ICI Plc v Colmer (Inspector of Taxes): HL 15 Mar 1996

A ‘Holding company’ under the Act meant a company resident in the UK; A reference was made of the issues to the European Court.

Citations:

Times 15-Mar-1996

Statutes:

Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 285(5)(b)

Citing:

Appeal fromImperial Chemical Industries v Colmer (Inspector of Taxes) CA 9-Aug-1993
Group tax relief was available despite other subsidiary companies within the same group being offshore. . .

Cited by:

Reference fromImperial Chemical Industries v Colmer ECJ 16-Jul-1998
A member state was not allowed to impose a tax regime which discriminated against the subsidiaries of a company based in that state where they were based in other member states, but discrimination was allowed where the subsidiaries were based . .
Reference fromMetallgesellschaft Ltd and Others v Inland Revenue Commissioners and Another Hoechst Ag and Another v Same ECJ 8-Mar-2001
The British law which meant that non-resident parent companies of British based businesses were not able to recover interest on payments of advance corporation tax, was discriminatory against other European based companies. Accordingly the law was . .
See AlsoPickford v Imperial Chemical Industries Plc HL 30-Jun-1998
In the absence of conclusive evidence establishing a cause of a condition, the judge was free to find that causation was not established and that the claim was lost. There was no necessary obligation on an employer to have procedures which might . .
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Updated: 08 April 2022; Ref: scu.81593