HM Treasury

Consultations & legislation

Controlled Foreign Companies (CFC) reform

Issued:  29 November 2010

Open date:  29 November 2010

Close date:  22 February 2011

The Government is currently examining options to reform the UK’s Controlled Foreign Companies (CFC) rules

The Government is consulting on new Controlled Foreign Company (CFC) rules to be introduced in Finance Bill 2012. In the meantime, interim improvements to the existing CFC rules will be introduced in Finance Bill 2011.

If you are not already on the distribution list and would like to be informed of CFC updates then please email Robert Edwards.

The Government is consulting on proposals for CFC rules, in particular for monetary assets and intellectual property.

The Government has published Corporate Tax Reform: Delivering a More Competitive System.  Further information on this document is available on the Corporate Tax Reform page.

As part of this document, the consultation on CFC reform included in this document has been made available here:

Working Groups

Working Groups of representatives from businesses have been established to complement wider consultation on CFC reform and to discuss options and proposals in more detail. Lists of members are provided below. The first working group meetings are scheduled for January.

CFC Monetary Assets working group

CFC intellectual property working group

CFC Property working group

CFC Insurance working group

CFC Banking working group

CFC interim improvements

Contact us

To respond to the consultation on CFC reform please use the contact details outlined below.

E-mail:

Post

Jennifer Payne or Robert Edwards

CT Reform
Corporate Tax Team
HM Treasury
1 Horse Guards Road
London
SW1A 2HQ

Further engagement

Parties interested in involvement in any part of the corporate tax reform consultation can find further information in the engagement strategy Chapter 5: The Corporate Tax Road Map.

The Government held open events in HM Treasury on corporate tax reform on:

Slides from these events are available below:

  • Slides from the events on corporate tax reform (PDF 266KB)
  • There are no plans for further open events at this stage. Further events will be announced as appropriate.

    If you would like to share your views on any area of corporate tax reform, please contact the HM Treasury representative for that area or email corporatetaxreform@hmtreasury.gsi.gov.uk.

    Strategic overview of all elements of the corporate tax reform consultation will be provided by a Corporate Tax Road Map liaison committee and this will replace the CFC liaison committee.  Details of this committee, when established, and minutes of committee meetings will be available on the corporate tax reform page.

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