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Restrictions on tax deductibility of loan interest

A detailed guide to the key anti-avoidance rules, by LexisNexis®PSL Tax, with additional practitioner comment from Adam Blakemore and Catherine Richardson of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and Kitty Swanson and Matthew Mortimer of Mayer Brown.

Practitioner view: Hybrid and other mismatch rules – double deduction issues

Practitioner view: The corporate interest expense restriction – risk allocation implications

Practitioner view: The rules recharacterising interest as a distribution – practical issues

Practitioner view: Unallowable purposes – ascertaining purpose

There are a number of anti-avoidance rules that may apply to restrict the tax deductibility of loan interest for a corporate borrower within the charge to UK corporation tax. They are:

  • the loan relationships regime anti-avoidance rule (RAAR);
  • the unallowable purposes rule;
  • the rules recharacterising interest as a distribution;
  • the corporate interest restriction;
  • the transfer pricing rules;
  • the hybrid and other mismatches rules;
  • non-market loans; and
  • the general anti-abuse rule.

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