Collard (Inspector of Taxes) v Mining and Industrial Holdings Ltd: HL 13 Apr 1989

HL Double taxation relief – UK resident company in receipt of dividends from companies resident abroad – Whether relief by way of credit to be given for foreign taxes on such dividends before or after advance corporation tax in respect of distributions made by it is set against its liability to corporation tax – Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Australia) Order 1968, (S.I. 1968 No.305), Article 19(1); Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970, ss 497(1), 501, 505; Finance Act 1972, 5 85(1), s 100(4) and (6) – Construction of Act – Whether legislative gap to be filled.

[1989] UKHL TC – 62 – 448
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England and Wales

Corporation Tax

Updated: 10 January 2022; Ref: scu.559783