The Finance Act
Official Report of the House of Commons (Hansard) - includes the Finance Bill debates in the following editions:
Finance Bill in Standing Committee F
Archive of debates in the House of Commons Standing Committee F on the Finance Bill between May 14th 2002 and June 25th 2002.
Budget 2002 - Frequently Asked Questions
An FAQs page from the Inland Revenue explaining the content of the Finance Bill 2002.
Explanatory notes and clauses: Finance Bill 2002 (HM Treasury)
These are available through the Government webarchive at the links in the panel below:
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Clauses 1-20
- 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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Clauses 21-40
- 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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Clauses 41-60
- Clause 41: Reallocation within group of gain or loss accruing 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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Clauses 61-80
- 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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Clauses 81-100
- 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 (2.68MB) please note, this file will open in PDF format.
- 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: Assessment, 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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Clauses 101-120
- 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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Clauses 121-140
- 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
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