CTM08330 - Corporation Tax: management expenses: directors' remuneration
皇冠体育app fact that sums of money are paid to the directors of a 鈥榗ompany with investment business鈥� as remuneration does not mean conclusively that they qualify as management expenses under CTA09/S1219. When you decide whether such sums are allowable you should take broadly the same approach as you do for trading companies, but bear in mind there is no explicit 鈥榳holly and exclusively鈥� test in Section 1219.皇冠体育appre is guidance on this at CTM08170. 皇冠体育appre is guidance on the remuneration of directors and close relatives of directors at BIM47105.
You have to consider whether the sums of directors鈥� remuneration were expenses of management. 皇冠体育app tax case of L G Berry Investments Ltd v Attwooll 41TC547 is about whether directors鈥� fees were allowable as expenses of management. In this case Plowman J said the Special Commissioners were entitled to examine whether a management expense was 鈥榬easonable, having regard to the requirements of the company鈥檚 business and, in the case of directors鈥� fees or other payments for services, to the actual services rendered to the company鈥�. 皇冠体育app legislation in that case was ITA52/S425 (1), which included provisions similar to both CTA09/S1219 and CTA09/S1218B.
皇冠体育appre is guidance at CTM08470 on the timing of the deduction for emoluments and the application of CTA09/S1249 and S1250 .