schedules 16 and 17: Community investment tax relief
Clause 57 and Schedule 18: Relief for Community amateur sports clubs
Clause 58 and Schedule 19: Cars with low carbon dioxide emissions
Clause 59: Expense of hiring cars with low carbon dioxide emissions
Clause 60 and Schedule 20: Plant or machinery for gas refuelling station: First-Year allowances
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Clause 61: Expenditure on green technologies: Leasing
Clause 62 and Schedule 21: First year allowances for expenditure wholly for a ring fence trade
Clause 63 and Schedule 22: Computation of profits: Adjustment on change of basis
Clause 64: Postponement of change to mark to market in certain cases
Clause 65: Election to continue postponement of mark to market
Clause 66: Mark to Market: Miscellaneous amendments
Clause 67: Expenditure involving crime
Clause 68: Qualifying contracts for unallowable purposes
Clause 69: Forward premiums and discounts under currency contracts
Clause 70: Accounting method where rate of interest is reset
Clause 71: Convertible securities etc: Loan relationships
Clause 72: Convertible securities etc: Issuing company not to be connected company
Clause 73: Convertible securities etc: Debtor relationships
Clause 74: Asset-linked loan relationships
Clause 75 and 77: Asset-linked loan relationships involving guaranteed returns & guaranteed returns on transactions involving futures and options
Clause 76: Loan Relationships ceasing to be within section 93 of the Finance Act 1996
Clause 78 and Schedule 23: Forex and exchange gains and losses from loan relationships etc
Clause 79 and Schedule 24: Corporation Tax: Currency
Clause 80: Transitional Provision
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Clause 81 and Schedule 25: Loan Relationships: General amendments
Clause 82 and Schedules 26,27 &28: Derivative contracts
Clause 83 and Schedules 29-30: Gains and losses from intangible fixed assets of company
Clause 84 and Schedule 31: Gains of insurance company from venture capital investment partnership
Clause 85: Lloyd's Underwriters
Clause 86: Life policies etc.: Chargeable events
Clause 87: Extension of power to give effect to double taxation arrangements
Clause 88: Controlled foreign companies: Territorial exclusions from S.748 exemptions
Clause 89: Controlled foreign companies and treaty non-resident companies
Clause 90: Supplementary charge in respect of ring fence trades
Clause 91: Assesment, recovery and postponement of supplementary charge
Clause 92: Supplementary charge: Transitional provisions
Clause 93: Deduction of tax: Payments to exempt bodies etc.
Clause 94: Deduction of tax by persons dealing in financial instruments
Clause 95: Cross-border royalties
Clause 96: Gifts of real property to charity
Clause 97: Gift aid: Election to be treated as if gift made in previous tax year
Clause 98: Films: Restriction of relief to films genuinely intended for theatrical release
Clause 99: Films: Exclusion of deferments from production expenditure
Clause 100: Distributions: Reasonable commercial return for use of principal secured
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Clause 101: References to accounting practice and periods of account
Clause 102: Discounted securities etc
Clause 103: Financial trading stock
Clause 104: Valuation of trading stock on transfer of trade
Clause 105: Banks etc. in compulsory liquidation
Clause 106: Manufactured dividends and interest
Clause 107 and Schedule 33: Venture capital trusts
Clause 108: Land in disadvantaged areas
Clause 109 and Schedule 34: Withdrawal of group relief
Clause 110: Restriction of relief for company acquisitions
Clause 111 and Schedule 35: Withdrawal of relief for company acquisitions
Clause 112: Penalties for late stamping
Clause 113: Contracts for the sale of an estate or interest in land chargeable as conveyances
Clause 114 and Schedule 36: Abolition of stamp duty on instruments relating to goodwill
Clause 115: IHT: Rate bands
Clause 116: IHT: Powers over, or exercisable in relation to, settled property or a settlement
Clause 117: IHT: Variation of dispositions taking effect on death
Clause 118: Air passenger duty: Extension of area to which EEA rates apply
Clause 119: Landfill tax: Rate
Clause 120: Climate change levy: Electricity produced in combined heat and power station
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Clause 121: Climate change levy: Certification requirement
Clause 122: Climate change levy: Exemption for renewable sources
Clause 123: Climate change levy: Electricity produced from coal mine methane
Clause 124: Climate change levy: Incorrect certificates
Clause 125: Climate change levy: Invoices incorrectly showing levy due
Clause 126: Aggregates levy: Transitional relief for Northern Ireland
Clause 127: Aggregates levy: Amendments to provisions exempting spoil etc.
Clause 128: Aggregates levy: Crushing and cutting rock
Clause 129: Aggregates levy: Miscellaneous amendments
Clause 130: Aggregates levy: Amendments to provisions about civil penalties
Clause 131: Recovery of taxes etc. due in other EU member states
Clause 132: Mandatory E-filing
Clause 133: Use of electronic communicators under other provisions
Clause 134: Lorry road-user charge
Clause 135: Authority of Bank of England to discharge functions in place of Bank of Ireland
Clause 136: Closure of UK gilts registers kept in Ireland
Clause 137: Administration of UK gilts
Clauses 138, 139 and 140: Supplementary clauses